# TMM-EN-2013_TDOR_google - Google Fusion Tables

Name: Ranhi Uhjir
Age: 31
Profession: sex worker
Date: 2008
sort by this date: 01/01/08
Month: 2008
Location data: Gaba, Kampala, Uganda
Place: Kampala
Region: Africa
Country: Uganda
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The case was not taken into court or followed up by the police because of stigma.
Sources: TvT questionnaire research
year: 2008

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2008
sort by this date: 01/01/08
Month: 2008
Location data: Dalian China
Place: Dalian
Region: Asia
Country: China
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organisation Trans China
year: 2008

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2008
sort by this date: 01/01/08
Month: 2008
Location data: Fiji Fiji
Place: Fiji
Region: Oceania
Country: Fiji
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Fiji Transgender Empowerment Network
year: 2008

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2008
sort by this date: 01/01/08
Month: 2008
Location data: Port Area, Manila
Place: Manila
Region: Asia
Country: Philippines
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks:
Sources: The Philippine LGBT Hate Crime Watch
year: 2008

Name: N.N.
Age: 33
Profession: not reported
Date: 05/01/08
sort by this date: 05/01/08
Month: January, 2008
Location data: Araxa, MG Brazil
Place: Araxa, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Stacey Brown
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: 08/01/08
sort by this date: 08/01/08
Month: January, 2008
Location data: Baltimore USA
Place: Baltimore
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: own apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks: Stacey was shot in the head in her own apartment
Sources: TvT project: www.transgenderdor.org and http://tgdor.org
year: 2008

Name: Patricia Murphy
Age: 39
Profession: not reported
Date: 08/01/08
sort by this date: 08/01/08
Month: January, 2008
Location data: Albuquerque USA
Place: Albuquerque
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Patricia was shot several times in the head. Patricia was a person of color (based on photographs published after her death).
Sources: TvT project: www.transgenderdor.org and http://tgdor.org
year: 2008

Name: Sabrina (Wesley Marcio da Silva)
Age: 15
Profession: sex worker
Date: 14/01/08
sort by this date: 14/01/08
Month: January, 2008
Location data: R. Prof. Jose Brandao, Recife, PE Brazil
Place: R. Prof. Jose Brandao, Recife, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Sabrina was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: (Juan Carlos) Guillen Bautista
Age: 17
Profession: not reported
Date: 21/01/08
sort by this date: 21/01/08
Month: January, 2008
Location data: Guanajato Mexico
Place: Guanajato
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location:
Cause: torture
Remarks: The victim was ortured and suffered head injuries.
Sources: TvT project: http://trans.ilga.org/
year: 2008

Name: (Aldolphus) Simmons
Age: 18
Profession: not reported
Date: 21/01/08
sort by this date: 21/01/08
Month: January, 2008
Location data: Charleston USA
Place: Charleston
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a person of color (based on photographs published after death).
Sources: TvT project: www.transgenderdor.org & http://tgdor.org
year: 2008

Name: (Victor Manuel) Albor Camacho
Age: 24
Profession: not reported
Date: 21/01/08
sort by this date: 21/01/08
Month: January, 2008
Location data: Guanajato Mexico
Place: Guanajato
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location:
Cause: torture
Remarks: The victim was ortured and suffered head injuries.
Sources: TvT project: http://trans.ilga.org/
year: 2008

Name: (Freddy Alexander) Gonzales Higuera
Age: 20
Profession: not reported
Date: 22/01/08
sort by this date: 22/01/08
Month: January, 2008
Location data: Maracaibo Venezuela
Place: Maracaibo
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: http://trans.ilga.org/
year: 2008

Name: Miramar
Age: 23
Profession: sex worker
Date: 22/01/08
sort by this date: 22/01/08
Month: January, 2008
Location data: Maracaibo Venezuela
Place: Maracaibo
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Miramar was a sex worker and murdered by a client.
Sources: TvT project: http://trans.ilga.org/
year: 2008

Name: Marcela Borges (Marcelo Arimateia Santana)
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 22/01/08
sort by this date: 22/01/08
Month: January, 2008
Location data: SE Brazil
Place: SE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Fedra
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 22/01/08
sort by this date: 22/01/08
Month: January, 2008
Location data: Kota Kinabalu Malaysia
Place: Kota Kinabalu
Region: Asia
Country: Malaysia
Location: street
Cause: run-over by car
Remarks: Fedra was thrown off a building and then run-over by a car.
Sources: TvT project: www.transgenderdor.org & http://tgegypt.com/?page_id=28
year: 2008

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 26/01/08
sort by this date: 26/01/08
Month: January, 2008
Location data: Jakarta Indonesia
Place: Jakarta
Region: Asia
Country: Indonesia
Location: street
Cause: beaten
Remarks: A group of men killed the victim for trying to steal a motorbike. They surrounded the victim, who was described as a trans person punched the victim and hit the victim with a spade. The group later burned the victim's remains.
Sources: TvT project: The Jakarta Post, 26.01.2008
year: 2008

Name: Sarita (Tiago Frankelino de Lima)
Age: 21
Profession: sex worker
Date: 29/01/08
sort by this date: 29/01/08
Month: January, 2008
Location data: Rua Ibirama, Recife, PE Brazil
Place: Rua Ibirama, Recife, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Sarita was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: (Ali)
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: January, 2008
sort by this date: 31/01/08
Month: January, 2008
Location data: Basra, Iraq Iraq
Place: Basra, Iraq
Region: Asia
Country: Iraq
Location: police station
Cause: shot
Remarks: Shot to death (executed) at a police station. Arrested, humiliated, and executed by state police for being transgender, there is a video of Ali made before she was executed, showing Al-Basra police officers shaving her head and announcing proudly that they are going to execute her and anyone like her.
Sources: TvT project: http://tgegypt.com/?page_id=28
year: 2008

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: January, 2008
sort by this date: 31/01/08
Month: January, 2008
Location data: Basra, Iraq Iraq
Place: Basra, Iraq
Region: Asia
Country: Iraq
Location: police station
Cause: shot
Remarks: Shot to death (executed), arrested, humiliated, and executed by state police for being transgender
Sources: TvT project: http://tgegypt.com/?page_id=28
year: 2008

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: January, 2008
sort by this date: 31/01/08
Month: January, 2008
Location data: Basra, Iraq Iraq
Place: Basra, Iraq
Region: Asia
Country: Iraq
Location: police station
Cause: shot
Remarks: Shot to death (executed), arrested, humiliated, and executed by state police for being transgender
Sources: TvT project: http://tgegypt.com/?page_id=28
year: 2008

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 02/02/08
sort by this date: 02/02/08
Month: February, 2008
Location data: Brasilia, DF Brazil
Place: Brasilia, DF
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Ashley Sweeney
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 04/02/08
sort by this date: 04/02/08
Month: February, 2008
Location data: Detroit USA
Place: Detroit
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: empty lot
Cause: shot
Remarks: Ashley was shot in the head on an empty lot.
Sources: TvT project: www.transgenderdor.org & http://tgdor.org
year: 2008

Name: (Juan Jose) Mejias Jimenez
Age: 35
Profession: not reported
Date: 09/02/08
sort by this date: 09/02/08
Month: February, 2008
Location data: Bristol de Matina, Limon Costa Rica
Place: Bristol de Matina, Limon
Region: Central and South America
Country: Costa Rica
Location: own apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks: Three unknown persons with covered faces entered into the apartment and shot the victim in the chest. The sister heard the shot and went into the house. They shot her in the face, but she survived.
Sources: TvT project: Nación, 10.02.2008
year: 2008

Name: Tamara (Marco Antonio)
Age: 40
Profession: sex worker
Date: 09/02/08
sort by this date: 09/02/08
Month: February, 2008
Location data: Vera Cruz, Ilha de Itaparica, BA Brazil
Place: Vera Cruz, Ilha de Itaparica, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: own apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks: Tamara was a sex worker. She was shot on the veranda of her own apartment.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Bianca (Flavio Oliveira)
Age: 20
Profession: sex worker
Date: 10/02/08
sort by this date: 10/02/08
Month: February, 2008
Location data: Rua Falcao Filho, Campinas, SP Brazil
Place: Rua Falcao Filho, Campinas, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: own apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks: Bianca was a sex worker. She was shot in her own apartment by a 24 year-old military police man
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Sanesha Stewart
Age: 25
Profession: not reported
Date: 10/02/08
sort by this date: 10/02/08
Month: February, 2008
Location data: New York City USA
Place: New York City
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was a person of color (based on photographs published after death).
Sources: TvT project: www.transgenderdor.org & http://tgdor.org
year: 2008

Name: (Genivaldo Sousa)
Age: 31
Profession: sex worker
Date: 10/02/08
sort by this date: 10/02/08
Month: February, 2008
Location data: Av. Encanta Moca, Recife, PE Brazil
Place: Av. Encanta Moca, Recife, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: beauty salon
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker. She was killed in a beauty salon by a former client of 23 years of age, who said there had been an argument around 20 Reais.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Rosana (Joel Barros)
Age: 18
Profession: sex worker
Date: 11/02/08
sort by this date: 11/02/08
Month: February, 2008
Location data: R. Des. João Paes, Recife, PE Brazil
Place: R. Des. João Paes, Recife, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Rosana was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Linete (Aloisio Lima)
Age: 24
Profession: sex worker
Date: 11/02/08
sort by this date: 11/02/08
Month: February, 2008
Location data: Av. Conselheiro Aguiar, Recife, PE Brazil
Place: Av. Conselheiro Aguiar, Recife, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Linete was a sex worker. According to her sister, she witnessed another crime against a travesti earlier in the same year, and the killing might have been related.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Babily
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 11/02/08
sort by this date: 11/02/08
Month: February, 2008
Location data: MT Brazil
Place: MT
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: burned
Remarks: Babily was a sex worker
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Leticia King
Age: 15
Profession: not reported
Date: 12/02/08
sort by this date: 12/02/08
Month: February, 2008
Location data: Oxnard USA
Place: Oxnard
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: school
Cause: shot
Remarks: Leticia was shot twice in the head by a class mate in front of the whole class.
Sources: TvT project: www.transgenderdor.org & http://tgdor.or
year: 2008

Name: N.N.
Age: 17
Profession: sex worker
Date: 12/02/08
sort by this date: 12/02/08
Month: February, 2008
Location data: Recife, PE Brazil
Place: Recife, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 14/02/08
sort by this date: 14/02/08
Month: February, 2008
Location data: Buenos Aires Argentina
Place: Buenos Aires
Region: Central and South America
Country: Argentina
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The victim's body was found with several lesions, wrapped in a carpet.
Sources: TvT project: http://trans.ilga.org/
year: 2008

Name: (Migdonio) Zalazar Aranda
Age: 26
Profession: sex worker
Date: 16/02/08
sort by this date: 16/02/08
Month: February, 2008
Location data: Fernando de la Mora Paraguay
Place: Fernando de la Mora
Region: Central and South America
Country: Paraguay
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker and murdered by a client.
Sources: TvT project: http://trans.ilga.org/
year: 2008

Name: Gigiane (Agnaldo Silva Rosario)
Age: 20
Profession: hairdresser, sex worker
Date: 18/02/08
sort by this date: 18/02/08
Month: February, 2008
Location data: Pituacu, Salvador, BA Brazil
Place: Pituacu, Salvador, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Gigiane was a hair-dresser and sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Raymond Sheehan
Age: 49
Profession: police officer
Date: 18/02/08
sort by this date: 18/02/08
Month: February, 2008
Location data: New York City USA
Place: New York City
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a police officer shot to death by 'his' wife because of so-called cross-dressing.
Sources: TvT project: NY Daily News, 17.12.2008
year: 2008

Name: Luna
Age: 42
Profession: sex worker
Date: 20/02/08
sort by this date: 20/02/08
Month: February, 2008
Location data: Lisbon Portugal
Place: Lisbon
Region: Europe
Country: Portugal
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Luna was a sex worker. She was severely injured and abandoned in garbage dumpster.
Sources: TvT project: TGEU List, Panteras Rosas blog
year: 2008

Name: Beyonce Williams Jr.
Age: 17
Profession: not reported
Date: 22/02/08
sort by this date: 22/02/08
Month: February, 2008
Location data: Fort Lauderdale USA
Place: Fort Lauderdale
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a person of color (based on photographs published after death).
Sources: TvT project: www.transgenderdor.org, http://tgdor.org
year: 2008

Name: Luciana (Luiz Neves)
Age: 43
Profession: sex worker
Date: 22/02/08
sort by this date: 22/02/08
Month: February, 2008
Location data: Brasilia, DF Brazil
Place: Brasilia, DF
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: own apartment
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Luciana was a sex worker. She was humiliated, tortured and knifed in her own apartment. The travesti Juliana Brasil, 23, was also attacked and survived feigning dead. The perpetrators were three young men aged 20, 18 and 25.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: La Brayan (Brayan Mulato Polo)
Age: 17
Profession: not reported
Date: February, 2008
sort by this date: 28/02/08
Month: February, 2008
Location data: Santiago de Cali Colombia
Place: Santiago de Cali
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location: market
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Observatorio Ciudadano Trans
year: 2008

Name: Claudete (Geovaldo Gomes de Oliveira)
Age: 33
Profession: mason
Date: 03/03/08
sort by this date: 03/03/08
Month: March, 2008
Location data: Alto do Mateus, Joao Pessoa, PB Brazil
Place: Alto do Mateus, Joao Pessoa, PB
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stoned
Remarks: Claudete was a mason. She was killed by an 18 year-old man.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Camila Brasil (Ubiratan Cardoso Nunes)
Age: 32
Profession: sex worker, stylist
Date: 09/03/08
sort by this date: 09/03/08
Month: March, 2008
Location data: Mae Luiza, Natal, RN Brazil
Place: Mae Luiza, Natal, RN
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: own car
Cause: shot
Remarks: Camila was a sex worker and stylist. She was shot twice in her own car. The 24 year-old porter and sex worker Leejefferson Souza da Silva Barbosa confessed the crime. He told the police having had a relationship with Camila and killed her because she had threatened and stalked by her.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Debora Mancini
Age: 36
Profession: sex worker
Date: 13/03/08
sort by this date: 13/03/08
Month: March, 2008
Location data: R. Ary Coelho de Oliveira, Campo Grande, MS Brazil
Place: R. Ary Coelho de Oliveira, Campo Grande, MS
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Debora was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Jai Jilang
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 16/03/08
sort by this date: 16/03/08
Month: March, 2008
Location data: Police Headquarters in Jolo town, Mindanao
Place: Jolo town
Region: Asia
Country: Philippines
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim was stabbed and clubbed to death inside the Police headquarters in Jolo town.
Sources: The Philippine LGBT Hate Crime Watch
year: 2008

Name: Romeo Lim
Age: 25
Profession: salon owner
Date: 22/03/08
sort by this date: 22/03/08
Month: March, 2008
Location data: Jolo town, Sulu, Mindao, Philippines
Place: Jolo town, Sulu
Region: Asia
Country: Philippines
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: The Philippine LGBT Hate Crime Watch
year: 2008

Name: Darlyn (Carlos Didier Acevedo Ramirez)
Age: 19
Profession: sex worker
Date: 23/03/08
sort by this date: 23/03/08
Month: March, 2008
Location data: Calle 70, Santiago de Cali Colombia
Place: Calle 70, Santiago de Cali
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Darlyn was a sex worker. She was stabbed by two men.
Sources: TvT project: http://trans.ilga.org/; TvT partner organization Observatorio Ciudadano Trans
year: 2008

Name: (Jef)
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 25/03/08
sort by this date: 25/03/08
Month: March, 2008
Location data: Laguna, SC Brazil
Place: Laguna, SC
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker. She was killed by a 27 year-old truck driver.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Rose Osbourne
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 25/03/08
sort by this date: 25/03/08
Month: March, 2008
Location data: Broadway Avenue, Winnipeg, Canada
Place: Winnipeg
Region: North America
Country: Canada
Location: apartment
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The victim was an indigenous person (First Nations) and people from her community suspected that her gender identity played a role in her death.
Sources: TvT project: Xtra!, 28.04.2008
year: 2008

Name: (Erick de Jesus) Mendoza Cruz
Age: 22
Profession: not reported
Date: 29/03/08
sort by this date: 29/03/08
Month: March, 2008
Location data: Barranquilla Colombia
Place: Barranquilla
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was shot to death by retired police man.
Sources: TvT project: El Heraldo
year: 2008

Name: (Willis Argemiro) Alarcon Badillo
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: 29/03/08
sort by this date: 29/03/08
Month: March, 2008
Location data: Barranquilla Colombia
Place: Barranquilla
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was shot to death by retired police man.
Sources: TvT project: El Heraldo
year: 2008

Name: Maia
Age: 18
Profession: sex worker
Date: 30/03/08
sort by this date: 30/03/08
Month: March, 2008
Location data: Manaus, AM Brazil
Place: Manaus, AM
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Maia was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Carla (Wilson Sousa)
Age: 45
Profession: sex worker
Date: 03/04/08
sort by this date: 03/04/08
Month: April, 2008
Location data: Sorrisa, MT Brazil
Place: Sorrisa, MT
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Carla was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Sabrina
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 09/04/08
sort by this date: 09/04/08
Month: April, 2008
Location data: R. Afranio de Melo Franco, Uberaba, MG Brazil
Place: R. Afranio de Melo Franco, Uberaba, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Sabrina was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Lloyd Nixon
Age: 45
Profession: not reported
Date: 16/04/08
sort by this date: 16/04/08
Month: April, 2008
Location data: West Palm Beach USA
Place: West Palm Beach
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Lloyd was repeatedly struck on the head with a brick.
Sources: TvT project: www.transgenderdor.org, http://tgdor.org
year: 2008

Name: Paulinha (Herbert Silva)
Age: 25
Profession: sex worker
Date: 18/04/08
sort by this date: 18/04/08
Month: April, 2008
Location data: Feira de Santana, BA Brazil
Place: Feira de Santana, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street (hospital)
Cause: dragged to death
Remarks: Paulinha was a sex worker. She was dragged for more than 50 meters, suffering wounds on the head and face. She died in hospital.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Paty (Ricardo Rodrigues)
Age: 41
Profession: sex worker
Date: 29/04/08
sort by this date: 29/04/08
Month: April, 2008
Location data: Praia de Itaparica, Vila Velha, ES Brazil
Place: Praia de Itaparica, Vila Velha, ES
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Paty was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: not reported
sort by this date: 30/04/08
Month: April, 2008
Location data: Itaquaquecetuba, SP Brazil
Place: Itaquaquecetuba, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: railway tracks
Cause: dismembered
Remarks: The victim was tied at hands and feet and put on a railway track. A train passed over her and killed her.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Tahili
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 08/05/08
sort by this date: 08/05/08
Month: May, 2008
Location data: Santiago de Cali Colombia
Place: Santiago de Cali
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Tahili was a sex worker. She was shot and left on a highway.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Observatorio Ciudadano Trans
year: 2008

Name: Veronica
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 08/05/08
sort by this date: 08/05/08
Month: May, 2008
Location data: Santiago de Cali, Calle 21 Colombia
Place: Santiago de Cali, Calle 21
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location: street
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Veronica was a sex worker. She was stabbed to death with 17 stabs. The killing happened in the city center.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Observatorio Ciudadano Trans
year: 2008

Name: Jessica Zambrano
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 10/05/08
sort by this date: 10/05/08
Month: May, 2008
Location data: Barranquilla Colombia
Place: Barranquilla
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: El Heraldo
year: 2008

Name: N.N.
Age: 22
Profession: not reported
Date: 15/05/08
sort by this date: 15/05/08
Month: May, 2008
Location data: Guanajato Mexico
Place: Guanajato
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: field
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim was beaten to death and then abandoned in a field.
Sources: TvT project: http://trans.ilga.org/
year: 2008

Name: Jessica Hoyos Garcia
Age: 23
Profession: not reported
Date: 15/05/08
sort by this date: 15/05/08
Month: May, 2008
Location data: Pereira Colombia
Place: Pereira
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Jessica was shot in the heart by a security guard.
Sources: TvT project: http://trans.ilga.org/
year: 2008

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 17/05/08
sort by this date: 17/05/08
Month: May, 2008
Location data: Av. Indico, Sao Bernardo do Campo, SP Brazil
Place: Av. Indico, Sao Bernardo do Campo, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker. She was shot more than 15 times with at least two different guns, one of which is used exclusively by the police.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Taufia R.
Age: 42
Profession: not reported
Date: 23/05/08
sort by this date: 23/05/08
Month: May, 2008
Location data: Naples Italy
Place: Naples
Region: Europe
Country: Italy
Location: station
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Taufia was stabbed to death at Naples Central Station.
Sources: TvT project: www.sylviarivera.org
year: 2008

Name: Jessica (Cleonis Ferreira de Moraes)
Age: 35
Profession: sex worker
Date: 26/05/08
sort by this date: 26/05/08
Month: May, 2008
Location data: Sao Fransisco, Goiania, GO Brazil
Place: Sao Fransisco, Goiania, GO
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Jessica was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Felicia Melton-Smyth
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 26/05/08
sort by this date: 26/05/08
Month: May, 2008
Location data: Puerto Vallarta Mexico
Place: Puerto Vallarta
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: www.transgenderdor.org & http://tgdor.org
year: 2008

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: May, 2008
sort by this date: 31/05/08
Month: May, 2008
Location data: SP Brazil
Place: SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The victim was from the city of Belo Horizonte.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: N.N.
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: 02/06/08
sort by this date: 02/06/08
Month: June, 2008
Location data: Essen Germany
Place: Essen
Region: Europe
Country: Germany
Location: own apartment
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was described as a transvestite and was stabbed in the own apartment by a 16-year-old boy, who thought the victim was a woman.
Sources: TvT project: Ruhrnachrichten, 02.06.2008
year: 2008

Name: (Walter Antonio) Sorto Medrano
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: 04/06/08
sort by this date: 04/06/08
Month: June, 2008
Location data: Ayutuxtepeque El Salvador
Place: Ayutuxtepeque
Region: Central and South America
Country: El Salvador
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim's nude body was found on the street.
Sources: TvT project: http://trans.ilga.org/
year: 2008

Name: Sisi S. Ö.
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: 04/06/08
sort by this date: 04/06/08
Month: June, 2008
Location data: Izmir, Turkey
Place: Izmir
Region: Europe
Country: Turkey
Location: hospital
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: While walking down a street in Izmir, Sisi was attacked and stabbed by a madman. She died in hospital.
Sources: TvT partner organization Trans X
year: 2008

Name: Cheiro (Carlos Araujo)
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 11/06/08
sort by this date: 11/06/08
Month: June, 2008
Location data: Tres Lagoas, MS Brazil
Place: Tres Lagoas, MS
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: hospital
Cause: stoned
Remarks: Cheiro was from Vila Haro. On 7 June she was attacked with stones and clubs. She died in hospital. The 27 year-old R.C. was arrested and charged with murder.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 14/06/08
sort by this date: 14/06/08
Month: June, 2008
Location data: Manila Philippines
Place: Manila
Region: Asia
Country: Philippines
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was raped and then stabbed to death.
Sources: The Philippine LGBT Hate Crime Watch
year: 2008

Name: Carolina Tapuyo Mendoza
Age: 25
Profession: not reported
Date: 15/06/08
sort by this date: 15/06/08
Month: June, 2008
Location data: Barcelona Venezuela
Place: Barcelona
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Carolina was shot with a shotgun, whereby her lag was destroyed.
Sources: TvT project: http://trans.ilga.org/
year: 2008

Name: N.N.
Age: 25
Profession: not reported
Date: 18/06/08
sort by this date: 18/06/08
Month: June, 2008
Location data: San Jose Costa Rica
Place: San Jose
Region: Central and South America
Country: Costa Rica
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was found half-naked.
Sources: TvT project: La Prensa, 19.06.2008
year: 2008

Name: (Abdul Khalid) Othman
Age: 61
Profession: not reported
Date: 19/06/08
sort by this date: 19/06/08
Month: June, 2008
Location data: Singapore
Place:
Region: Asia
Country: Singapore
Location: own apartment
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The victim was killed in the own apartment.
Sources: TvT project: Aussie Pete (Singapore News Portal)
year: 2008

Name: (Alberto Antonio) Triana
Age: 38
Profession: not reported
Date: 22/06/08
sort by this date: 22/06/08
Month: June, 2008
Location data: Caracas Venezuela
Place: Caracas
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The body was left abandoned on the street.
Sources: TvT project: http://trans.ilga.org/
year: 2008

Name: Kelly (Luiz Matos)
Age: 21
Profession: sex worker
Date: 23/06/08
sort by this date: 23/06/08
Month: June, 2008
Location data: Avenida Recife, Bairro Ipsep, Recife, PE Brazil
Place: Avenida Recife, Bairro Ipsep, Recife, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Kelly was a sex worker. She was working on the street when a car stopped and a person shot Kelly in the head, back and leg.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Nathaly Novoa Guerrero
Age: 32
Profession: not reported
Date: 23/06/08
sort by this date: 23/06/08
Month: June, 2008
Location data: San Jose Costa Rica
Place: San Jose
Region: Central and South America
Country: Costa Rica
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: http://trans.ilga.org/
year: 2008

Name: Silvana Berisha
Age: 31
Profession: sex worker
Date: 24/06/08
sort by this date: 24/06/08
Month: June, 2008
Location data: Hamburg Germany
Place: Hamburg
Region: Europe
Country: Germany
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Silvana was a migrant, working in the sex industry. In January 2009, the perpetrator -- a 19-year-old man -- was brought to court. The perpetrator stabbed Silvana 39 times with a 30cm-long knife. When he saw that his victim was still moving, the perpetrator smashed the head of the victim with a video recorder. The judge at the Hamburg court referred to the perpetrator’s 'absolute desire to exterminate' and described the murder as 'extremely brutal', but declared there was 'no motive'. The perpetrator was sentenced to seven years for manslaughter.
Sources: TvT project: Tagesspiegel 26.01.2009
year: 2008

Name: (Jose Guillermo) Velasquez
Age: 24
Profession: waitress
Date: 26/06/08
sort by this date: 26/06/08
Month: June, 2008
Location data: Mazatenango Guatemala
Place: Mazatenango
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was shot to death with two shots: one in the head and another in the back. She worked as a waitress in a bar in the so-called red light district. The police have ruled out theft as a motive because none of the victim’s possessions were missing.
Sources: TvT project: El Quetzalteco, 28.06.2008
year: 2008

Name: Soraia (Jose Rodeck)
Age: 27
Profession: sex worker
Date: 26/06/08
sort by this date: 26/06/08
Month: June, 2008
Location data: Avenida Indianopolis, Sao Paulo, SP Brazil
Place: Avenida Indianopolis, Sao Paulo, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Soraia was a sex worker. She had come to Sao Paulo from Belem a few months earlier. According to witnesses, a car drew near and Soraia started discussing with the driver. The driver stepped out of the car and started slapping Soraia, who started running and was shot in the neck.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: N.N.
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: June, 2008
sort by this date: 30/06/08
Month: June, 2008
Location data: Manila Philippines
Place: Manila
Region: Asia
Country: Philippines
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was stabbed multiple times by men who allegedly got disturbed after they found out that she was trans.
Sources: TvT partner organization: STRAP
year: 2008

Name: Lupita Cabanas
Age: 17
Profession: sex worker
Date: 01/07/08
sort by this date: 01/07/08
Month: July, 2008
Location data: Asuncion Paraguay
Place: Asuncion
Region: Central and South America
Country: Paraguay
Location: car
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker and inside a car by a client.
Sources: TvT project: http://trans.ilga.org/
year: 2008

Name: Ebony (Rodney) Whitaker
Age: 21
Profession: sex worker
Date: 01/07/08
sort by this date: 01/07/08
Month: July, 2008
Location data: Memphis USA
Place: Memphis
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: parking lot
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker and found partially stripped naked in a parking lot. The victim was a person of color (based on photographs published after death).
Sources: TvT project: www.transgenderdor.org & http://tgdor.org
year: 2008

Name: Juliana
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 02/07/08
sort by this date: 02/07/08
Month: July, 2008
Location data: Rodovia Amaral Peixoto, Macae, RJ Brazil
Place: Rodovia Amaral Peixoto, Macae, RJ
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Juliana was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008; Tabelas 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Daisy Dube
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 02/07/08
sort by this date: 02/07/08
Month: July, 2008
Location data: Johannesburg South Africa
Place: Johannesburg
Region: Africa
Country: South Africa
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Daisy Dube identified as drag queen and was shot to death in an execution style. A close friend, who was out that evening with Daisy confirmed the motivation for the killing was their gender identity and that they were not willing to subject themselves to ridicule. The shooting resulted after Daisy and three friends told three men to stop calling them ‘isitabane’. Isitabane is an isiZulu term meaning hermaphrodite and is usually used in a derogatory way to refer to LGBT people in townships.
Sources: TvT project: ACAS Bulletin 83, September 2009
year: 2008

Name: (Wellington Paulo da Silva)
Age: 25
Profession: sex worker
Date: 10/07/08
sort by this date: 10/07/08
Month: July, 2008
Location data: Imbiribeira, Recife, PE Brazil
Place: Imbiribeira, Recife, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker. She was shot by two men, one of whom is aged 29 and was caught red-handed.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Laisa Balanta Castillo
Age: 28
Profession: not reported
Date: 10/07/08
sort by this date: 10/07/08
Month: July, 2008
Location data: Popoyan Colombia
Place: Popoyan
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location: own apartment
Cause: grenade explosion
Remarks: It is suspected that the victim died from the explosion of a grenade that was thrown into her room.
Sources: TvT project: http://trans.ilga.org/
year: 2008

Name: Rosa Pazos
Age: 47
Profession: activist
Date: 11/07/08
sort by this date: 11/07/08
Month: July, 2008
Location data: Seville Spain
Place: Seville
Region: Europe
Country: Spain
Location: own apartment
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Rosa was an activist and had received death threats before. She was killed in her own apartment
Sources: TvT project: http://trans.ilga.org/ & www.transgenderdor.org & http://tgdor.org
year: 2008

Name: Marcelle Delender
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 11/07/08
sort by this date: 11/07/08
Month: July, 2008
Location data: Rio das Ostras, RJ Brazil
Place: Rio das Ostras, RJ
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Marcelle was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Rhama (Rhamat) Hidayat
Age: 19
Profession: activist
Date: 13/07/08
sort by this date: 13/07/08
Month: July, 2008
Location data: Depok, West Java, Indonesia
Place: Depok
Region: Asia
Country: Indonesia
Location: university campus
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Rhama was an activist for street children and was well-known as a participant of a "trans ontest" which was aired on TV.
Sources: TvT project: The Jakarta Post 20.07.2008
year: 2008

Name: (Juan Carlos) Aucalle Coronel
Age: 35
Profession: not reported
Date: 14/07/08
sort by this date: 14/07/08
Month: July, 2008
Location data: Lombardi Italy
Place: Lombardi
Region: Europe
Country: Italy
Location: street
Cause: run-over by car
Remarks: The victim was severely beaten causing fractures to the head and face, then run over by a car.
Sources: TvT project: www.transgenderdor.org & http://tgdor.org
year: 2008

Name: Angie Zapata
Age: 18
Profession: beautician
Date: 17/07/08
sort by this date: 17/07/08
Month: July, 2008
Location data: Greeley, CO USA
Place: Greeley, CO
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: own apartment
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Angie was a beautician. She was beaten on the head in her own apartment with a fire extinguisher over and over and over again until 'it stopped making a noise', the perpetrator said. Angie was a person of color (based on photographs published after her death).
Sources: TvT project: www.transgenderdor.org & http://tgdor.org
year: 2008

Name: Jaylynn L. Namauu
Age: 35
Profession: not reported
Date: 17/07/08
sort by this date: 17/07/08
Month: July, 2008
Location data: Makiki Honolulu USA
Place: Makiki Honolulu
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: street
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Jaylynn was homeless and killed in the street.
Sources: TvT project: www.transgenderdor.org & http://tgdor.org
year: 2008

Name: Carlina Campuzano
Age: 52
Profession: not reported
Date: 18/07/08
sort by this date: 18/07/08
Month: July, 2008
Location data: Bogota Colombia
Place: Bogota
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Carlina suffered nine deep, severe lesions.
Sources: TvT project: http://trans.ilga.org/
year: 2008

Name: Jessica Pullua Cordoba
Age: 27
Profession: not reported
Date: 20/07/08
sort by this date: 20/07/08
Month: July, 2008
Location data: Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires Argentina
Place: Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires
Region: Central and South America
Country: Argentina
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: http://trans.ilga.org/
year: 2008

Name: Samantha Rangel Brandau
Age: 30
Profession: hairdresser
Date: 29/07/08
sort by this date: 29/07/08
Month: July, 2008
Location data: Milan Italy
Place: Milan
Region: Europe
Country: Italy
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Samantha was a hairstylist. She was beaten, gang-raped and stabbed to death.
Sources: TvT project: www.transgenderdor.org & http://tgdor.org
year: 2008

Name: Alessandra (Leandro Ferreira da Silva)
Age: 21
Profession: sex worker
Date: 31/07/08
sort by this date: 31/07/08
Month: July, 2008
Location data: Sarandi, PR Brazil
Place: Sarandi, PR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Alessandra was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Yuri
Age: 27
Profession: not reported
Date: July, 2008
sort by this date: 31/07/08
Month: July, 2008
Location data: Bogota Colombia
Place: Bogota
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location: street
Cause: thrown out of vehicle
Remarks: The victim was thrown out of a taxi.
Sources: TvT project: http://trans.ilga.org/
year: 2008

Name: Anita (Marcio Bento Correia)
Age: 24
Profession: sex worker
Date: 02/08/08
sort by this date: 02/08/08
Month: August, 2008
Location data: Avenida Anhanguera, Goiania, GO Brazil
Place: Avenida Anhanguera, Goiania, GO
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Anita was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 02/08/08
sort by this date: 02/08/08
Month: August, 2008
Location data: Rua Caetano Zanella, Sao Bernardo do Campo, SP Brazil
Place: Rua Caetano Zanella, Sao Bernardo do Campo, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: According to witnesses, the victim was shot by a youth on a motorbike.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Olga Cerpa Cabanillas
Age: 54
Profession: hairdresser
Date: 07/08/08
sort by this date: 07/08/08
Month: August, 2008
Location data: Lima Peru
Place: Lima
Region: Central and South America
Country: Peru
Location: own beauty salon
Cause: torture
Remarks: Olga was a hairdresser. She was tortured and murdered brutally in her own beauty salon.
Sources: TvT project: http://trans.ilga.org/
year: 2008

Name: Nikki Williams
Age: 29
Profession: not reported
Date: 20/08/08
sort by this date: 20/08/08
Month: August, 2008
Location data: Louisville USA
Place: Louisville
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: apartment dumpster
Cause: shot
Remarks: Nikki was taken out of the own apartment by four men and dragged into the apartment dumpster and shot. Nikki was a person of color (based on photographs published after death).
Sources: TvT project: www.transgenderdor.org & http://tgdor.org
year: 2008

Name: Tati (Sebastiao Ailson Oliveira Sampaio)
Age: 32
Profession: not reported
Date: 23/08/08
sort by this date: 23/08/08
Month: August, 2008
Location data: Rua Mato Grosso, Cuiaba, MT Brazil
Place: Rua Mato Grosso, Cuiaba, MT
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: family's house
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Tati was killed on the day after an LGBT parade at the door of her family's house.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Krissy Lil Romeo Pye
Age: 25
Profession: drag king performer
Date: 24/08/08
sort by this date: 24/08/08
Month: August, 2008
Location data: Browns Plains Australia
Place: Browns Plains
Region: Oceania
Country: Australia
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Krissy was a drag king performer.
Sources: TvT project: A Dahls House (TDOR-Site)
year: 2008

Name: Tigresa
Age: not reported
Profession: hotel employee
Date: 26/08/08
sort by this date: 26/08/08
Month: August, 2008
Location data: Itabuna, BA Brazil
Place: Itabuna, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Tigresa was employee at the Transamerica Hotel. Her body showed lesions on the head and marks of burning.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Xuxa (Cristiano)
Age: 29
Profession: not reported
Date: 31/08/08
sort by this date: 31/08/08
Month: August, 2008
Location data: Teresina, PI Brazil
Place: Teresina, PI
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Xuxa's body showed marks of torture.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabela 2008; Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Andrea
Age: 28
Profession: not reported
Date: 04/09/08
sort by this date: 04/09/08
Month: September, 2008
Location data: Bogota Colombia
Place: Bogota
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: http://trans.ilga.org/
year: 2008

Name: (Jhon Alexander) Jiménez Guzmán
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 04/09/08
sort by this date: 04/09/08
Month: September, 2008
Location data: Calacali Ecuador
Place: Calacali
Region: Central and South America
Country: Ecuador
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker of Colombian origin. The police found the body in female clothes with three shots in the head on a road leading to Calacali. The killing is suspected to have occurred between the 4th and 5th of August.
Sources: TvT project: La Hora, 08.09.2008
year: 2008

Name: Claudia (Gerson dos Santos)
Age: 41
Profession: cook
Date: 08/09/08
sort by this date: 08/09/08
Month: September, 2008
Location data: Centro, Aracaju, SE Brazil
Place: Centro, Aracaju, SE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stoned
Remarks: Claudia was a cook.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabela 2008; Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Ruby Molina
Age: 22
Profession: not reported
Date: 21/09/08
sort by this date: 21/09/08
Month: September, 2008
Location data: Sacramento, CA USA
Place: Sacramento, CA
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: river
Cause: drowned
Remarks: Ruby's naked body was found floating in a river. Ruby was a person of color (based on photographs published after death).
Sources: TvT project: www.transgenderdor.org & http://tgdor.org
year: 2008

Name: Pamella (Roger Tiago dos Santos)
Age: 23
Profession: not reported
Date: 21/09/08
sort by this date: 21/09/08
Month: September, 2008
Location data: Rua Carlos Gomes, Salvador, BA Brazil
Place: Rua Carlos Gomes, Salvador, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Pamella was a sex worker. She was killed by a client.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: (Magno Berreza Ferreira)
Age: 18
Profession: sex worker
Date: 29/09/08
sort by this date: 29/09/08
Month: September, 2008
Location data: Avenida Mal. Mascarenhas de Morais, Recife, PE Brazil
Place: Avenida Mal. Mascarenhas de Morais, Recife, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: (Germano Trajano)
Age: not reported
Profession: hairdresser
Date: 29/09/08
sort by this date: 29/09/08
Month: September, 2008
Location data: RR Brazil
Place: RR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim was a hairdresser.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 05/10/08
sort by this date: 05/10/08
Month: October, 2008
Location data: Rua Itanhaem, Sao Paulo, SP Brazil
Place: Rua Itanhaem, Sao Paulo, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: (Marcos Vinicius da Silva)
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 08/10/08
sort by this date: 08/10/08
Month: October, 2008
Location data: Braganca, PA Brazil
Place: Braganca, PA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Pamela (Pedro Joao Itavan Peixoto)
Age: 27
Profession: sex worker
Date: 18/10/08
sort by this date: 18/10/08
Month: October, 2008
Location data: R. Dionisio de Camargo, Osasco, SP Brazil
Place: R. Dionisio de Camargo, Osasco, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Pamela was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Gabriela (Gabriel Urrea)
Age: 53
Profession: not reported
Date: 21/10/08
sort by this date: 21/10/08
Month: October, 2008
Location data: Barrio Alfonso Lopez, Santiago de Cali Colombia
Place: Barrio Alfonso Lopez, Santiago de Cali
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location: own apartment
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Gabriela was stabbed in her own apartment, presumably by her partner or boyfriend.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Observatorio Ciudadano Trans
year: 2008

Name: Lula
Age: 25
Profession: not reported
Date: 29/10/08
sort by this date: 29/10/08
Month: October, 2008
Location data: Unitec Honduras
Place: Unitec
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: http://trans.ilga.org/
year: 2008

Name: Jazmin Zelaya
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 29/10/08
sort by this date: 29/10/08
Month: October, 2008
Location data: Tegucigalpa Honduras
Place: Tegucigalpa
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Jazmin was a sex worker and shot in the street.
Sources: TvT project: TGEU-Mailinglist and Amnesty International
year: 2008

Name: Eva (Genisson Silva dos Santos)
Age: 25
Profession: sex worker
Date: 02/11/08
sort by this date: 02/11/08
Month: November, 2008
Location data: Rua de, Aracaju, SE Brazil
Place: Rua de, Aracaju, SE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Eva was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Aimee Wilcoxson
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 03/11/08
sort by this date: 03/11/08
Month: November, 2008
Location data: Aurora, Colorado USA
Place: Aurora, Colorado
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: TDOR website (www.transgenderdor.org)
year: 2008

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 05/11/08
sort by this date: 05/11/08
Month: November, 2008
Location data: Adalatgarha Pakistan
Place: Adalatgarha
Region: Asia
Country: Pakistan
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The victim and two other victims, described as transsexuals and/or eunuchs, were molested and then killed. Suspects are the son of a former minister and two accomplices.
Sources: TvT project: PK Politics 01.02.2009, Dawn 04.02.2009
year: 2008

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 05/11/08
sort by this date: 05/11/08
Month: November, 2008
Location data: Adalatgarha Pakistan
Place: Adalatgarha
Region: Asia
Country: Pakistan
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The victim and two other victims, described as transsexuals and/or eunuchs, were molested and then killed. Suspects are the son of a former minister and two accomplices.
Sources: TvT project: PK Politics 01.02.2009, Dawn 04.02.2009
year: 2008

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 05/11/08
sort by this date: 05/11/08
Month: November, 2008
Location data: Adalatgarha Pakistan
Place: Adalatgarha
Region: Asia
Country: Pakistan
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The victim and two other victims, described as transsexuals and/or eunuchs, were molested and then killed. Suspects are the son of a former minister and two accomplices.
Sources: TvT project: PK Politics 01.02.2009, Dawn 04.02.2009
year: 2008

Name: (Jose Ricardo) Hernandez Navarro
Age: 27
Profession: not reported
Date: 07/11/08
sort by this date: 07/11/08
Month: November, 2008
Location data: Santiago Chile
Place: Santiago
Region: Central and South America
Country: Chile
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: http://trans.ilga.org/
year: 2008

Name: Duanna Johnson
Age: 42
Profession: sex worker
Date: 10/11/08
sort by this date: 10/11/08
Month: November, 2008
Location data: Memphis USA
Place: Memphis
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Duanna was a sex worker and was found dead in the middle of the street. Dunna was a person of color (based on photographs published after death).
Sources: TvT project: www.transgenderdor.org & http://tgdor.org
year: 2008

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 10/11/08
sort by this date: 10/11/08
Month: November, 2008
Location data: Aquidauana, MS Brazil
Place: Aquidauana, MS
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Dilek Ince
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 12/11/08
sort by this date: 12/11/08
Month: November, 2008
Location data: Ankara Turkey
Place: Ankara
Region: Europe
Country: Turkey
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Dilek was shot eight times with a shotgun.
Sources: TvT project: TGEU-Mailinglist & www.transgenderdor.org & http://tgdor.org
year: 2008

Name: Lateisha Green
Age: 22
Profession: not reported
Date: 14/11/08
sort by this date: 14/11/08
Month: November, 2008
Location data: Syracuse USA
Place: Syracuse
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Lateisha was a person of color (based on photographs published after death).
Sources: TvT project: www.transgenderdor.org
year: 2008

Name: Bibi
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 21/11/08
sort by this date: 21/11/08
Month: November, 2008
Location data: Tegucigalpa Honduras
Place: Tegucigalpa
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: TGEU-Mailing-List and http://trans.ilga.org/
year: 2008

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 22/11/08
sort by this date: 22/11/08
Month: November, 2008
Location data: Piraquara, PR Brazil
Place: Piraquara, PR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stoned
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Belem (Cleverson Pinheiro de Jesus)
Age: 25
Profession: sex worker
Date: 24/11/08
sort by this date: 24/11/08
Month: November, 2008
Location data: Av. Chac. Osvaldo Aranha, Aracaju, SE Brazil
Place: Av. Chac. Osvaldo Aranha, Aracaju, SE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: run-over by car
Remarks: Belem was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Roberta Gavou
Age: 35
Profession: not reported
Date: 24/11/08
sort by this date: 24/11/08
Month: November, 2008
Location data: Rome Italy
Place: Rome
Region: Europe
Country: Italy
Location: street
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Roberta was stabbed on the street.
Sources: TvT project: www.sylviarivera.org
year: 2008

Name: Bubu (Jose Anderson Ferreira de Carvalho)
Age: 21
Profession: sex worker
Date: 29/11/08
sort by this date: 29/11/08
Month: November, 2008
Location data: Piedade, Jaboatao dos Guararapes, PE Brazil
Place: Piedade, Jaboatao dos Guararapes, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Bubu was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Lucia
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 01/12/08
sort by this date: 01/12/08
Month: December, 2008
Location data: Araguari, MG Brazil
Place: Araguari, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Jaqueline (Robson)
Age: 25
Profession: sex worker
Date: 15/12/08
sort by this date: 15/12/08
Month: December, 2008
Location data: Av. Assis Brasil, Porto Alegre, RS Brazil
Place: Av. Assis Brasil, Porto Alegre, RS
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Jaqueline was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabela 2008, Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Debora (Emerson Cabral)
Age: 29
Profession: sex worker
Date: 15/12/08
sort by this date: 15/12/08
Month: December, 2008
Location data: R. Joao Amadeu Pedro Bom, Curitiba, PR Brazil
Place: R. Joao Amadeu Pedro Bom, Curitiba, PR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Debora was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Noelia
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 17/12/08
sort by this date: 17/12/08
Month: December, 2008
Location data: Tegucigalpa Honduras
Place: Tegucigalpa
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location: street
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Noelia was a sex worker and stabbed to death in the street with 14 stabs.
Sources: TvT project: TGEU-Mailing-List and http://trans.ilga.org/
year: 2008

Name: Burcu Ercan Girgin
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 18/12/08
sort by this date: 18/12/08
Month: December, 2008
Location data: Gebze Turkey
Place: Gebze
Region: Europe
Country: Turkey
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was killed in the district of Tuzla by two gun shots in the breast. Her body was found dead on the margins on a highway where sex workers worked.
Sources: TvT project: Bianet News, 20.04.2009; Bird of Paradox, 21.04.2009; TvT partner organization Pembe Hayat
year: 2008

Name: N.N.
Age: 50
Profession: not reported
Date: 25/12/08
sort by this date: 25/12/08
Month: December, 2008
Location data: Rosate, MI Italy
Place: Rosate, MI
Region: Europe
Country: Italy
Location: street
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim was killed in the street.
Sources: TvT project: www.gaynews.it
year: 2008

Name: Soraia (Patrick Gomes)
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 25/12/08
sort by this date: 25/12/08
Month: December, 2008
Location data: Vitoria, ES Brazil
Place: Vitoria, ES
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabela 2008, Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: Taysia Elzy
Age: 34
Profession: not reported
Date: 26/12/08
sort by this date: 26/12/08
Month: December, 2008
Location data: Indianapolis USA
Place: Indianapolis
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: own apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks: Taysia and Michael Green were romantically involved. It is believed that Taysia was murdered because she was transgender and Michael was murdered because of his relationship with Taysia. They were both found dead in their apartment. The victim was a person of color (based on photographs published after death).
Sources: TvT project: www.transgenderdor.org
year: 2008

Name: Kiz Saban Saban Celen
Age: 49
Profession: not reported
Date: 29/12/08
sort by this date: 29/12/08
Month: December, 2008
Location data: Diyarbakir, Turkey
Place: Diyarbakir
Region: Europe
Country: Turkey
Location: near highway
Cause: shot
Remarks: Kiz Saban and her adopted son were stabbed and shot. She was portrayed in a book on prostitution in Turkey, as she was a sex worker until 2004. She was described as being socially accepted.
Sources: TvT partner organization Trans X
year: 2008

Name: Pascale
Age: 38
Profession: sex worker
Date: 31/12/08
sort by this date: 31/12/08
Month: December, 2008
Location data: Noumea New Caledonia
Place: Noumea
Region: Oceania
Country: New Caledonia
Location: own apartment
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Pascale was of Tahitian descent and worked as a sex worker. The crime happened in Pascale's own apartment.
Sources: TvT project: Les Nouvelles Caledonniens, 31.03.2009 & 01.04.2009
year: 2008

Name: Paola
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 31/12/08
sort by this date: 31/12/08
Month: December, 2008
Location data: Barbalho, Salvador, BA Brazil
Place: Barbalho, Salvador, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: own apartment
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Paola was a sex worker. She was killed in her own apartment. Her body was found thrown into a tunnel.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 31/12/08
sort by this date: 31/12/08
Month: December, 2008
Location data: Av. dos Estado, Porto Alegre, RS Brazil
Place: Av. dos Estado, Porto Alegre, RS
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Lista Nominal 2008)
year: 2008

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2008
sort by this date: 31/12/08
Month: 2008
Location data: Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia
Place: Denpasar
Region: Asia
Country: Indonesia
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The victim's body was buried at a construction site for a commercial store.
Sources: TvT project: The Jakarta Post 11.04.2008
year: 2008

Name: Katia Otacilio Vilela
Age: 48
Profession: bar owner
Date: 01/01/09
sort by this date: 01/01/09
Month: January, 2009
Location data: Jatai, GO Brazil
Place: Jatai, GO
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: own bar
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Katia was a bar owner. She was killed in her own bar with 14 stabs.
Sources: TvT project: Diario da Manha, 11.01.2009, Gazeta Popular 09.01.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2009
sort by this date: 01/01/09
Month: 2009
Location data: Dalian China
Place: Dalian
Region: Asia
Country: China
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organisation Trans China
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2009
sort by this date: 01/01/09
Month: 2009
Location data: not reported Guatemala
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Nine trans persons were murdered between 1st January and 15th May 2009.
Sources: TvT project: CERIGUA 15.05.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2009
sort by this date: 01/01/09
Month: 2009
Location data: not reported Guatemala
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Nine trans persons were murdered between 1st January and 15th May 2009.
Sources: TvT project: CERIGUA 15.05.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2009
sort by this date: 01/01/09
Month: 2009
Location data: not reported Guatemala
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Nine trans persons were murdered between 1st January and 15th May 2009.
Sources: TvT project: CERIGUA 15.05.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2009
sort by this date: 01/01/09
Month: 2009
Location data: not reported Guatemala
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Nine trans persons were murdered between 1st January and 15th May 2009.
Sources: TvT project: CERIGUA 15.05.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2009
sort by this date: 01/01/09
Month: 2009
Location data: not reported Guatemala
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Nine trans persons were murdered between 1st January and 15th May 2009.
Sources: TvT project: CERIGUA 15.05.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2009
sort by this date: 01/01/09
Month: 2009
Location data: not reported Guatemala
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Nine trans persons were murdered between 1st January and 15th May 2009.
Sources: TvT project: CERIGUA 15.05.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2009
sort by this date: 01/01/09
Month: 2009
Location data: not reported Guatemala
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Nine trans persons were murdered between 1st January and 15th May 2009.
Sources: TvT project: CERIGUA 15.05.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2009
sort by this date: 01/01/09
Month: 2009
Location data: not reported Guatemala
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Nine trans persons were murdered between 1st January and 15th May 2009.
Sources: TvT project: CERIGUA 15.05.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2009
sort by this date: 01/01/09
Month: 2009
Location data: not reported Guatemala
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Nine trans persons were murdered between 1st January and 15th May 2009.
Sources: TvT project: CERIGUA 15.05.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2009
sort by this date: 01/01/09
Month: 2009
Location data: not reported Venezuela
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 18 trans persons were murdered between 1st January and 31st May 2009.
Sources: TvT project: BBC News 02.06.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2009
sort by this date: 01/01/09
Month: 2009
Location data: not reported Venezuela
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 18 trans persons were murdered between 1st January and 31st May 2009.
Sources: TvT project: BBC News 02.06.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2009
sort by this date: 01/01/09
Month: 2009
Location data: not reported Venezuela
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 18 trans persons were murdered between 1st January and 31st May 2009.
Sources: TvT project: BBC News 02.06.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2009
sort by this date: 01/01/09
Month: 2009
Location data: not reported Venezuela
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 18 trans persons were murdered between 1st January and 31st May 2009.
Sources: TvT project: BBC News 02.06.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2009
sort by this date: 01/01/09
Month: 2009
Location data: not reported Venezuela
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 18 trans persons were murdered between 1st January and 31st May 2009.
Sources: TvT project: BBC News 02.06.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2009
sort by this date: 01/01/09
Month: 2009
Location data: not reported Venezuela
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 18 trans persons were murdered between 1st January and 31st May 2009.
Sources: TvT project: BBC News 02.06.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2009
sort by this date: 01/01/09
Month: 2009
Location data: not reported Venezuela
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 18 trans persons were murdered between 1st January and 31st May 2009.
Sources: TvT project: BBC News 02.06.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2009
sort by this date: 01/01/09
Month: 2009
Location data: not reported Venezuela
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 18 trans persons were murdered between 1st January and 31st May 2009.
Sources: TvT project: BBC News 02.06.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2009
sort by this date: 01/01/09
Month: 2009
Location data: not reported Venezuela
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 18 trans persons were murdered between 1st January and 31st May 2009.
Sources: TvT project: BBC News 02.06.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2009
sort by this date: 01/01/09
Month: 2009
Location data: not reported Venezuela
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 18 trans persons were murdered between 1st January and 31st May 2009.
Sources: TvT project: BBC News 02.06.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2009
sort by this date: 01/01/09
Month: 2009
Location data: not reported Venezuela
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 18 trans persons were murdered between 1st January and 31st May 2009.
Sources: TvT project: BBC News 02.06.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2009
sort by this date: 01/01/09
Month: 2009
Location data: not reported Venezuela
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 18 trans persons were murdered between 1st January and 31st May 2009.
Sources: TvT project: BBC News 02.06.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2009
sort by this date: 01/01/09
Month: 2009
Location data: not reported Venezuela
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 18 trans persons were murdered between 1st January and 31st May 2009.
Sources: TvT project: BBC News 02.06.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2009
sort by this date: 01/01/09
Month: 2009
Location data: not reported Venezuela
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 18 trans persons were murdered between 1st January and 31st May 2009.
Sources: TvT project: BBC News 02.06.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2009
sort by this date: 01/01/09
Month: 2009
Location data: not reported Venezuela
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 18 trans persons were murdered between 1st January and 31st May 2009.
Sources: TvT project: BBC News 02.06.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2009
sort by this date: 01/01/09
Month: 2009
Location data: not reported Venezuela
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 18 trans persons were murdered between 1st January and 31st May 2009.
Sources: TvT project: BBC News 02.06.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2009
sort by this date: 01/01/09
Month: 2009
Location data: not reported Venezuela
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 18 trans persons were murdered between 1st January and 31st May 2009.
Sources: TvT project: BBC News 02.06.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2009
sort by this date: 01/01/09
Month: 2009
Location data: not reported Venezuela
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 18 trans persons were murdered between 1st January and 31st May 2009.
Sources: TvT project: BBC News 02.06.2009
year: 2009

Name: Mhtium Abululak
Age: 33
Profession: not reported
Date: 03/01/09
sort by this date: 03/01/09
Month: January, 2009
Location data: Catelfranco Veneto Italy
Place: Catelfranco Veneto
Region: Europe
Country: Italy
Location: own apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was stabbed and shot in the head.
Sources: TvT project: www.sylviarivera.org & corrierealpi.gelocal.it
year: 2009

Name: Alexa Rojas Castro
Age: 35
Profession: not reported
Date: 07/01/09
sort by this date: 07/01/09
Month: January, 2009
Location data: Monterrey Mexico
Place: Monterrey
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: beauty salon
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Alexa's body was found half naked on the street with 12 stab wounds and a desfigured face.
Sources: TvT project: La I Saltillo-Noticias, 07.01.2009 & http://trans.ilga.org/
year: 2009

Name: Marcela Cairo Souza
Age: 22
Profession: employee
Date: 09/01/09
sort by this date: 09/01/09
Month: January, 2009
Location data: Jatai, GO Brazil
Place: Jatai, GO
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Marcela worked in the food industry. She was shot in the head.
Sources: TvT project: Diario da Manha, 11.01.2009, Gazeta Popula 09.01.2009
year: 2009

Name: Cynthia Nicole
Age: 35
Profession: sex worker, activist
Date: 09/01/09
sort by this date: 09/01/09
Month: January, 2009
Location data: Barrio Guaserique, Comayaguela Honduras
Place: Barrio Guaserique, Comayaguela
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Cynthia Nicole was a leading Honduras trans activist, fighting for trans sex workers' rights. According to other activists witnessing the crime, three unknown men shot Nicole in a drive-by shooting. She received three shots in the head and one in the chest.
Sources: TvT project: Human Rights Watch website, 12.01.2011
year: 2009

Name: Aline da Silva Ribeira
Age: 24
Profession: not reported
Date: 16/01/09
sort by this date: 16/01/09
Month: January, 2009
Location data: Naples Italy
Place: Naples
Region: Europe
Country: Italy
Location: street
Cause: strangled
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: www.sylviarivera.org & corrierealpi.gelocal.it
year: 2009

Name: Caprice Curry
Age: 31
Profession: not reported
Date: 17/01/09
sort by this date: 17/01/09
Month: January, 2009
Location data: San Fransisco USA
Place: San Fransisco
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: street
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Photographs suggest that the victim was a person of color.
Sources: TvT project: www.transgenderdor.org
year: 2009

Name: (Rovilson) Teixeira
Age: 18
Profession: not reported
Date: 18/01/09
sort by this date: 18/01/09
Month: January, 2009
Location data: Londrina, SP Brazil
Place: Londrina, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was stabbed seven times.
Sources: TvT project: Bonde, 19.01.2009
year: 2009

Name: Bella
Age: 35
Profession: not reported
Date: 18/01/09
sort by this date: 18/01/09
Month: January, 2009
Location data: Pasar Minggu, Jakarta Indonesia
Place: Pasar Minggu, Jakarta
Region: Asia
Country: Indonesia
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Bella was found with stab wounds in the neck shoulders, and waist.
Sources: TvT project: The Jakarta Post, 21.01.2009
year: 2009

Name: Silvana Rocha Gilvan Silva
Age: 40
Profession: sex worker
Date: 18/01/09
sort by this date: 18/01/09
Month: January, 2009
Location data: Aracaju, SE Brazil
Place: Aracaju, SE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Silvana was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia: www.ggb.org.br
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: 25
Profession: not reported
Date: 19/01/09
sort by this date: 19/01/09
Month: January, 2009
Location data: Londrina, SP Brazil
Place: Londrina, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was stabbed four times.
Sources: TvT partner Organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia: www.ggb.org.br
year: 2009

Name: (Mateus Silva)
Age: 28
Profession: sex worker
Date: 19/01/09
sort by this date: 19/01/09
Month: January, 2009
Location data: Italy
Place:
Region: Europe
Country: Italy
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner Organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia: www.ggb.org.br
year: 2009

Name: Minja K.
Age: 39
Profession: not reported
Date: 19/01/09
sort by this date: 19/01/09
Month: January, 2009
Location data: Belgrade Serbia
Place: Belgrade
Region: Europe
Country: Serbia
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: TGEU-Mailing-List
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: 28
Profession: not reported
Date: 22/01/09
sort by this date: 22/01/09
Month: January, 2009
Location data: Guayaquil Ecuador
Place: Guayaquil
Region: Central and South America
Country: Ecuador
Location:
Cause: head injury
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: El Universo, 23.01.2009
year: 2009

Name: Dayana Nicole Castillo Garcia
Age: 31
Profession: owner of beauty salon
Date: 22/01/09
sort by this date: 22/01/09
Month: January, 2009
Location data: Tarapoto Peru
Place: Tarapoto
Region: Central and South America
Country: Peru
Location: beauty salon
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Dayana was a stylist. She was killed with 20 stabs.
Sources: TvT project: Instituto Runa 23.01.2009
year: 2009

Name: Cita Solorzano (muxé)
Age: 40
Profession: not reported
Date: 25/01/09
sort by this date: 25/01/09
Month: January, 2009
Location data: Asuncion Ixtaltepec Mexico
Place: Asuncion Ixtaltepec
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Anodis, 17.03.2009
year: 2009

Name: Camila Hernandez Nieto
Age: 18
Profession: not reported
Date: 28/01/09
sort by this date: 28/01/09
Month: January, 2009
Location data: Sincelejo Colombia
Place: Sincelejo
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: El Universal, 01.02.2009
year: 2009

Name: Daisy
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: January, 2009
sort by this date: 31/01/09
Month: January, 2009
Location data: San Cristobal Mexico
Place: San Cristobal
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: hotel
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Daisy was originally from Guatemala.
Sources: TvT project: Cuarto Poder, 30.01.2009
year: 2009

Name: (Will) Teixeira da Silva
Age: 25
Profession: sex worker
Date: 01/02/09
sort by this date: 01/02/09
Month: February, 2009
Location data: Recife, PE Brazil
Place: Recife, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT project: Folha de Pernambuco, 02.02.2009
year: 2009

Name: Noor Azlan Khamis
Age: 29
Profession: employee
Date: 01/02/09
sort by this date: 01/02/09
Month: February, 2009
Location data: Johor Jaya Malaysia
Place: Johor Jaya
Region: Asia
Country: Malaysia
Location: own apartment
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim worked in a furniture store and was found dead in a pool of blood.
Sources: TvT project: New Strait Times, 03.02.2009 & Yuki-Shock-Blog
year: 2009

Name: (Ailton) Correa Maia
Age: 31
Profession: not reported
Date: 01/02/09
sort by this date: 01/02/09
Month: February, 2009
Location data: Curitiba, PR Brazil
Place: Curitiba, PR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Gazeta do Povo, 02.02.2009
year: 2009

Name: Sharon Perea Devia
Age: 38
Profession: stylist
Date: 01/02/09
sort by this date: 01/02/09
Month: February, 2009
Location data: Carrera 15, Santiago de Cali Colombia
Place: Carrera 15, Santiago de Cali
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location: hairdresser's shop
Cause: shot
Remarks: Sharon was a stylist. She was killed in her hairdresser's shop by two gun shots.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Observatorio Ciudadano Trans
year: 2009

Name: Ariadna (Ferney Antonio Paniagua)
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 01/02/09
sort by this date: 01/02/09
Month: February, 2009
Location data: Pereira, Risaralda Colombia
Place: Pereira, Risaralda
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Ariadna was a sex worker. She was shot in the stomach.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Observatorio Ciudadano Trans
year: 2009

Name: Susana (Alejandro Gomez Fajardo)
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 02/02/09
sort by this date: 02/02/09
Month: February, 2009
Location data: Valle del Cauca Colombia
Place: Valle del Cauca
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Susana was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Observatorio Ciudadano Trans
year: 2009

Name: Cristy
Age: 25
Profession: not reported
Date: 10/02/09
sort by this date: 10/02/09
Month: February, 2009
Location data: Guatemala City Guatemala
Place: Guatemala City
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Cristy was killed with 30 stabs.
Sources: TvT project: http://trans.ilga.org/
year: 2009

Name: Ramazan Basat
Age: 34
Profession: sex worker
Date: 17/02/09
sort by this date: 17/02/09
Month: February, 2009
Location data: Izmir, Turkey
Place: Izmir
Region: Europe
Country: Turkey
Location: hospital
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: She was stabbed by a client.
Sources: TvT partner organization Trans X
year: 2009

Name: Camila Pereira
Age: 20
Profession: not reported
Date: 18/02/09
sort by this date: 18/02/09
Month: February, 2009
Location data: Uberlandia, MG Brazil
Place: Uberlandia, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Camila died after two days in hospital.
Sources: TvT project: Correio de Uberlândia, 05.03.2009
year: 2009

Name: (Joe)
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: 18/02/09
sort by this date: 18/02/09
Month: February, 2009
Location data: Campinas, SP Brazil
Place: Campinas, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stoned
Remarks: The victim was raped with a stick.
Sources: TvT partner Organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia: www.ggb.org.br
year: 2009

Name: Puttalakshmis (Hijra)
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: 19/02/09
sort by this date: 19/02/09
Month: February, 2009
Location data: Bangalore India
Place: Bangalore
Region: Asia
Country: India
Location: street
Cause: thrown out of vehicle
Remarks: The victim was raped and thrown out of a moving vehicle. The crime happened shortly before 19th February.
Sources: TvT project: Bangalore News, 19.02.2009
year: 2009

Name: Cris (Francisco) das Neves
Age: 31
Profession: not reported
Date: 20/02/09
sort by this date: 20/02/09
Month: February, 2009
Location data: Cabo de Santo Agostinho, PE Brazil
Place: Cabo de Santo Agostinho, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: head injury
Remarks: Cris was cut in the head.
Sources: TvT project: Tribuna Popular, 20.02.2009
year: 2009

Name: Vicky Londono Chavarria
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 21/02/09
sort by this date: 21/02/09
Month: February, 2009
Location data: Ibague Colombia
Place: Ibague
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location: client's apartment
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Vicky was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT project: El Nuevo Dia, 22.02.2009
year: 2009

Name: Pequena P
Age: 27
Profession: performer
Date: 27/02/09
sort by this date: 27/02/09
Month: February, 2009
Location data: Gualeguaychu Argentina
Place: Gualeguaychu
Region: Central and South America
Country: Argentina
Location: own apartment
Cause: strangled
Remarks: Pequana P was a performer. Based on the autopsy, officials suspect it was a murder.
Sources: TvT project: La Razon, 03.04.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: January/February, 2009
sort by this date: 28/02/09
Month: January/February, 2009
Location data: Trinidad, Beni Bolivia
Place: Trinidad, Beni
Region: Central and South America
Country: Bolivia
Location:
Cause: strangled
Remarks: The victims body was found hanging on the branch of a tree with a thick nylon string around the neck.
Sources: TvT project: La Prensa, online portal, 3.2.2011
year: 2009

Name: Miriam Nunes Lucas
Age: 41
Profession: not reported
Date: 01/03/09
sort by this date: 01/03/09
Month: March, 2009
Location data: Ribeirao das Neves, MG Brazil
Place: Ribeirao das Neves, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: own apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: O Tempo, 02.03.2009
year: 2009

Name: (Moises) Guimarães de Lima
Age: 20
Profession: not reported
Date: 04/03/09
sort by this date: 04/03/09
Month: March, 2009
Location data: Joao Pessoa, PB Brazil
Place: Joao Pessoa, PB
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The police are investigating the case as a possible hate crime.
Sources: TvT project: Portal Correio, 04.03.2009
year: 2009

Name: (Wanderson Wanderley) Teixeira da Rocha
Age: 20
Profession: not reported
Date: 04/03/09
sort by this date: 04/03/09
Month: March, 2009
Location data: Joao Pessoa, PB Brazil
Place: Joao Pessoa, PB
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The police are investigating the case as a possible hate crime.
Sources: TvT project: Portal Correio, 04.03.2009
year: 2009

Name: (Danilo) Borges
Age: 19
Profession: sex worker
Date: 05/03/09
sort by this date: 05/03/09
Month: March, 2009
Location data: Londrina, SP Brazil
Place: Londrina, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia: www.ggb.org.br
year: 2009

Name: Kirsi Ubri
Age: 24
Profession: sex worker
Date: 08/03/09
sort by this date: 08/03/09
Month: March, 2009
Location data: Santiago Dominican Republic
Place: Santiago
Region: Central and South America
Country: Dominican Republic
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Portal Joserafaelososa.com, 14.04.2009
year: 2009

Name: Ebru Soykan
Age: 28
Profession: not reported
Date: 10/03/09
sort by this date: 10/03/09
Month: March, 2009
Location data: Istanbul Turkey
Place: Istanbul
Region: Europe
Country: Turkey
Location: own apartment
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Ebru received death threats before being killed in her own apartment.
Sources: TvT project: TGEU-Mailing-List, Lambda Istanbul
year: 2009

Name: (Julio) Avila Albarracín
Age: 32
Profession: sex worker
Date: 10/03/09
sort by this date: 10/03/09
Month: March, 2009
Location data: Mar del Plata Argentina
Place: Mar del Plata
Region: Central and South America
Country: Argentina
Location: street
Cause: stabbed
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: La Nacion 12.03.2009
year: 2009

Name: Adriana Fonseca (Adan Sanchez Lopez, muxe)
Age: 31
Profession: sex worker
Date: 12/03/09
sort by this date: 12/03/09
Month: March, 2009
Location data: Juchitan Mexico
Place: Juchitan
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Adriana was a sex worker and about 30 to 31 years old.
Sources: TvT project: Portal Sida, 13.03.2009 & La Jornada, 14.03.2009 & Imparcial en Línea, 12.03.2009
year: 2009

Name: Mohini
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: 16/03/09
sort by this date: 16/03/09
Month: March, 2009
Location data: Indore, India
Place: Indore
Region: Asia
Country: India
Location: own apartment
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Times of India 30.12.2011
year: 2009

Name: Virgen Castro Carrillo
Age: 30
Profession: sex worker
Date: 19/03/09
sort by this date: 19/03/09
Month: March, 2009
Location data: Sinaloa Mexico
Place: Sinaloa
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The crime happened between 19th and 21st March. The police suspect that Virgen, who was a sex worker, was murdered by a client when he noticed that she was a trans person. Afterwards the perpetrator threw her body into the river.
Sources: TvT project: El Sol de Sinaloa 24.03.2009
year: 2009

Name: L. D.
Age: 29
Profession: not reported
Date: 20/03/09
sort by this date: 20/03/09
Month: March, 2009
Location data: Eskisehir, Turkey
Place: Eskisehir
Region: Europe
Country: Turkey
Location: hospital
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: She was attcked and stabbed by three men.
Sources: TvT partner organization Trans X
year: 2009

Name: Claudia
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 20/03/09
sort by this date: 20/03/09
Month: March, 2009
Location data: Sao Paulo, SP Brazil
Place: Sao Paulo, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Claudia was castrated.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia: www.ggb.org.br
year: 2009

Name: (Francisco) Nazareno
Age: 31
Profession: seller
Date: 22/03/09
sort by this date: 22/03/09
Month: March, 2009
Location data: not reported Italy
Place: not reported
Region: Europe
Country: Italy
Location:
Cause: poisened
Remarks: The victim was a seller.
Sources: TvT partner Organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia: www.ggb.org.br
year: 2009

Name: Eda Yildirim
Age: 38
Profession: not reported
Date: 22/03/09
sort by this date: 22/03/09
Month: March, 2009
Location data: Bursa Turkey
Place: Bursa
Region: Europe
Country: Turkey
Location: own apartment
Cause: dismembered
Remarks: Eda's head was cut off.
Sources: TvT project: TGEU-Mailing-List, Lambda Istanbul
year: 2009

Name: Ramya
Age: 34
Profession: president of the Thanjavur District’s Transsexuals Association
Date: 23/03/09
sort by this date: 23/03/09
Month: March, 2009
Location data: Thanjavur India
Place: Thanjavur
Region: Asia
Country: India
Location:
Cause: strangled
Remarks: Ramya was the president of the Thanjavur District’s Transsexuals Association.
Sources: TvT project: News Web-India, 24.03.2009
year: 2009

Name: Smail L.
Age: 36
Profession: not reported
Date: 24/03/09
sort by this date: 24/03/09
Month: March, 2009
Location data: Valencia Spain
Place: Valencia
Region: Europe
Country: Spain
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Smail was of Moroccan descent.
Sources: TvT project: ABC.es 25.03.2009 & Las Provincias 26.03.2009
year: 2009

Name: Sasha Estefania
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 24/03/09
sort by this date: 24/03/09
Month: March, 2009
Location data: Caracas Venezuela
Place: Caracas
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: ILGA Trans Secretariat: http://trans.ilga.org/
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 25/03/09
sort by this date: 25/03/09
Month: March, 2009
Location data: Nova Iguacu, RJ Brazil
Place: Nova Iguacu, RJ
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia: www.ggb.org.br
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: seller
Date: 27/03/09
sort by this date: 27/03/09
Month: March, 2009
Location data: Salvador da Bahia, BA Brazil
Place: Salvador da Bahia, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was a seller.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia: www.ggb.org.br
year: 2009

Name: Shabnam
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: 3/29/2009
sort by this date: 3/29/2009
Month: March, 2009
Location data: Masjid Street, Mumbai, India
Place: Mumbai
Region: Asia
Country: India
Location: hotel
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Shabnam checked in a hotel with a man, and was found with her body tied and her face slashed with a knife the next morning. The police suspect that the accused had promised marriage to the eunuch and brought her to the city only to kill her here so that their identities could remain unknown.
Sources: TvT project: Hindustan Times, 03.04.2009
year: 2009

Name: Xiao Qian
Age: 40
Profession: sex worker
Date: March, 2009
sort by this date: 31/03/09
Month: March, 2009
Location data: Kunming China
Place: Kunming
Region: Asia
Country: China
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Xiao Qian was a sex worker and killed by a client.
Sources: TvT partner organisation: Trans China
year: 2009

Name: Gisela (Roni) Galante
Age: 42
Profession: not reported
Date: 01/04/09
sort by this date: 01/04/09
Month: April, 2009
Location data: Gualeguaychu Argentina
Place: Gualeguaychu
Region: Central and South America
Country: Argentina
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Remains of the body were found weeks later
Sources: TvT project: La Calle 19.04.2009
year: 2009

Name: Paola Bracho (Paulo Enrique Torres)
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 01/04/09
sort by this date: 01/04/09
Month: April, 2009
Location data: Palmira Colombia
Place: Palmira
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location: street
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Paola was a sex worker. She was killed by a supposed client, who approached her on a motorbike and stabbed her various times.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Observatorio Ciudadano Trans
year: 2009

Name: Melek D.
Age: 25
Profession: not reported
Date: 11/04/09
sort by this date: 11/04/09
Month: April, 2009
Location data: Ankara Turkey
Place: Ankara
Region: Europe
Country: Turkey
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: TGEU-Mailing-List & Bird of Paradox, 21.04.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: 40
Profession: not reported
Date: 11/04/09
sort by this date: 11/04/09
Month: April, 2009
Location data: Niteroi, RJ Brazil
Place: Niteroi, RJ
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: TGEU-Mailing-List & Bird of Paradox, 21.04.2009
year: 2009

Name: Image Devereux (Jimmy McCollough)
Age: 34
Profession: not reported
Date: 14/04/09
sort by this date: 14/04/09
Month: April, 2009
Location data: Fayetteville USA
Place: Fayetteville
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: street
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Photographs suggest that the victim was a person of color.
Sources: TvT project: www.transgenderdor.org
year: 2009

Name: (Gabriel) Carneiro de Sousa
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 18/04/09
sort by this date: 18/04/09
Month: April, 2009
Location data: Fortaleza, CE Brazil
Place: Fortaleza, CE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Diario do Nordeste, 21.04.2009
year: 2009

Name: Jeva Padilla
Age: 23
Profession: not reported
Date: 21/04/09
sort by this date: 21/04/09
Month: April, 2009
Location data: Santiago Dominican Republic
Place: Santiago
Region: Central and South America
Country: Dominican Republic
Location:
Cause: torture
Remarks: Jeva's body showed burns and the face and genitals were mutilated. She was executed with 40 shots and wrapped in a plastic bag
Sources: TvT project: MRTV, 23.04.2009 & Al Momento 22.04.2009
year: 2009

Name: Ramon Martinez
Age: 26
Profession: not reported
Date: 23/04/09
sort by this date: 23/04/09
Month: April, 2009
Location data: Santiago Dominican Republic
Place: Santiago
Region: Central and South America
Country: Dominican Republic
Location:
Cause: torture
Remarks: The victim's body showed burns and severe knife wounds, and the body was wrapped in a pink plastic bag.
Sources: TvT project: MRTV, 23.04.2009
year: 2009

Name: Britney Pereira
Age: 23
Profession: not reported
Date: 27/04/09
sort by this date: 27/04/09
Month: April, 2009
Location data: Cuiaba, MT Brazil
Place: Cuiaba, MT
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia: www.ggb.org.br
year: 2009

Name: Juliana Martins
Age: 28
Profession: not reported
Date: 27/04/09
sort by this date: 27/04/09
Month: April, 2009
Location data: Curitiba, PR Brazil
Place: Curitiba, PR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Juliana was shot in the stomach from a close distance.
Sources: TvT project: Athos GLS, 07.05.2009
year: 2009

Name: Shafiq
Age: 30
Profession: masseur
Date: 27/04/09
sort by this date: 27/04/09
Month: April, 2009
Location data: Bureywala, Lahore, Pakistan
Place: Lahore
Region: Asia
Country: Pakistan
Location: own apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Daily Times 28.04.2009
year: 2009

Name: (Caio Júnior) dos Santos
Age: 19
Profession: not reported
Date: 03/05/09
sort by this date: 03/05/09
Month: May, 2009
Location data: Varzea Grande, MT Brazil
Place: Varzea Grande, MT
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: strangled
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: 24horas News, 04.05.2009
year: 2009

Name: Fernanda Botelho
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 04/05/09
sort by this date: 04/05/09
Month: May, 2009
Location data: Curitiba, PR Brazil
Place: Curitiba, PR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Athos GLS, 07.05.2009
year: 2009

Name: Diksy Jones
Age: 64
Profession: mason
Date: 06/05/09
sort by this date: 06/05/09
Month: May, 2009
Location data: Upper Hut New Zealand
Place: Upper Hut
Region: Oceania
Country: New Zealand
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Diksy was a cabinet mason. She died of severe injuries.
Sources: TvT project: The Dominion Post, 07.05.2009
year: 2009

Name: Jenifer
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 06/05/09
sort by this date: 06/05/09
Month: May, 2009
Location data: Curitiba, PR Brazil
Place: Curitiba, PR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Athos GLS, 07.05.2009
year: 2009

Name: Xiomaran Duras
Age: 27
Profession: not reported
Date: 18/05/09
sort by this date: 18/05/09
Month: May, 2009
Location data: Caracas Venezuela
Place: Caracas
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Six bullets were found in Xiomaran's body.
Sources: TvT project: ILGA Trans Secretariat: http://trans.ilga.org/
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: 30
Profession: sex worker
Date: 19/05/09
sort by this date: 19/05/09
Month: May, 2009
Location data: Natal, RN Brazil
Place: Natal, RN
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia: www.ggb.org.br
year: 2009

Name: Cindy Cagla Ilyas Cagan
Age: 26
Profession: not reported
Date: 22/05/09
sort by this date: 22/05/09
Month: May, 2009
Location data: Ankara Turkey
Place: Ankara
Region: Europe
Country: Turkey
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Cindy was a sex worker. A man, who was a web designer, confessed the crime, saying he killed Cindy because of teh money she earned and because he wanted to pay back debts. He planned the murder, injuring Cindy with 43 knife stabs and slitting her throat.
Sources: TvT project: Kaos Gl-Turkey, TGEU-Mailing-List 22.05.2009, 26.05.2009; Radikal, online portal, 29.05.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: 26
Profession: not reported
Date: 24/05/09
sort by this date: 24/05/09
Month: May, 2009
Location data: Belo Horizonte, MG Brazil
Place: Belo Horizonte, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was shot with 13 bullets. The police investigated the killing as a hate crime.
Sources: TvT project: O Tempo, 24.05.2009
year: 2009

Name: Karina Alves
Age: 26
Profession: sex worker
Date: 25/05/09
sort by this date: 25/05/09
Month: May, 2009
Location data: Belo Horizonte, MG Brazil
Place: Belo Horizonte, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Karina was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia: www.ggb.org.br
year: 2009

Name: Foxy Ivy
Age: 35
Profession: not reported
Date: 25/05/09
sort by this date: 25/05/09
Month: May, 2009
Location data: Detroit USA
Place: Detroit
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Foxy was an African-American trans woman of and under 35 years old. She was shot in the back in a park.
Sources: TvT project: www.transgenderdor.org
year: 2009

Name: (Pedro) Sánchez Pérez
Age: 23
Profession: not reported
Date: 26/05/09
sort by this date: 26/05/09
Month: May, 2009
Location data: San Miguel Canoa Honduras
Place: San Miguel Canoa
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was 20 to 25 years old and was found in female clothing.
Sources: TvT project: Sintesis Digital 27.05.2009
year: 2009

Name: (Adriano) Aquino Pereira
Age: 31
Profession: sex worker
Date: 26/05/09
sort by this date: 26/05/09
Month: May, 2009
Location data: Recife, PE Brazil
Place: Recife, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia: www.ggb.org.br
year: 2009

Name: Dara
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 26/05/09
sort by this date: 26/05/09
Month: May, 2009
Location data: Curitiba, PR Brazil
Place: Curitiba, PR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: car
Cause: shot
Remarks: The crime happened in a stolen car.
Sources: TvT project: Bem Paraná, 26.05.2009, 27.05.2009, Gay-Portugal, 28.05.2009
year: 2009

Name: Cailane
Age: 24
Profession: not reported
Date: 30/05/09
sort by this date: 30/05/09
Month: May, 2009
Location data: Varzea Grande, MT Brazil
Place: Varzea Grande, MT
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: burned
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia: www.ggb.org.br
year: 2009

Name: Ketlin
Age: 19
Profession: not reported
Date: May, 2009
sort by this date: 31/05/09
Month: May, 2009
Location data: Uruacu, GO Brazil
Place: Uruacu, GO
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: dismembered
Remarks: Ketlin was dismembered and beaten to death with a hatchet, her breasts cut off.
Sources: TvT project: LGBTT-Blogspot, 03.07.2009
year: 2009

Name: Papucha (Domingo Hurtado Encina)
Age: 25
Profession: sex worker
Date: 01/06/09
sort by this date: 01/06/09
Month: June, 2009
Location data: La Victoria Peru
Place: La Victoria
Region: Central and South America
Country: Peru
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Witnesses indicated that the perpetrator was a client of Papucha, who was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT project: Portugal.Gay, 02.06.2009, La República, 01.06.2009
year: 2009

Name: La Luli
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: 07/06/09
sort by this date: 07/06/09
Month: June, 2009
Location data: San Lorenzo Puerto Rico
Place: San Lorenzo
Region: Central and South America
Country: Puerto Rico
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: La Luli was approximately 30 years old. Her body was found with ten stabs in the chest and different parts of the body as well as in the face.
Sources: TvT project: El Vocero 08.06.2009
year: 2009

Name: Kelly (Frederick) Watson
Age: 32
Profession: sex worker
Date: 09/06/09
sort by this date: 09/06/09
Month: June, 2009
Location data: Maple St SE, Albuquerque, NM USA
Place: Maple St SE, Albuquerque, NM
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: street
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Kelly Watson was Navajo and a sex worker. The victim's body was found in an alley.
Sources: TvT project: Native Out, 08.07.2009; KRQE, online portal,07.07.2009
year: 2009

Name: Tanya Ardon
Age: 17
Profession: not reported
Date: 11/06/09
sort by this date: 11/06/09
Month: June, 2009
Location data: San Salvador El Salvador
Place: San Salvador
Region: Central and South America
Country: El Salvador
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Diario Co-Latino 15.06.2009 & 17.06.2009
year: 2009

Name: Catherine
Age: 28
Profession: not reported
Date: 11/06/09
sort by this date: 11/06/09
Month: June, 2009
Location data: San Salvador El Salvador
Place: San Salvador
Region: Central and South America
Country: El Salvador
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Diario Co-Latino 15.06.2009 & 17.06.2009
year: 2009

Name: Carla Regina Bento
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: 11/06/09
sort by this date: 11/06/09
Month: June, 2009
Location data: Sao Paulo, SP Brazil
Place: Sao Paulo, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: strangled
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Canal Rio Claro 13.06.2009
year: 2009

Name: Rafaele
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 14/06/09
sort by this date: 14/06/09
Month: June, 2009
Location data: Curitiba, PR Brazil
Place: Curitiba, PR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Noticias Puebla 15.06.2009
year: 2009

Name: Anita Fajardo Rios
Age: not reported
Profession: chorus singer
Date: 16/06/09
sort by this date: 16/06/09
Month: June, 2009
Location data: El Carmen Mexico
Place: El Carmen
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Anita was a chorus singer. She was beaten and stabbed.
Sources: TvT project: La Quinta Columna & Noticias Puebla 18.06.2009
year: 2009

Name: (Jefferson) Thiago de Santos
Age: 16
Profession: sex worker
Date: 22/06/09
sort by this date: 22/06/09
Month: June, 2009
Location data: Belem, PA Brazil
Place: Belem, PA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker and shot by a client.
Sources: TvT project: Diario do Para 26.06.2009
year: 2009

Name: Luana
Age: 22
Profession: not reported
Date: 24/06/09
sort by this date: 24/06/09
Month: June, 2009
Location data: Maceio, AL Brazil
Place: Maceio, AL
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Gazeta do Web 24.06.2009 & Alagoas 24horas 25.06.2009
year: 2009

Name: (Enrique Jhosvani) Guevara
Age: 42
Profession: stylist
Date: 24/06/09
sort by this date: 24/06/09
Month: June, 2009
Location data: Ancon, Lima Peru
Place: Ancon, Lima
Region: Central and South America
Country: Peru
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The body was found inside a box nearby the police station of Ancon, Lima. The victim worked as a stylist in a shopping center.
Sources: TvT project: La República 26.06.2009
year: 2009

Name: Hadise
Age: 19
Profession: not reported
Date: 29/06/09
sort by this date: 29/06/09
Month: June, 2009
Location data: Merter, Istanbul Turkey
Place: Merter, Istanbul
Region: Europe
Country: Turkey
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Kaos GL-Ankara, TGEU Mailinglist 06.07.2009; Nefret Cinayetlerini Duyuruyoruz, blog, 3.07.2009
year: 2009

Name: (Christian Roberto) Thomson Henríquez
Age: 37
Profession: not reported
Date: 29/06/09
sort by this date: 29/06/09
Month: June, 2009
Location data: Col. Alonzo Lacoyo, San Pedro Sula Honduras
Place: Col. Alonzo Lacoyo, San Pedro Sula
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Catrachas de Honduras, 18.12.2010
year: 2009

Name: Vicki Hernandez Castillo (Jonny Emelson Hernandez)
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 29/06/09
sort by this date: 29/06/09
Month: June, 2009
Location data: San Pedro Sula Honduras
Place: San Pedro Sula
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker and shot from a close distance in the eyes. The body showed marks of strangulation.
Sources: TvT project: Report of Human Rights Research and Promotion Center (Centro de Investigación y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos, CIPRODEH), 17.07.2009 and Report of International Human Rights Commission (Informe de la Misión Internacional de Derechos Humanos), 23.07.2009
year: 2009

Name: Valeria (Darwin) Joya
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 30/06/09
sort by this date: 30/06/09
Month: June, 2009
Location data: Tegucigalpa Honduras
Place: Tegucigalpa
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Valeria was shot in the face
Sources: TvT project: Red Lésbica Cattrachas, Feministas en Resistencia, Report “Asesinatos en el marco del golpe de estado de la comunidad LGTTBI Honduras”, IndyMedia Argentina, 07.11.2009 IGLHRC, 17.12.2009
year: 2009

Name: Martina Jackson (Martin)
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 30/06/09
sort by this date: 30/06/09
Month: June, 2009
Location data: Cerro Verde, Choloma Honduras
Place: Cerro Verde, Choloma
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location:
Cause: stoned
Remarks: Martina was raped and stoned to death.
Sources: TvT project: Red Lésbica Cattrachas, Feministas en Resistencia, Report “Asesinatos en el marco del golpe de estado de la comunidad LGTTBI Honduras”, IndyMedia Argentina, 07.11.2009 IGLHRC, 17.12.2009
year: 2009

Name: Christopher Jermaine Scott
Age: 39
Profession: not reported
Date: 01/07/09
sort by this date: 01/07/09
Month: July, 2009
Location data: Philadelphia USA
Place: Philadelphia
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: park
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was described as a man wearing womens clothes.
Sources: TvT project: NBC Philadelphia, 01.07.2009; TDOR website (www.transgenderdor.org)
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 02/07/09
sort by this date: 02/07/09
Month: July, 2009
Location data: Curitiba, PR Brazil
Place: Curitiba, PR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: burned
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker and shot from a close distance in the eyes. The body showed marks of strangulation.
Sources: TvT Partner Organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia: www.ggb.org.br
year: 2009

Name: Violeta Vergara Conde
Age: 19
Profession: sex worker
Date: 06/07/09
sort by this date: 06/07/09
Month: July, 2009
Location data: San Fransisco, Maracaibo Venezuela
Place: San Fransisco, Maracaibo
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Three clients took Violeta, who was a sex worker, and another sex worker to the San Francisco district. There they beat both with a wheel spanner and killed Violeta. The other sex worker survived and was able to escape.
Sources: TvT project: Diario La Verdad, Maracaibo, Venezuela, 07.07.2009, Red Trans de Nicaragua, 14.07.2009
year: 2009

Name: (Cesar) Torres
Age: 39
Profession: not reported
Date: 08/07/09
sort by this date: 08/07/09
Month: July, 2009
Location data: El Paso USA
Place: El Paso
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim died of the beating and suffered cuts above his eyes, broken ribs, a broken nose, a ruptured liver, wrenched neck, stab wounds and other injuries. The victim was killed by the boyfriend. An autopsy report says the victim died from blunt force trauma. The victim was described as cross-dresser. Photographs published after his death suggest that the victim was a person of color.
Sources: TvT project: El Paso Times, 11.07.2009, KDBC 4 News, Portugal.Gay 13.07.09
year: 2009

Name: (Judecir) Marinho de Oliveira
Age: 42
Profession: not reported
Date: 08/07/09
sort by this date: 08/07/09
Month: July, 2009
Location data: Fortaleza, CE Brazil
Place: Fortaleza, CE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was shot three times by men on motorbikes.
Sources: TvT project: Diario do Nordeste, 14.07.2009
year: 2009

Name: Teri Benally
Age: 42
Profession: not reported
Date: 08/07/09
sort by this date: 08/07/09
Month: July, 2009
Location data: Albuquerque USA
Place: Albuquerque
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: street/hospital
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Teri Benally was found beaten to death on a street at 1am. Teri was the third transgender Navajo murdered in this area between 2005 and 2009. Fredrick (Kelly) Watson, 32, was killed June 9 this year and Ryan Shey Hoskie, 23, was found beaten to death in January 2005.
Sources: TvT project: Native Out, 08.07.2009
year: 2009

Name: Nicoll Hernandez
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 08/07/09
sort by this date: 08/07/09
Month: July, 2009
Location data: Carrera 8, Santiago de Cali Colombia
Place: Carrera 8, Santiago de Cali
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Nicoll was killed on a street by four gun shots in the early morning of 8 July. She was in the company of a friend, headed towards her apartment.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Observatorio Ciudadano Trans
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 15/07/09
sort by this date: 15/07/09
Month: July, 2009
Location data: Aparecida de Goiania, GO Brazil
Place: Aparecida de Goiania, GO
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: hospital
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: O Globo.com, 17.07.2009
year: 2009

Name: Fernanda Cerqueira da Silva
Age: 18
Profession: sex worker
Date: 17/07/09
sort by this date: 17/07/09
Month: July, 2009
Location data: Vila Barao, Sorocaba, SP Brazil
Place: Vila Barao, Sorocaba, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Fernanda was a sex worker and shot to death by a client after he refused to pay the requested sum for the service. He also injured another trans sex worker .
Sources: TvT project: Jornal Cruzeiro do Sul, 17.07.2009
year: 2009

Name: (Jesús Gerardo) Ávalos
Age: 22
Profession: sex worker
Date: 17/07/09
sort by this date: 17/07/09
Month: July, 2009
Location data: not reported Mexico
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker and killed during work.
Sources: TvT project: El Siglo de Torreón, México, 18.07.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 18/07/09
sort by this date: 18/07/09
Month: July, 2009
Location data: Sensonate El Salvador
Place: Sensonate
Region: Central and South America
Country: El Salvador
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The body was found in the district Piedra de Moler, in Nahulingo.
Sources: TvT project: Diario Co Latino, 20.07.2009 and La Prensa Gráfica, El Salvador 19.07.2009
year: 2009

Name: (Walace) de Souza
Age: 21
Profession: not reported
Date: 20/07/09
sort by this date: 20/07/09
Month: July, 2009
Location data: Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil
Place: Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization Grupo Gay da Bahia (www.ggb.org.br)
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: 27
Profession: not reported
Date: 23/07/09
sort by this date: 23/07/09
Month: July, 2009
Location data: Penang Malaysia
Place: Penang
Region: Asia
Country: Malaysia
Location:
Cause: head injury
Remarks: The victim was found by a security guard, lying in a pool of blood. She was taken to a hospital where she died 12 hours later as a result of head injury.
Sources: TvT project: www.transgenderdor.org
year: 2009

Name: Bianca
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 25/07/09
sort by this date: 25/07/09
Month: July, 2009
Location data: Joao Pessoa, PB Brazil
Place: Joao Pessoa, PB
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Bianca was killed by three adolescents (16, 17, and 18 years of age) who stated that they killed her because she wanted to have oral sex with them.
Sources: TvT project: Mix Brasil, 27.07.2009
year: 2009

Name: Beyonce (Eric) Lee
Age: 21
Profession: not reported
Date: 26/07/09
sort by this date: 26/07/09
Month: July, 2009
Location data: New Orleans USA
Place: New Orleans
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Lee was a drag performer who dressed and performed as the famous singer Beyonce.
Sources: TvT project: www.transgenderdor.org
year: 2009

Name: Archie Avis Brooks
Age: 47
Profession: not reported
Date: 26/07/09
sort by this date: 26/07/09
Month: July, 2009
Location data: Hattiesburg USA
Place: Hattiesburg
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Archie was an FTM. He was stabbed to death after having an argument with his companion Devin Fortune, 28, who was arrested for slaying the victim.
Sources: TvT project: Hattiesburg American, 05.08.2009
year: 2009

Name: (Kleberson Allan) dos Anjos Santos
Age: 18
Profession: not reported
Date: 02/08/09
sort by this date: 02/08/09
Month: August, 2009
Location data: Ribeirao Pires, SP Brazil
Place: Ribeirao Pires, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Diário do Grande ABC 03.08.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 08/08/09
sort by this date: 08/08/09
Month: August, 2009
Location data: Valle del Cauca Colombia
Place: Valle del Cauca
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: This homicide was confirmed by "Investigador del CTI John Fernando"
Sources: TvT partner organization: Observatorio Ciudadano Trans
year: 2009

Name: (Hector Emilio) Maradiaga Snaider
Age: 24
Profession: waitress
Date: 09/08/09
sort by this date: 09/08/09
Month: August, 2009
Location data: Tegucigalpa Honduras
Place: Tegucigalpa
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was shot three times. Her body was found one kilometer from Colonia Lomas de Toncontin. The victim worked in a restaurant; she had an appointment with some friends.
Sources: TvT project: El Heraldo, 10/08/09 and IGLHRC, 17.12.2009
year: 2009

Name: La George (Jorge Eliecer Burbano)
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 16/08/09
sort by this date: 16/08/09
Month: August, 2009
Location data: Bogota Colombia
Place: Bogota
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: La Prensa Escrita 12/09/2009
year: 2009

Name: Kanan al Muthia
Age: 42
Profession: not reported
Date: 25/08/09
sort by this date: 25/08/09
Month: August, 2009
Location data: Setapak Malaysia
Place: Setapak
Region: Asia
Country: Malaysia
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Malay Mail 27.08.2009
year: 2009

Name: Tylia Mack
Age: 21
Profession: not reported
Date: 26/08/09
sort by this date: 26/08/09
Month: August, 2009
Location data: Washington D.C. USA
Place: Washington D.C.
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Tyla and another transgender person were stabbed and brought to hospital. Tylia died in the hospital, the other one was expected to recover. The police investigated the crime as a possible hate crime. The victim was a person of color (based on photographs published after death).
Sources: TvT project: Examiner, 01.09.2009
year: 2009

Name: Paulina Ibarra
Age: 24
Profession: not reported
Date: 28/08/09
sort by this date: 28/08/09
Month: August, 2009
Location data: Hollywood USA
Place: Hollywood
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The suspected murderer was a homeless person who was known to frequent transgender sex workers.
Sources: TvT project: ABC 7, 07.09.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: August, 2009
sort by this date: 30/08/09
Month: August, 2009
Location data: Algiers Algeria
Place: Algiers
Region: Africa
Country: Algeria
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim was a young trans woman who had a degree from the Algiers University, but was abandoned by her family and worked as a sex worker. She was attacked at night in the street by a group of strangers who beat her up severely. She was brought to hospital, where she died shortly after. The crime happened in the first two weeks of August.
Sources: TvT project: www.bekhsoos.com/web/2009/09/algerian-transsexual-woman-murdered/ 07.09.2009
year: 2009

Name: Michelle Torres (Milton)
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 30/08/09
sort by this date: 30/08/09
Month: August, 2009
Location data: San Pedro Sula Honduras
Place: San Pedro Sula
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Michelle was with two other trans sex workers talking with a client when they were approached by a man in a car who threatened them to leave. When Michelle replied, he took out a weapon and shot her in the head.
Sources: TvT project: Red Lesbica Cattrachas, Feministas en Resistencia, Report Asesinatos en el marco del golpe de estado de la comunidad LGTTBI Honduras, IndyMedia Argentina, 07.11.2009 and IGLHRC, 17.12.2009
year: 2009

Name: Carol de Souza
Age: 17
Profession: sex worker
Date: 13/09/09
sort by this date: 13/09/09
Month: September, 2009
Location data: Caratinga, MG Brazil
Place: Caratinga, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Carol was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT project: TV Super Canal Caratinga & Blog William Chaves, 15.09.2009
year: 2009

Name: Samara da Silva
Age: 28
Profession: not reported
Date: 17/09/09
sort by this date: 17/09/09
Month: September, 2009
Location data: Jundiai, SP Brazil
Place: Jundiai, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: motel
Cause: strangled
Remarks: The victim was found 'tattooed' with a piece of glass of a beer bottle. The suspect told the police that he thought the victim was a woman and killed her when realizing she was a trans person.
Sources: TvT project: Jornal de Itupeva, 20.09.2009, Agência Anhangüera de Notícias, 23.09.2009
year: 2009

Name: Fernanda Salome Miranda Mata (Jorge Samuel)
Age: 21
Profession: not reported
Date: 20/09/09
sort by this date: 20/09/09
Month: September, 2009
Location data: San Pedro Sula Honduras
Place: San Pedro Sula
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: El Tiempo, 21.09.2009 and IGLHRC, 17.12.2009
year: 2009

Name: Sayda Reynieri (Carlos) Reinieris Salome
Age: 33
Profession: not reported
Date: 20/09/09
sort by this date: 20/09/09
Month: September, 2009
Location data: San Pedro Sula Honduras
Place: San Pedro Sula
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: El Tiempo, 21.09.2009 and IGLHRC, 17.12.2009
year: 2009

Name: (Rusbel Antonio) Torres Jesus
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: 21/09/09
sort by this date: 21/09/09
Month: September, 2009
Location data: Chimbote Peru
Place: Chimbote
Region: Central and South America
Country: Peru
Location: own shop
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a liquor seller. She was attacked in her own shop by four persons who beat her and shot her when she tried to escape.
Sources: TvT project: El Comercio 22.09.2009
year: 2009

Name: Kristina Lucaj
Age: 38
Profession: sex worker
Date: 03/10/09
sort by this date: 03/10/09
Month: October, 2009
Location data: Tirana Albania
Place: Tirana
Region: Europe
Country: Albania
Location: abandoned building
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Kristina was stabbed in the neck in an abandoned building and died en route to Tiranas hospital due to blood loss. Kristina had previously been arrested for prostitution.
Sources: TvT project: Balkan Insight 04.10.2009
year: 2009

Name: Linsia C.C.
Age: 40
Profession: sex worker
Date: 05/10/09
sort by this date: 05/10/09
Month: October, 2009
Location data: Burgos Spain
Place: Burgos
Region: Europe
Country: Spain
Location:
Cause: strangled
Remarks: Linsia was a sex worker and migrant of Colombian descent. She was killed on 4 or 5 October.
Sources: TvT project: El Mundo, 08.09.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 06/10/09
sort by this date: 06/10/09
Month: October, 2009
Location data: Havana Cuba
Place: Havana
Region: Central and South America
Country: Cuba
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victims body showed three stabs, two in the breast and one in the back.
Sources: TvT project: Janjaque, Fundación Cubana LGTB, 14.09.2009
year: 2009

Name: Marion Lanza
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 09/10/09
sort by this date: 09/10/09
Month: October, 2009
Location data: Tegucigalpa Honduras
Place: Tegucigalpa
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The crime was denounced by the Association LGTTBI Arcoiris.
Sources: TvT project: Red Lésbica Cattrachas, Feministas en Resistencia, Report “Asesinatos en el marco del golpe de estado de la comunidad LGTTBI Honduras”, IndyMedia Argentina, 07.11.2009 and IGLHRC, 17.12.2009
year: 2009

Name: Monserrat (Elder Noe) Maradiaga
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 10/10/09
sort by this date: 10/10/09
Month: October, 2009
Location data: San Pedro Sula Honduras
Place: San Pedro Sula
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location: street
Cause: run-over by car
Remarks: Monserrat was an activist of the Travesty, Transgender and Transsexual Group of San Pedro Sula (Colectivo TTT). She was on the sidewalk with two other persons. A car came by with high velocity and run over her, she died instantly. The other two persons survived.
Sources: TvT project: Red Lésbica Cattrachas, Feministas en Resistencia, Report “Asesinatos en el marco del golpe de estado de la comunidad LGTTBI Honduras”, IndyMedia Argentina, 07.11.2009 and IGLHRC, 17.12.2009
year: 2009

Name: (Romulo Emilio) de Freitas
Age: 18
Profession: sex worker
Date: 13/10/09
sort by this date: 13/10/09
Month: October, 2009
Location data: Londrina, SP Brazil
Place: Londrina, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker and attacked by three men at night and shot three times by one of them.
Sources: TvT project: Jornal de Londrina, 13.10.09
year: 2009

Name: Carolina (Edwards Jose) Gonzalez
Age: 37
Profession: hairdresser
Date: 13/10/09
sort by this date: 13/10/09
Month: October, 2009
Location data: Maracaibo Venezuela
Place: Maracaibo
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Carolina was a hairdresser. Some men that were not identified yet shot Carolina as she returned from a funeral and fled the scene.
Sources: TvT project: Diario La Verdad, 15.10.2009
year: 2009

Name: Andrea Waddell
Age: 29
Profession: sex worker
Date: 15/10/09
sort by this date: 15/10/09
Month: October, 2009
Location data: Brighton UK
Place: Brighton
Region: Europe
Country: UK
Location: own apartment
Cause: strangled
Remarks: Andrea was strangled before her flat was set on fire. She sometimes worked as a sex worker, taking clients to her flat.
Sources: TvT project: Daily Mail, 19.10.2009
year: 2009

Name: (Jose) Ribeiro Alves Neto
Age: 40
Profession: public official
Date: 16/10/09
sort by this date: 16/10/09
Month: October, 2009
Location data: Valparaiso, SP Brazil
Place: Valparaiso, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: strangled
Remarks: The victim was a public official.
Sources: TvT partner organization Grupo Gay da Bahia (www.ggb.org.br)
year: 2009

Name: (Tamires) de Tal
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 19/10/09
sort by this date: 19/10/09
Month: October, 2009
Location data: Taguatinga Sul, DF Brazil
Place: Taguatinga Sul, DF
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was part of a group of trans sex workers who were shot by two men at night. The suspects, two males in their twenties, were arrested by the police.
Sources: TvT project: Correio Brasiliense, 19.10.09
year: 2009

Name: Meena (Hijra)
Age: 31
Profession: not reported
Date: 20/10/09
sort by this date: 20/10/09
Month: October, 2009
Location data: New Delhi India
Place: New Delhi
Region: Asia
Country: India
Location: guruji's house
Cause: throat-cut
Remarks: Meena was killed together with Vimlesh, a Guruji, in Vimlesh's house by the driver and the body guard of the other victim and another man who stole her jewelry and car. The three suspects were later caught by the police. Both victims were found lying in a pool of blood.
Sources: TvT project: Times of India, 21.10.2009, PTI News 04.11.2009
year: 2009

Name: Vimlesh (Hijra)
Age: 47
Profession: Guruji (leader of hijra community)
Date: 20/10/09
sort by this date: 20/10/09
Month: October, 2009
Location data: New Delhi India
Place: New Delhi
Region: Asia
Country: India
Location: own apartment
Cause: throat-cut
Remarks: Vimlesh was killed together with another hijra by her driver, her body guard and another man who stole her jewelry and car and were later arrested by the police. Both victims were found lying in a pool of blood.
Sources: TvT project: Times of India, 21.10.2009, PTI News 04.11.2009
year: 2009

Name: Kimberly (Marco Andres) Medina Andrade
Age: 25
Profession: sex worker
Date: 21/10/09
sort by this date: 21/10/09
Month: October, 2009
Location data: Santiago de Chile Chile
Place: Santiago de Chile
Region: Central and South America
Country: Chile
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Kimberly and another transsexual (Justo Hernandez Arriagada), sex workers, were attacked by a group of trans persons, named Team Mecano. Kimberly died in the attack, Arriagada was slightly injured. Jose Luis Salazar Almeyda, 18 years old, surrendered to police confessing to be the author of the crime.
Sources: TvT project: La Nación, 22.10.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: 27
Profession: not reported
Date: 24/10/09
sort by this date: 24/10/09
Month: October, 2009
Location data: Campinas, SP Brazil
Place: Campinas, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: drive-in
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker and went with a client into a drive-in and was stabbed there. She suffered severe injuries in the right arm, the breasts, the stomach and the hips. She was between 25 and 28 years old.
Sources: TvT project: AthosGLS, 26.10.09
year: 2009

Name: (Juan Carlos) Zelaya
Age: 32
Profession: seller
Date: 24/10/09
sort by this date: 24/10/09
Month: October, 2009
Location data: San Pedro Sula Honduras
Place: San Pedro Sula
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The victim was a seller. The victims body was found completely naked.
Sources: TvT project: La Tribuna, 26.10.2009 and IGLHRC, 17.12.2009
year: 2009

Name: Katherine Noriega
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 25/10/09
sort by this date: 25/10/09
Month: October, 2009
Location data: Bogota Colombia
Place: Bogota
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT project: Portal Participación Bogotá, Gobierno de Colombia 02.11.2009
year: 2009

Name: Dee Green
Age: 25
Profession: not reported
Date: 26/10/09
sort by this date: 26/10/09
Month: October, 2009
Location data: Baltimore USA
Place: Baltimore
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: street/hospital
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Police found Dee lying unconscious and bleeding in the street. They took her to the hospital where she died a half hour later. The victim was a person of color (based on photographs published after death).
Sources: TvT project: www.transgenderdor.org
year: 2009

Name: Kenia Mayli
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 26/10/09
sort by this date: 26/10/09
Month: October, 2009
Location data: Guatemala City Guatemala
Place: Guatemala City
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Kenias body showed signs of torture. Before being shot she was run over by a car.
Sources: TvT project: Reinas de la Noche www.reinasdelanoche.org.gt
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: 25
Profession: not reported
Date: 29/10/09
sort by this date: 29/10/09
Month: October, 2009
Location data: La Libertad El Salvador
Place: La Libertad
Region: Central and South America
Country: El Salvador
Location: corn field
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was between 20 and 30 years old. The crime was a double killing (of a trans person and of another woman). There is no evidence of the who committed the crime, but the area is controlled by a youth gang, the mara salvatrucha.
Sources: TvT project: Source: “Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide” research project: elsalvador.com 30.10.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 29/10/09
sort by this date: 29/10/09
Month: October, 2009
Location data: Quezaltepque El Salvador
Place: Quezaltepque
Region: Central and South America
Country: El Salvador
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim and another woman were murdered by a group of men who appeared to be gang members.
Sources: TvT project: El Salvador, 30.10.2009
year: 2009

Name: Ratni
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 29/10/09
sort by this date: 29/10/09
Month: October, 2009
Location data: Solan, Himachal, Pradesh, India
Place: Solan
Region: Asia
Country: India
Location: friend's apartment
Cause: slit throat
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Thai Indian: 03.12.2011
year: 2009

Name: Deshraj Mahant
Age: not reported
Profession: Guru
Date: 29/10/09
sort by this date: 29/10/09
Month: October, 2009
Location data: Solan, Himachal, Pradesh, India
Place: Solan
Region: Asia
Country: India
Location: own apartment
Cause: slit throat
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Thai Indian: 03.12.2011
year: 2009

Name: Wanda Fox
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker, activist
Date: 30/10/09
sort by this date: 30/10/09
Month: October, 2009
Location data: Bogota Colombia
Place: Bogota
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Wanda was a sex worker and an activist of Fundación Procrear and Proyecto Zona Trans. She was shot by several individuals from a car.
Sources: TvT project: Fundación Procrear 29/10/2009 and Portal Participación Bogotá, Gobierno de Colombia 02.11.2009
year: 2009

Name: Xiao Sichuan
Age: 30
Profession: sex worker
Date: October, 2009
sort by this date: 31/10/09
Month: October, 2009
Location data: Kunming China
Place: Kunming
Region: Asia
Country: China
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Xiao Sichuan was a sex worker and killed by a client.
Sources: TvT partner organisation: Trans China
year: 2009

Name: Jessica Andreina
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 31/10/09
sort by this date: 31/10/09
Month: October, 2009
Location data: Puerto Barrios Nicaragua
Place: Puerto Barrios
Region: Central and South America
Country: Nicaragua
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Jessica's body was found by other trans persons.
Sources: TvT project: Reinas de la Noche www.reinasdelanoche.org.gt
year: 2009

Name: Lam Larissa (Rigoberto Wilson Carrasco)
Age: 17
Profession: not reported
Date: 01/11/09
sort by this date: 01/11/09
Month: November, 2009
Location data: El Zamorano, Francisco Morazan Honduras
Place: El Zamorano, Francisco Morazan
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Various men attacked the victim.
Sources: TvT project: Tiempo 02/11/2009, IGLHRC, 17.12.2009
year: 2009

Name: Sabrina Garcia Cajas
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 02/11/09
sort by this date: 02/11/09
Month: November, 2009
Location data: Guatemala City Guatemala
Place: Guatemala City
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location:
Cause: stoned
Remarks: Sabrina was a member of OTRANS, Reinas de la Noche. She was brutally stoned.
Sources: TvT project: Reinas de la Noche www.reinasdelanoche.org.gt
year: 2009

Name: (Luis Sosa)
Age: 57
Profession: not reported
Date: 03/11/09
sort by this date: 03/11/09
Month: November, 2009
Location data: Montevideo Uruguay
Place: Montevideo
Region: Central and South America
Country: Uruguay
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was shot in the head and thorax.
Sources: TvT project: La Republica, 06.11.2009
year: 2009

Name: (Aglailson Rodrigues Ferreira)
Age: 22
Profession: not reported
Date: 04/11/09
sort by this date: 04/11/09
Month: November, 2009
Location data: Fortaleza, CE Brazil
Place: Fortaleza, CE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: burned
Remarks: The victim was tied, gagged and burned. The victim had received threats before the killing.
Sources: TvT project: Diario do Nordeste 15.11.2009
year: 2009

Name: Destiny Lauren
Age: 29
Profession: sex worker
Date: 10/11/09
sort by this date: 10/11/09
Month: November, 2009
Location data: Leighton UK
Place: Leighton
Region: Europe
Country: UK
Location:
Cause: strangled
Remarks: Destiny was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT project: Islington Gazette 12.10.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 11/11/09
sort by this date: 11/11/09
Month: November, 2009
Location data: Londrina, SP Brazil
Place: Londrina, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: burned
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia: www.ggb.org.br
year: 2009

Name: (Jorge Steven) López Mercado
Age: 19
Profession: sex worker
Date: 12/11/09
sort by this date: 12/11/09
Month: November, 2009
Location data: Caguas Puerto Rico
Place: Caguas
Region: Central and South America
Country: Puerto Rico
Location:
Cause: throat-cut
Remarks: The victim worked as a sex worker. The confessed murderer, 26 years old, was unable to pay the bail of $4 million and was imprisoned. He murdered the victim after noticing that she was a trans person. The Justice Department, along with representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Puerto Rico Legal University Hospital, has declared its intention to treat the murder as a hate crime.
Sources: TvT project: El Vocero, 18/11/2009 and 24/11/2009
year: 2009

Name: Brenda
Age: 32
Profession: sex worker
Date: 20/11/09
sort by this date: 20/11/09
Month: November, 2009
Location data: Rome Italy
Place: Rome
Region: Europe
Country: Italy
Location: own apartment
Cause: asphyxiation
Remarks: Brenda was a sex worker of Brazilian descent and a witness to a 'political sex scandal'. Her apartment was set on fire. The police are investigating murder.
Sources: TvT project: Telegraph 20.11.2009, Netzeitung 21.11.2009 and www.republica.it
year: 2009

Name: (Marconi William) Pereira
Age: 27
Profession: TV presenter
Date: 21/11/09
sort by this date: 21/11/09
Month: November, 2009
Location data: Itabira, MG Brazil
Place: Itabira, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a TV presenter.
Sources: TvT partner organization Grupo Gay da Bahia: (Tabelas 2009)
year: 2009

Name: (Wanchai) Tongwijit
Age: 35
Profession: employee
Date: 21/11/09
sort by this date: 21/11/09
Month: November, 2009
Location data: Tambon Wichit, Phuket City Thailand
Place: Tambon Wichit, Phuket City
Region: Asia
Country: Thailand
Location: hotel
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a restaurant employee and was allegedly shot by 22 year-old Phichai Lakkor in a short-time hotel. The suspected murderer was caught because he stole her mobile phone.
Sources: TvT project: Phuket Gazette, 23.11.2009 and 26.11.2009
year: 2009

Name: Namanda
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 22/11/09
sort by this date: 22/11/09
Month: November, 2009
Location data: Goiana, PE Brazil
Place: Goiana, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization Grupo Gay da Bahia: (Tabelas 2009)
year: 2009

Name: (Grazivaldo) Martins
Age: 47
Profession: sex worker
Date: 23/11/09
sort by this date: 23/11/09
Month: November, 2009
Location data: Salvador, BA Brazil
Place: Salvador, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: hanged
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization Grupo Gay da Bahia: (Tabelas 2009)
year: 2009

Name: Roberta (Goncalver) Siqueira Herbert
Age: 31
Profession: sex worker
Date: 24/11/09
sort by this date: 24/11/09
Month: November, 2009
Location data: via Ribes, Centocelle, Rome, Italy
Place: Rome
Region: Europe
Country: Italy
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was of Brazilian descent. The perpetrator, a 22year old Italian man confessed the crime and stated that he acted in self-defense.
Sources: TvT project: Il Mattino, 30.12.2009
year: 2009

Name: Kelly (Alejandro) Correa Pichardo
Age: 24
Profession: sex worker, student, activist
Date: 25/11/09
sort by this date: 25/11/09
Month: November, 2009
Location data: Santo Domingo Dominican Republic
Place: Santo Domingo
Region: Central and South America
Country: Dominican Republic
Location: motorbike
Cause: shot
Remarks: Kelly was a medical student and the founder of the trans group Trans Siempre Amigas (Transsa). Kelly worked as sex worker. She was on a motorbike with another person, who was also injured. They were shot by several men, also on a motorbike.
Sources: TvT project: El Nacional, 26.11.2009
year: 2009

Name: Emanuele Fosquerau de Oliveira
Age: 25
Profession: sex worker
Date: 25/11/09
sort by this date: 25/11/09
Month: November, 2009
Location data: Campo Grande, MS Brazil
Place: Campo Grande, MS
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Emanuele was a sex worker and was shot at night by three 16 year-olds and died in hospital.
Sources: TvT project: Parana Online 26.11.2009
year: 2009

Name: Rui
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 25/11/09
sort by this date: 25/11/09
Month: November, 2009
Location data: Campo Grande, MS Brazil
Place: Campo Grande, MS
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The police suspect a crime of passion.
Sources: TvT project: Campo Grande News 25.12.2009
year: 2009

Name: La Lola (Francisco Javier) Mena Aguilar
Age: 17
Profession: not reported
Date: 29/11/09
sort by this date: 29/11/09
Month: November, 2009
Location data: Rivas Nicaragua
Place: Rivas
Region: Central and South America
Country: Nicaragua
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: La Lola was stabbed in the back in the 'red light district' of Rivas. She was brought to hospital, were she died in the surgery room due to an internal haemorrhage.
Sources: TvT project: La Prensa, 01.12.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: October/November, 2009
sort by this date: 30/11/09
Month: October/November, 2009
Location data: Londrina, SP Brazil
Place: Londrina, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The victim was killed between 26 October and 3 November 2009.
Sources: TvT project: Jornal de Londrina, 10.10.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: November, 2009
sort by this date: 30/11/09
Month: November, 2009
Location data: Santiago de Cali Colombia
Place: Santiago de Cali
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The killing became known through employees of a morgue, who referred to a dead person as "mona tetona".
Sources: TvT partner organization: Observatorio Ciudadano Trans
year: 2009

Name: Giovanna Fernandes
Age: 31
Profession: not reported
Date: 01/12/09
sort by this date: 01/12/09
Month: December, 2009
Location data: Rome Italy
Place: Rome
Region: Europe
Country: Italy
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Giovana is assumed to have been killed between 1 and 15 December. The body of Giovana, who was of Brazilian descent, was found inside a garbage bag in a state of advanced decomposition, along with a jacket, a pair of black sandals and a ring.
Sources: TvT project: Noticias Terra 29.12.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 01/12/09
sort by this date: 01/12/09
Month: December, 2009
Location data: Guayaquil Ecuador
Place: Guayaquil
Region: Central and South America
Country: Ecuador
Location: own apartment
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The victim was killed in the own house between 30 November and 6 December 2009.
Sources: TvT project: El Comercio, 07.12.2009
year: 2009

Name: Debora da Costa
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 02/12/09
sort by this date: 02/12/09
Month: December, 2009
Location data: Recife, PE Brazil
Place: Recife, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The murderer shot the victim six times and fled in a van. Debora had received threats for non-payment of debts.
Sources: TvT project: JC Online 03.12.2009
year: 2009

Name: Yuli (Julio Cesar Almonia Anchica)
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 05/12/09
sort by this date: 05/12/09
Month: December, 2009
Location data: Santiago de Cali Colombia
Place: Santiago de Cali
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Yuli was killed with various stabs. Her body was found in the barrio Camilo Torres de Cali.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Observatorio Ciudadano Trans
year: 2009

Name: Filhinha
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 08/12/09
sort by this date: 08/12/09
Month: December, 2009
Location data: Uberaba, MG Brazil
Place: Uberaba, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Filinha was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT Partner Organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2009)
year: 2009

Name: Mariah Malina Qualls
Age: 23
Profession: not reported
Date: 09/12/09
sort by this date: 09/12/09
Month: December, 2009
Location data: 402 Broadway, San Francisco USA
Place: 402 Broadway, San Francisco
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: hotel
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Mariah was found dead in a residential hotel.
Sources: TvT project: Bay Area Reporter 17.12.2009 and KTVU 19.12.2009
year: 2009

Name: Sabrina Drummond
Age: 43
Profession: social worker, activist
Date: 12/12/09
sort by this date: 12/12/09
Month: December, 2009
Location data: Sao Luis, MA Brazil
Place: Sao Luis, MA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Sabrina was president of the Travesti andTransexual Association of Maranhao (Atrama) and an outreach social worker for trans sex workers, distributing condoms and information material about AIDS/HIV and STDs. The perpetrator is suspected to be a 'serial killer' who has murdered two other trans persons.
Sources: TvT project: Jornal Pequeno 14.12.2009 & Athos GLS 15.12.2009
year: 2009

Name: Estrella (Jose Angel) Venegas
Age: 32
Profession: not reported
Date: 13/12/09
sort by this date: 13/12/09
Month: December, 2009
Location data: Mexicali, Baja California Mexico
Place: Mexicali, Baja California
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: TDOR website (www.transgenderdor.org)
year: 2009

Name: (Luis Arturo) Murillo
Age: 25
Profession: not reported
Date: 15/12/09
sort by this date: 15/12/09
Month: December, 2009
Location data: San Pedro Sula Honduras
Place: San Pedro Sula
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location:
Cause: dismembered
Remarks: The body was found dismembered with severed genitals, in a white-and-pink sack on the road between Puerto Cortes and San Pedro Sula. The head was not found. The police surmise that the victim was a trans person because her fingernails were painted pink.
Sources: TvT project: La Prensa, 15.12.2009, La Tribuna, 17.12.2009
year: 2009

Name: Talia
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 15/12/09
sort by this date: 15/12/09
Month: December, 2009
Location data: Belem Brazil
Place: Belem
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization Grupo Gay da Bahia: (Tabelas 2009)
year: 2009

Name: (Euzenilson Paulino) Carneiro da Silva
Age: 23
Profession: not reported
Date: 16/12/09
sort by this date: 16/12/09
Month: December, 2009
Location data: Recife, PE Brazil
Place: Recife, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was shot to death, along with her mother, by two hooded men on a motorbike. Two friends of the victim were also shot but survived. The police suspect that the homicides are linked to drug trafficking.
Sources: TvT project: Diario do Nordeste 17.12.2009
year: 2009

Name: (Jose) dos Santos Bispo
Age: 43
Profession: religious leader (pai de santo)
Date: 16/12/09
sort by this date: 16/12/09
Month: December, 2009
Location data: Tancredo Neves Brazil
Place: Tancredo Neves
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: own apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a religious leader.
Sources: TvT project: A Tarde Online 17.12.2009
year: 2009

Name: Renata Pinheiro de Souza
Age: 37
Profession: not reported
Date: 20/12/09
sort by this date: 20/12/09
Month: December, 2009
Location data: Brasilia, DF Brazil
Place: Brasilia, DF
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Victim was found stripped naked. The victims head was smashed with a piece of a broken toilet.
Sources: TvT project: Clica Brasilia 20.12.2009
year: 2009

Name: Fernanda
Age: 36
Profession: not reported
Date: 23/12/09
sort by this date: 23/12/09
Month: December, 2009
Location data: Maceio, AL Brazil
Place: Maceio, AL
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The perpetrator fled on a scooter.
Sources: TvT project: Correio do Povo 23.12.2009
year: 2009

Name: N.N.
Age: 17
Profession: sex worker
Date: 24/12/09
sort by this date: 24/12/09
Month: December, 2009
Location data: Niteroi, RJ Brazil
Place: Niteroi, RJ
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker and was executed by two young men on a motorbike after leaving a sex workers hotel.
Sources: TvT project: O Sao Goncalo 24.12.2009
year: 2009

Name: Jo de Souza Bevenites
Age: 48
Profession: not reported
Date: 29/12/09
sort by this date: 29/12/09
Month: December, 2009
Location data: Foz do Iguacu, PR Brazil
Place: Foz do Iguacu, PR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was stabbed by a man on a motorbike near a bus station.
Sources: TvT project: O Globo 31.12.2009
year: 2009

Name: Tania Santos
Age: 19
Profession: not reported
Date: December, 2009
sort by this date: 31/12/09
Month: December, 2009
Location data: Maceio, AL Brazil
Place: Maceio, AL
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks:
Sources: TvT Partner Organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2009

Name: (Jose Javier) Quiroz Terrazas
Age: 19
Profession: not reported
Date: December, 2009
sort by this date: 31/12/09
Month: December, 2009
Location data: Delicias Mexico
Place: Delicias
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Four hooded men in a van approached the victim and another person, forcing them to give their valuables. The victim ran away and was shot down. The police found the body in a dress.
Sources: TvT project: El Sol de Parral, 20.12.2009
year: 2009

Name: (Aries) Alcantara
Age: 28
Profession: hairdresser
Date: December, 2009
sort by this date: 31/12/09
Month: December, 2009
Location data: Obando, Bulacan Philippines
Place: Obando, Bulacan
Region: Asia
Country: Philippines
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a hairdresser. She was stabbed in front of a restaurant.
Sources: TvT partner organization STRAP
year: 2009

Name: (Luiz) da Silva
Age: 47
Profession: not reported
Date: December, 2009
sort by this date: 31/12/09
Month: December, 2009
Location data: Cuiaba, MT Brazil
Place: Cuiaba, MT
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: 24 Horas News 31.12.2009
year: 2009

Name: Wong
Age: 64
Profession: not reported
Date: 31/12/09
sort by this date: 31/12/09
Month: December, 2009
Location data: Johor Baharu Malaysia
Place: Johor Baharu
Region: Asia
Country: Malaysia
Location: own apartment
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was killed in his own apartment and robbed. There were no signs of forced entry.
Sources: TvT project: New Strait Times and and Bernama Malaysian News Agency 01.01.2010
year: 2009

Name: Kim
Age: 24
Profession: hostess
Date: 2010
sort by this date: 01/01/10
Month: 2010
Location data: Gyeongsan City Republic of Korea
Place: Gyeongsan City
Region: Asia
Country: Republic of Korea
Location:
Cause: strangled
Remarks: Kim worked as a hostess. The court sentenced the perpetrator for murder related to robbery
Sources: TvT partner organisations STRAP (Philippenes) and Jirung-e (R.O. Korea)
year: 2010

Name: Dayanna (Marco Antonio Mera Quinayas)
Age: 25
Profession: sex worker
Date: 2010
sort by this date: 01/01/10
Month: 2010
Location data: Santiago de Cali Colombia
Place: Santiago de Cali
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Dayanna was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Observatorio Ciudadano Trans
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2010
sort by this date: 01/01/10
Month: 2010
Location data: not reported Azerbaijan
Place: not reported
Region: Asia
Country: Azerbaijan
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT questionnaire research
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2010
sort by this date: 01/01/10
Month: 2010
Location data: not reported Azerbaijan
Place: not reported
Region: Asia
Country: Azerbaijan
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT questionnaire research
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2010
sort by this date: 01/01/10
Month: 2010
Location data: Yacubia, Gran Chaco, Tarija Bolivia
Place: Yacubia, Gran Chaco, Tarija
Region: Central and South America
Country: Bolivia
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim was severely beaten with heavy objects until she lost her left eyeball.
Sources: TvT project: La Prensa, online portal, 3.2.2011
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2010
sort by this date: 01/01/10
Month: 2010
Location data: Yacubia, Gran Chaco, Tarija Bolivia
Place: Yacubia, Gran Chaco, Tarija
Region: Central and South America
Country: Bolivia
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: La Prensa, online portal, 3.2.2011
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2010
sort by this date: 01/01/10
Month: 2010
Location data: Santa Cruz Bolivia
Place: Santa Cruz
Region: Central and South America
Country: Bolivia
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The victim was a young travesti. She disappeared without leaving notice. Several days later, a stranger entered in contact with her family, asking for a ransom, but reportedly did not insist on this request. Two months later, the victims body was found in a local creek in a state of decomposition.
Sources: TvT project: La Prensa, online portal, 3.2.2011
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2010
sort by this date: 01/01/10
Month: 2010
Location data: Trinidad, Beni Bolivia
Place: Trinidad, Beni
Region: Central and South America
Country: Bolivia
Location: own apartment
Cause: suffocated
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: La Prensa, online portal, 3.2.2011
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2010
sort by this date: 01/01/10
Month: 2010
Location data: Yacubia, Gran Chaco, Tarija Bolivia
Place: Yacubia, Gran Chaco, Tarija
Region: Central and South America
Country: Bolivia
Location:
Cause: suffocated
Remarks: The victim was tortured and a broomstick was inserted into her rectum. She was then strangled to death.
Sources: TvT project: La Prensa, online portal, 3.2.2011
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2010
sort by this date: 01/01/10
Month: 2010
Location data: Dalian China
Place: Dalian
Region: Asia
Country: China
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organisation Trans China
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2010
sort by this date: 01/01/10
Month: 2010
Location data: Dalian China
Place: Dalian
Region: Asia
Country: China
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organisation Trans China
year: 2010

Name: (Toninho)
Age: 27
Profession: sex worker
Date: 02/01/10
sort by this date: 02/01/10
Month: January, 2010
Location data: Campo Largo, PR Brazil
Place: Campo Largo, PR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker. It is suspected that she was killed by a client, who tried to suffocate her with a plastic bag before beating her to death.
Sources: TvT project: Parana Online, 04.01.2010; TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: 02/01/10
sort by this date: 02/01/10
Month: January, 2010
Location data: Naples, Italy Italy
Place: Naples, Italy
Region: Europe
Country: Italy
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was found near a market place and was beaten before she was killed.
Sources: TvT project: La Repubblica, 03.01.2009
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 04/01/10
sort by this date: 04/01/10
Month: January, 2010
Location data: Sao Paulo, SP Brazil
Place: Sao Paulo, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Rodel Soriaga
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: 40185
sort by this date: 07/01/10
Month: January, 2010
Location data: Hamtic, Philippines
Place: Hamtic
Region: Asia
Country: Philippines
Location: shoreline
Cause: stabbed
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: The Philippine LGBT Hate Crime Watch (PLHCW)
year: 2010

Name: (Jose Luis) Conde
Age: 39
Profession: lawyer
Date: 09/01/10
sort by this date: 09/01/10
Month: January, 2010
Location data: Rosario Argentina
Place: Rosario
Region: Central and South America
Country: Argentina
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim was a lawyer of the Federal Administration (Administracion Federal de Ingresos Publicos).
Sources: TvT project: Diario Ciudadana 10.01.2010 and Los Andes Online, 11.01.2010
year: 2010

Name: Tina
Age: 37
Profession: not reported
Date: 16/01/10
sort by this date: 16/01/10
Month: January, 2010
Location data: Kakori, India
Place: Kakori
Region: Asia
Country: India
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Express News Service 17.01.2010
year: 2010

Name: Myra Chanel Ical
Age: 51
Profession: not reported
Date: 18/01/10
sort by this date: 18/01/10
Month: January, 2010
Location data: Houston, Texas USA
Place: Houston, Texas
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Popmatters (Online Magazine), March 18, 2010
year: 2010

Name: Ingrid Huayaba Gonzales
Age: 23
Profession: sex worker
Date: 23/01/10
sort by this date: 23/01/10
Month: January, 2010
Location data: Lima Peru
Place: Lima
Region: Central and South America
Country: Peru
Location:
Cause: thrown out of window
Remarks: Ingrid was a sex worker. She was pushed out of a window and fell down from the second floor.
Sources: TvT project: Vida de travestis (Web-Blog), 23.01.2010 and 04.05.2010
year: 2010

Name: (Fernando) Vasquez Roque
Age: 26
Profession: not reported
Date: 26/01/10
sort by this date: 26/01/10
Month: January, 2010
Location data: Lima Peru
Place: Lima
Region: Central and South America
Country: Peru
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim was tortured.
Sources: TvT project: La Republica, 27.01.2010 and Vida de travestis 27.01.2010
year: 2010

Name: Lacraia
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 26/01/10
sort by this date: 26/01/10
Month: January, 2010
Location data: Salvador, BA Brazil
Place: Salvador, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Lacraia was homeless.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Brigitte
Age: not reported
Profession: student, activist
Date: 28/01/10
sort by this date: 28/01/10
Month: January, 2010
Location data: Caracas Venezuela
Place: Caracas
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Brigitte was a student at Bolivar University, Caracas, and a trans activist of Alianza Lambda de Venezuela.
Sources: TvT project: Trans Memorial (TDOR Website), 02.02.2010
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: 30
Profession: sex worker
Date: 29/01/10
sort by this date: 29/01/10
Month: January, 2010
Location data: Belem, PA Brazil
Place: Belem, PA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 29/01/10
sort by this date: 29/01/10
Month: January, 2010
Location data: Ariquemes, RO Brazil
Place: Ariquemes, RO
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Nadia Malik (khusra)
Age: 28
Profession: not reported
Date: January, 2010
sort by this date: 31/01/10
Month: January, 2010
Location data: Rawalpindi Pakistan
Place: Rawalpindi
Region: Asia
Country: Pakistan
Location: street
Cause: run-over by car
Remarks: The victim was stabbed repeatedly and then run over by a car.
Sources: TvT project: News Vine, 07.02.2010
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: January, 2010
sort by this date: 31/01/10
Month: January, 2010
Location data: Medellin Colombia
Place: Medellin
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location: river
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The victim's body was found in the Medellin river, near the border with the municipality of Bello.
Sources: TvT project: Unidad Permanente para los Derechos Humanos, Medellin, human rights organization, report from 10.12.20 10
year: 2010

Name: (Josue) Arredondo Garcia
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 31/01/10
sort by this date: 31/01/10
Month: January, 2010
Location data: Zacapu, Michoacan de Ocampo Mexico
Place: Zacapu, Michoacan de Ocampo
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT project: Quadratin, 31.01.2010
year: 2010

Name: Marcela Esteve
Age: 47
Profession: not reported
Date: 02/02/10
sort by this date: 02/02/10
Month: February, 2010
Location data: Tandil Argentina
Place: Tandil
Region: Central and South America
Country: Argentina
Location: hospital
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Marcela was stabbed in January, and died in the hospital after 20 days. Later, 31 year-old Gocella Paul Sebastian was arrested.
Sources: TvT project: AG Magazine, 03.02.2010
year: 2010

Name: Derya
Age: 35
Profession: not reported
Date: 08/02/10
sort by this date: 08/02/10
Month: February, 2010
Location data: Antalya Turkey
Place: Antalya
Region: Europe
Country: Turkey
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organisation: Pembe Hayat (Pink Life), Ankara
year: 2010

Name: (Felipe) Torrealba Castillo
Age: 20
Profession: not reported
Date: 16/02/10
sort by this date: 16/02/10
Month: February, 2010
Location data: Barquisimeto Venezuela
Place: Barquisimeto
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Diario El Impulso, 17.02.2010
year: 2010

Name: (Mauricio) da Silva Correia
Age: 40
Profession: not reported
Date: 16/02/10
sort by this date: 16/02/10
Month: February, 2010
Location data: Sao Luis, MA Brazil
Place: Sao Luis, MA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was stabbed 27 times. The police declared that the perpetrator was a psychopath.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Aycan Fevzi Yener
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 17/02/10
sort by this date: 17/02/10
Month: February, 2010
Location data: Fatih, Istanbul Turkey
Place: Fatih, Istanbul
Region: Europe
Country: Turkey
Location: own apartment
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was found dead in her own apartment with the wounds of 17 knife stabs. She was at home with a friend who was also attacked but was able to escape and was brought to hospital severely wounded. Neighbours reported to have seen three neighbours fleeing the apartment.
Sources: TvT project: Haber Ayna, 19.02.2010 & LGBTT Istanbul; Radikal, online portal, 17.02.2010
year: 2010

Name: Tonha (Adelino) Moura Rufino
Age: 22
Profession: not reported
Date: 19/02/10
sort by this date: 19/02/10
Month: February, 2010
Location data: Vitoria de Santo Antao, PE Brazil
Place: Vitoria de Santo Antao, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Sandra (Sandro Fernandes)
Age: 22
Profession: sex worker
Date: 21/02/10
sort by this date: 21/02/10
Month: February, 2010
Location data: Dourados, MS Brazil
Place: Dourados, MS
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: According to the police, the victim was a sex worker and was shot down by an adolescent on a bicycle while working on the street.
Sources: TvT project: Agora MS, 23.05.2010
year: 2010

Name: (Italo) Bargosa Gonzaga
Age: 31
Profession: sex worker
Date: 22/02/10
sort by this date: 22/02/10
Month: February, 2010
Location data: Salvador, BA Brazil
Place: Salvador, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: (Jose Maria de Campos)
Age: 48
Profession: not reported
Date: 22/02/10
sort by this date: 22/02/10
Month: February, 2010
Location data: Uberaba, MG Brazil
Place: Uberaba, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Princesa (Vinicius Freitas Vieira)
Age: 19
Profession: not reported
Date: 25/02/10
sort by this date: 25/02/10
Month: February, 2010
Location data: Via Estrutural, DF Brazil
Place: Via Estrutural, DF
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was stabbed to death with a machete.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Faith Iman
Age: 28
Profession: not reported
Date: 25/02/10
sort by this date: 25/02/10
Month: February, 2010
Location data: Kansas City USA
Place: Kansas City
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: home
Cause: stabbed, burned
Remarks: Faith was stabbed several times, then burned inside her home. The victim was a person of color (based on photographs published after death).
Sources: TvT project: TDOR website (www.transgenderdor.org)
year: 2010

Name: Paola Uc Dzib
Age: 23
Profession: waitress
Date: 27/02/10
sort by this date: 27/02/10
Month: February, 2010
Location data: Tizimin Mexico
Place: Tizimin
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was a waitress.
Sources: TvT project: Sipse, 28.02.2010
year: 2010

Name: (Edmilson Jose) dos Santos
Age: 26
Profession: sex worker
Date: 01/03/10
sort by this date: 01/03/10
Month: March, 2010
Location data: Maringa, PR Brazil
Place: Maringa, PR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT project: Gazeta do Povo, 02.03.2010
year: 2010

Name: (Adelcio) Silveira Lima Polaca
Age: 36
Profession: sex worker
Date: 01/03/10
sort by this date: 01/03/10
Month: March, 2010
Location data: Maringa, PR Brazil
Place: Maringa, PR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT project: Gazeta do Povo, 02.03.2010
year: 2010

Name: Kelly
Age: 25
Profession: sex worker
Date: 05/03/10
sort by this date: 05/03/10
Month: March, 2010
Location data: Serra, ES Brazil
Place: Serra, ES
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Kelly was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: (Tiago) da Silva
Age: 25
Profession: sex worker
Date: 06/03/10
sort by this date: 06/03/10
Month: March, 2010
Location data: Santa Luzia, MG Brazil
Place: Santa Luzia, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stoned
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Rubicel Torres Rodriguez
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 07/03/10
sort by this date: 07/03/10
Month: March, 2010
Location data: Chilpancingo Mexico
Place: Chilpancingo
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Agora Guerrero 07.03.2010
year: 2010

Name: Crislaine (Jose) Marques
Age: 27
Profession: not reported
Date: 18/03/10
sort by this date: 18/03/10
Month: March, 2010
Location data: Guarabira, PB Brazil
Place: Guarabira, PB
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stoned
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: January 1st to March 18th 2010
sort by this date: 18/03/10
Month: January 1st to March 18th 2010
Location data: not reported Guatemala
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 13 cases without names and further details being reported.
Sources: TvT project: Equipo de Corresponsales Clave en VIH/SIDA de America Latina, 18.03.2010 and Aidsailliance.org, 06.04.2010.
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: January 1st to March 18th 2010
sort by this date: 18/03/10
Month: January 1st to March 18th 2010
Location data: not reported Guatemala
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 13 cases without names and further details being reported.
Sources: TvT project: Equipo de Corresponsales Clave en VIH/SIDA de America Latina, 18.03.2010 and Aidsailliance.org, 06.04.2010.
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: January 1st to March 18th 2010
sort by this date: 18/03/10
Month: January 1st to March 18th 2010
Location data: not reported Guatemala
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 13 cases without names and further details being reported.
Sources: TvT project: Equipo de Corresponsales Clave en VIH/SIDA de America Latina, 18.03.2010 and Aidsailliance.org, 06.04.2010.
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: January 1st to March 18th 2010
sort by this date: 18/03/10
Month: January 1st to March 18th 2010
Location data: not reported Guatemala
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 13 cases without names and further details being reported.
Sources: TvT project: Equipo de Corresponsales Clave en VIH/SIDA de America Latina, 18.03.2010 and Aidsailliance.org, 06.04.2010.
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: January 1st to March 18th 2010
sort by this date: 18/03/10
Month: January 1st to March 18th 2010
Location data: not reported Guatemala
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 13 cases without names and further details being reported.
Sources: TvT project: Equipo de Corresponsales Clave en VIH/SIDA de America Latina, 18.03.2010 and Aidsailliance.org, 06.04.2010.
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: January 1st to March 18th 2010
sort by this date: 18/03/10
Month: January 1st to March 18th 2010
Location data: not reported Guatemala
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 13 cases without names and further details being reported.
Sources: TvT project: Equipo de Corresponsales Clave en VIH/SIDA de America Latina, 18.03.2010 and Aidsailliance.org, 06.04.2010.
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: January 1st to March 18th 2010
sort by this date: 18/03/10
Month: January 1st to March 18th 2010
Location data: not reported Guatemala
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 13 cases without names and further details being reported.
Sources: TvT project: Equipo de Corresponsales Clave en VIH/SIDA de America Latina, 18.03.2010 and Aidsailliance.org, 06.04.2010.
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: January 1st to March 18th 2010
sort by this date: 18/03/10
Month: January 1st to March 18th 2010
Location data: not reported Guatemala
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 13 cases without names and further details being reported.
Sources: TvT project: Equipo de Corresponsales Clave en VIH/SIDA de America Latina, 18.03.2010 and Aidsailliance.org, 06.04.2010.
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: January 1st to March 18th 2010
sort by this date: 18/03/10
Month: January 1st to March 18th 2010
Location data: not reported Guatemala
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 13 cases without names and further details being reported.
Sources: TvT project: Equipo de Corresponsales Clave en VIH/SIDA de America Latina, 18.03.2010 and Aidsailliance.org, 06.04.2010.
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: January 1st to March 18th 2010
sort by this date: 18/03/10
Month: January 1st to March 18th 2010
Location data: not reported Guatemala
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 13 cases without names and further details being reported.
Sources: TvT project: Equipo de Corresponsales Clave en VIH/SIDA de America Latina, 18.03.2010 and Aidsailliance.org, 06.04.2010.
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: January 1st to March 18th 2010
sort by this date: 18/03/10
Month: January 1st to March 18th 2010
Location data: not reported Guatemala
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 13 cases without names and further details being reported.
Sources: TvT project: Equipo de Corresponsales Clave en VIH/SIDA de America Latina, 18.03.2010 and Aidsailliance.org, 06.04.2010.
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: January 1st to March 18th 2010
sort by this date: 18/03/10
Month: January 1st to March 18th 2010
Location data: not reported Guatemala
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 13 cases without names and further details being reported.
Sources: TvT project: Equipo de Corresponsales Clave en VIH/SIDA de America Latina, 18.03.2010 and Aidsailliance.org, 06.04.2010.
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: January 1st to March 18th 2010
sort by this date: 18/03/10
Month: January 1st to March 18th 2010
Location data: not reported Guatemala
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: 13 cases without names and further details being reported.
Sources: TvT project: Equipo de Corresponsales Clave en VIH/SIDA de America Latina, 18.03.2010 and Aidsailliance.org, 06.04.2010.
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 20/03/10
sort by this date: 20/03/10
Month: March, 2010
Location data: Venda Nova, Belo Horizonte, MG Brazil
Place: Venda Nova, Belo Horizonte, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Debora Contreras Ponce
Age: 19
Profession: sex worker
Date: 25/03/10
sort by this date: 25/03/10
Month: March, 2010
Location data: Tegucigalpa Honduras
Place: Tegucigalpa
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Debora was a sex worker. She was shot 15 times.
Sources: TvT project: La Prensa 25.03.2010 and Vos El Soberano, 26.03.2010
year: 2010

Name: Curi Huansi
Age: 29
Profession: not reported
Date: 25/03/10
sort by this date: 25/03/10
Month: March, 2010
Location data: Parma Italy
Place: Parma
Region: Europe
Country: Italy
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Curi was Argentinean and her body was found naked and in a supine position.
Sources: TvT project: Gazzetta di Reggio, 26.03.2010 and Vida de travestis 28.03.2010
year: 2010

Name: Veronica (Rodrigo) Ferreira
Age: 23
Profession: not reported
Date: 27/03/10
sort by this date: 27/03/10
Month: March, 2010
Location data: Viana, ES Brazil
Place: Viana, ES
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: According to the police, the assassins were very cruel and reloaded the gun to shoot several times, although the Veronica, lying on the ground, was already dead.
Sources: TvT project: TV Canal 17, 27.03.2010
year: 2010

Name: Amanda (Edelbuerto) Gonzalez-Andujar
Age: 29
Profession: not reported
Date: 27/03/10
sort by this date: 27/03/10
Month: March, 2010
Location data: New York City USA
Place: New York City
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location:
Cause: strangled
Remarks: Photographs published after her death suggest that the victim was a person of color.
Sources: TvT project: AP reports, NY Times & NY Daily News
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 27/03/10
sort by this date: 27/03/10
Month: March, 2010
Location data: Mexico City Mexico
Place: Mexico City
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim was raped anally with an unknown object and then beaten to death. She was found naked, wearing only a bra.
Sources: TvT project: En la Mira, 28.03.2010
year: 2010

Name: Leona (Leonardo) Fernandes
Age: 19
Profession: sex worker
Date: 28/03/10
sort by this date: 28/03/10
Month: March, 2010
Location data: Viana, ES Brazil
Place: Viana, ES
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Leona was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Monchi de Jesus Crisostomo de Leon
Age: 22
Profession: sex worker
Date: 30/03/10
sort by this date: 30/03/10
Month: March, 2010
Location data: Santo Domingo Dominican Republic
Place: Santo Domingo
Region: Central and South America
Country: Dominican Republic
Location: hotel room
Cause: strangled
Remarks: Monchi was a sex worker and was strangled in a hotel room. The suspected perpetrator, a 24 year-old client of the sex worker, explained that he killed her in a fight that started after he realized that 'she wasn't a woman'.
Sources: TvT project: Noticias Telemicros 30.03.2010 & El Nuevo dia, 12.05.2010
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: March, 2010
sort by this date: 31/03/10
Month: March, 2010
Location data: Jakarta area Indonesia
Place: Jakarta area
Region: Asia
Country: Indonesia
Location: river
Cause: dismembered
Remarks: The Police of Jakarta found a mutilated and dismembered torso of a trans person in the Kalimalang river in East Jakarta and Bekasi.
Sources: TvT project: The Jakarta Post, 05.04.2010 and 06.04.2010
year: 2010

Name: China
Age: 30
Profession: sex worker
Date: 01/04/10
sort by this date: 01/04/10
Month: April, 2010
Location data: Cuenca Ecuador
Place: Cuenca
Region: Central and South America
Country: Ecuador
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: China was a sex worker. There are two hypotheses: the victim was murdered or it was a suicide.
Sources: TvT project: Noticias al dia, 03.04.2010 & El Heraldo de Chihuahua, 04.04.2010
year: 2010

Name: Toni (Tony) Alston
Age: 44
Profession: not reported
Date: 03/04/10
sort by this date: 03/04/10
Month: April, 2010
Location data: Charlotte, NC USA
Place: Charlotte, NC
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: in front of own apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks: Toni was shot in front of her home. Photographs published after her death suggest that the victim was a person of color.
Sources: TvT project: Charlotte Observer,14.04.2010
year: 2010

Name: Jazmin Alexandra
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 08/04/10
sort by this date: 08/04/10
Month: April, 2010
Location data: Palmira Colombia
Place: Palmira
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location: hairdresser's shop
Cause: shot
Remarks: Jazmin was shot to death in a hairdressers shop in the barrio La Colombina.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Observatorio Ciudadano Trans
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 09/04/10
sort by this date: 09/04/10
Month: April, 2010
Location data: Joao Pessoa, PB Brazil
Place: Joao Pessoa, PB
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim's body was found with her mouth gagged with her own panties. An activist of Associcao de Travesti da Paraiba (ASTRAPA) declared that there were clear signs that the crime is motivated by homophobia.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Pitanga Malta da Silva
Age: 39
Profession: sex worker
Date: 10/04/10
sort by this date: 10/04/10
Month: April, 2010
Location data: Porto Alegre, RS Brazil
Place: Porto Alegre, RS
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Pitanga was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Michelle
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: 11/04/10
sort by this date: 11/04/10
Month: April, 2010
Location data: Sao Jose dos Pinhais, PR Brazil
Place: Sao Jose dos Pinhais, PR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Michelle was attacked by three men and shot to death.
Sources: TvT project: Revista Ladoa, 12.04.2010
year: 2010

Name: Baiana (Angelo) da Costa
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 13/04/10
sort by this date: 13/04/10
Month: April, 2010
Location data: Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil
Place: Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organisation: ASTRA Rio
year: 2010

Name: Dandara
Age: 40
Profession: not reported
Date: 20/04/10
sort by this date: 20/04/10
Month: April, 2010
Location data: Itaborai, RJ Brazil
Place: Itaborai, RJ
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Dandara was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organisation: ASTRA Rio
year: 2010

Name: (Adalberto) Alberto de Morais
Age: 17
Profession: not reported
Date: 21/04/10
sort by this date: 21/04/10
Month: April, 2010
Location data: Tocantins Brazil
Place: Tocantins
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Noticias Terra, 21.05.2010
year: 2010

Name: (Cleidinaldo) Silva do Nascimento
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: 22/04/10
sort by this date: 22/04/10
Month: April, 2010
Location data: Brumado, MG Brazil
Place: Brumado, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Cabuloso, 04.05.2010
year: 2010

Name: (Pirasak) Pongchoo
Age: 43
Profession: not reported
Date: 22/04/10
sort by this date: 22/04/10
Month: April, 2010
Location data: Wichit Songkram Road Soi 1, Phuket, Thailand
Place: Phuket
Region: Asia
Country: Thailand
Location:
Cause: slit throat
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Phuket Gazette 27.04.2010
year: 2010

Name: Ramona
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 22/04/10
sort by this date: 22/04/10
Month: April, 2010
Location data: Nova Iguacu, RJ Brazil
Place: Nova Iguacu, RJ
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organisation: ASTRA Rio
year: 2010

Name: Mahsa
Age: 24
Profession: not reported
Date: 25/04/10
sort by this date: 25/04/10
Month: April, 2010
Location data: Shariati Street, Tehran, Iran
Place: Tehran
Region: Asia
Country: Iran
Location: own apartment
Cause: strangled
Remarks: The victim was killed by her two brothers who mentioned the reason for the killing as "opposing her immorality". Their father forgave his two sons for the murder. One brother was sentenced to 8 years in prison, with five years suspended jail time and the other for three with two years suspended jail time.
Sources: TvT project: Gay Middle East, 12.09.2010 (reported from FarsNews)
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: 25/04/10
sort by this date: 25/04/10
Month: April, 2010
Location data: Guatemala City Guatemala
Place: Guatemala City
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Prensa Libre, 25.04.2010
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 25/04/10
sort by this date: 25/04/10
Month: April, 2010
Location data: Rua Teodoro Sampaio, Brumado, BA Brazil
Place: Rua Teodoro Sampaio, Brumado, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was shot at point blank in the heart area.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Azra (Mustafa Has)
Age: 35
Profession: not reported
Date: 27/04/10
sort by this date: 27/04/10
Month: April, 2010
Location data: Konak, Izmir Turkey
Place: Konak, Izmir
Region: Europe
Country: Turkey
Location: car
Cause: shot
Remarks: Azra was shot at 5:30 am in her own car. She was found half naked. Azra was a founding member of the queer organization Siyah Pempe Ucgen. According to other members of the organization, a man had tried to take other trans women to lonely places who had however refused.
Sources: TvT partner organisation: Pembe Hayat (Pink Life), Ankara; Haberciniz, online portal, 27.04.2010
year: 2010

Name: Ashley Santiago Ocasio
Age: 31
Profession: owner of beauty salon
Date: April, 2010
sort by this date: 30/04/10
Month: April, 2010
Location data: Corozal Puerto Rico
Place: Corozal
Region: Central and South America
Country: Puerto Rico
Location: own apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks: Ashley was a beauty salon owner. A news agency commented: Activists press authorities to probe the slaying as a possible hate crime. The grisly scene at Santiago's home raised suspicion that she may have been targeted because of her gender identity. The case has grabbed headlines and renewed complaints that Puerto Rico has never invoked a 2002 hate crime law covering crimes based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
Sources: TvT project: Associated Press (news agency), 25.04.2010
year: 2010

Name: Renata
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 30/04/10
sort by this date: 30/04/10
Month: April, 2010
Location data: Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil
Place: Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organisation: ASTRA Rio
year: 2010

Name: Selene
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: April, 2010
sort by this date: 30/04/10
Month: April, 2010
Location data: Valle del Cauca Colombia
Place: Valle del Cauca
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The killing is reported to have occurred between April and May 2010, although the facts have not yet been confirmed.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Observatorio Ciudadano Trans
year: 2010

Name: Yara/Kelly
Age: 19
Profession: merchant
Date: 01/05/10
sort by this date: 01/05/10
Month: May, 2010
Location data: Salvador, BA Brazil
Place: Salvador, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a merchant.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Monica (Thiago) de Jesus Carvalho
Age: 21
Profession: sex worker
Date: 01/05/10
sort by this date: 01/05/10
Month: May, 2010
Location data: Stella Maris, BA Brazil
Place: Stella Maris, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Monica was a sex worker and was found shot in a garbage container. Three hours before, she had been seen entering a client's car. According to friends of the victim, Monica had received death threats through an online social network by a man who had killed another trans person.
Sources: TvT project: A tarde online, 01.05.2010; Correio (Bahia) online portal, 1.05.2010
year: 2010

Name: Claudia
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 01/05/10
sort by this date: 01/05/10
Month: May, 2010
Location data: Bairro Promorar, Teresina, PI Brazil
Place: Bairro Promorar, Teresina, PI
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Claudia was shot by a gang of drug dealers.
Sources: TvT project: 180 graus online portal 01.05.2010
year: 2010

Name: Sheila
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 05/05/10
sort by this date: 05/05/10
Month: May, 2010
Location data: Nova Iguacu, RJ Brazil
Place: Nova Iguacu, RJ
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Sheila was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organisation: ASTRA Rio; TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Dana A. (Chanel) Larkin
Age: 26
Profession: sex worker
Date: 07/05/10
sort by this date: 07/05/10
Month: May, 2010
Location data: Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA
Place: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Dana was a sex worker of colour who according to Milwaukee prosecutors was shot dead after telling an interested client that she is not a woman. Andrew Olacirequi, the alleged perpetrator, was arrested after returning to the crime scene to find his lost cell phone.
Sources: TvT project: Edge Boston, 20.05.2010
year: 2010

Name: Tigresa
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 08/05/10
sort by this date: 08/05/10
Month: May, 2010
Location data: Feira de Santana, BA Brazil
Place: Feira de Santana, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Tigresa was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT project. Correiro 24 horas online portal, 08.05.2010; TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Ingrid Lizeth
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 08/05/10
sort by this date: 08/05/10
Month: May, 2010
Location data: Bogota Colombia
Place: Bogota
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Ingrid was a sex worker and stabbed to death by a man who had been intimate with her shortly before. Police say it was a passion crime.
Sources: TvT project: Informativo Patio Bonita Al Dia, 13.05.2010
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: 25
Profession: sex worker
Date: 10/05/10
sort by this date: 10/05/10
Month: May, 2010
Location data: Porto Velho, RO Brazil
Place: Porto Velho, RO
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Luan Santos Xavier
Age: 17
Profession: not reported
Date: 11/05/10
sort by this date: 11/05/10
Month: May, 2010
Location data: Porto Velho, RO Brazil
Place: Porto Velho, RO
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Rondonia Agora, 12.05.2010
year: 2010

Name: Berenice (Marco) Gutierrez Ramos
Age: 32
Profession: not reported
Date: 11/05/10
sort by this date: 11/05/10
Month: May, 2010
Location data: Quintana Roo Mexico
Place: Quintana Roo
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location:
Cause: dismembered
Remarks: The victim was tortured before being killed. There were indicators that the crime was committed by a Mexican drug mafia cartel as a warning.
Sources: TvT project: Chetu Mail, 11.05.2010; TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011
year: 2010

Name: Michelle (Luis Alejandro) Silva
Age: 25
Profession: not reported
Date: 13/05/10
sort by this date: 13/05/10
Month: May, 2010
Location data: Maracaibo Venezuela
Place: Maracaibo
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Michelle was shot by a man driving by in a car.
Sources: TvT project: La Verdad, 14.05.2010
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: 14/05/10
sort by this date: 14/05/10
Month: May, 2010
Location data: San Cristobal Dominican Republic
Place: San Cristobal
Region: Central and South America
Country: Dominican Republic
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: There were signs that the victim was sexually violated before being executed with three shots.
Sources: TvT project: El Nuevo Diario, 15.05.2010 and El Nacional 15.05.2010
year: 2010

Name: Ice (Channarong) Sonnuam
Age: 21
Profession: performer
Date: 16/05/10
sort by this date: 16/05/10
Month: May, 2010
Location data: Chaweng Thailand
Place: Chaweng
Region: Asia
Country: Thailand
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Ice, a performer, was raped and then beaten to death with a broken piece of concrete. The perpetrator, a young Thai man named Somchok Chungchiaw, was arrested due to evidence gained by an IP camera near the crime scene. He confessed the murder. According to the police, he explained that he had been angry after his wife left him and wanted to do something extreme.
Sources: TvT project: The Samui Gazette, 16.07.2010 and Thai Page Online, 14.06.2010
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: merchant
Date: 16/05/10
sort by this date: 16/05/10
Month: May, 2010
Location data: Feira de Santana, BA Brazil
Place: Feira de Santana, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The victim was a merchant.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: (Cesar Henrique) Vendrame
Age: 32
Profession: sex worker
Date: 17/05/10
sort by this date: 17/05/10
Month: May, 2010
Location data: Resende, RJ Brazil
Place: Resende, RJ
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street (hospital)
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker and died in hospital after having been severely beaten. According to witnesses, a man had approached Cesar when he was on the street for work. After a conversation, a fight started and the man beat up the victim and then left the scene.
Sources: TvT project: ASTRA Rio (TvT partner organisation); Diario do Vale, 18.05.2010
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 20/05/10
sort by this date: 20/05/10
Month: May, 2010
Location data: Varzea Grande, MT Brazil
Place: Varzea Grande, MT
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: strangled
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Taira (Jose D B) dos Santos Junior
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 23/05/10
sort by this date: 23/05/10
Month: May, 2010
Location data: Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil
Place: Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: own apartment
Cause: beaten
Remarks: According to an experts' report, Taira died as a result of a severe blow on her had after a fight. The victim was then burned. The 27 year-old Leonardo Loeser de Oliveira, a student of law and Jiu-Jitsu fighter was identified as the suspect and arrested. He was said to have been under the influence of crack. The responsible police officer discarded homophobia as a motive, as Oliveira was said to had had sexual relations with men and travestis before.
Sources: TvT project. ASTRA Rio & O Globo, 23.05.2010; Extra Online, 25.05.2010
year: 2010

Name: (Manuel) Gomez Mendoza
Age: 19
Profession: sex worker
Date: 24/05/10
sort by this date: 24/05/10
Month: May, 2010
Location data: Miguel Hidalgo Mexico
Place: Miguel Hidalgo
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: car
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker and beaten to death while in a car with her clients. Another trans sex worker survived the attack and could escape.
Sources: TvT project: La Prensa, 24.05.2010
year: 2010

Name: Angie Gonzalez Oquendo
Age: 38
Profession: not reported
Date: 24/05/10
sort by this date: 24/05/10
Month: May, 2010
Location data: Caguas Puerto Rico
Place: Caguas
Region: Central and South America
Country: Puerto Rico
Location: own apartment
Cause: strangled
Remarks: The homicide occurred in Angie Gonzalez' own apartment.
Sources: TvT project: Edge Boston, 25.05.2010
year: 2010

Name: (Josenildo / Nildo) Barbosa dos Santos
Age: 27
Profession: artist
Date: 27/05/10
sort by this date: 27/05/10
Month: May, 2010
Location data: Marechal Deodoro, AL Brazil
Place: Marechal Deodoro, AL
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was found naked in a shallow grave. She was an artist.
Sources: TvT project: Alagoas 24 horas online portal, 31.05.2010
year: 2010

Name: Batu
Age: 28
Profession: not reported
Date: 29/05/10
sort by this date: 29/05/10
Month: May, 2010
Location data: Sisli, Istanbul Turkey
Place: Sisli, Istanbul
Region: Europe
Country: Turkey
Location: street
Cause: throat-cut
Remarks: The perpetrator is her ex-boyfriend. The murderer was caught by the police while he was trying to escape the scene. The murderer murdered Batu with a chopper and cut her throat. Batu was subjected to several forms of abuse before she was murdered.
Sources: TvT partner organisation: Pembe Hayat (Pink Life), Ankara
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: 25
Profession: sex worker
Date: 31/05/10
sort by this date: 31/05/10
Month: May, 2010
Location data: Sao Miguel dos Campos, AL Brazil
Place: Sao Miguel dos Campos, AL
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Neraldys
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker, activist
Date: May, 2010
sort by this date: 31/05/10
Month: May, 2010
Location data: San Pedro Sula Honduras
Place: San Pedro Sula
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location: street (hospital)
Cause: shot
Remarks: Neraldys was shot seven times on the street while doing sex work. She died in hospital ten days later. Neraldys was vicepresident of the trans organization Colectivo Unidad Color Rosa.
Sources: TvT project: Reinas de la Noche, website, w/d.
year: 2010

Name: Yisel (Luis Jesus) Mejias Silva
Age: 20
Profession: sex worker
Date: 02/06/10
sort by this date: 02/06/10
Month: June, 2010
Location data: Turmero Venezuela
Place: Turmero
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Yisel was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT project: En Torno Inteligente, 07.06.2010
year: 2010

Name: Xuxa
Age: 29
Profession: sex worker
Date: 05/06/10
sort by this date: 05/06/10
Month: June, 2010
Location data: Laranjeiras, SE Brazil
Place: Laranjeiras, SE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Xuxa was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Jazmin/Gudelia (Angel) Vega Guzman
Age: 39
Profession: sex worker
Date: 05/06/10
sort by this date: 05/06/10
Month: June, 2010
Location data: Ensenada Mexico
Place: Ensenada
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location:
Cause: strangled
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT project: Ensenada net, 07.06.2010
year: 2010

Name: (Valdeci) Ferreira de Sousa
Age: 46
Profession: not reported
Date: 05/06/10
sort by this date: 05/06/10
Month: June, 2010
Location data: Teresina, PI Brazil
Place: Teresina, PI
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: hospital
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim died in hospital, one day after being stabbed to death by her boyfriend Cristiano Pereira da Silva, who was arrested after confessing that he murdered Valdeci after having had an argument because of jealousy.
Sources: TvT project: TV Canal 13, 08.06.2010
year: 2010

Name: Dariel Quintela
Age: not reported
Profession: parlor attendant
Date: 05/06/10
sort by this date: 05/06/10
Month: June, 2010
Location data: Barangay Sukaten, Sumisip town, Basilan, Mindanao, Philippines
Place: Sumisip town
Region: Asia
Country: Philippines
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was kidnapped and executed together with another trans person by the Abu Sayyaf group.
Sources: The Philippine LGBT Hate Crime Watch
year: 2010

Name: Rolando Francisco Jr.
Age: not reported
Profession: parlor attendant
Date: 05/06/10
sort by this date: 05/06/10
Month: June, 2010
Location data: Barangay Sukaten, Sumisip town, Basilan, Mindanao, Philippines
Place: Sumisip town
Region: Asia
Country: Philippines
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was kidnapped and executed together with another trans person by the Abu Sayyaf group.
Sources: The Philippine LGBT Hate Crime Watch
year: 2010

Name: Fernanda Lavalle
Age: 28
Profession: sex worker, activist
Date: 16/06/10
sort by this date: 16/06/10
Month: June, 2010
Location data: Actopan Mexico
Place: Actopan
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Fernanda was a sex worker and the president of the NGO Transgender Hidalgo. After having been missing for three days, her dead body was found gagged and tied and shot twice in the head. Trans activists of Transgender Hidalgo declared that it was a hate crime.
Sources: TvT project: El Financeiro, 22.06.2010, Notie Se, 24.06.2010
year: 2010

Name: Sandy (Credale) Woulard
Age: 28
Profession: not reported
Date: 21/06/10
sort by this date: 21/06/10
Month: June, 2010
Location data: Chicago USA
Place: Chicago
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: street (hospital)
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was found lying in the street and died later in hospital. There were no indicators of a robbery.
Sources: TvT project: Sun Times, 21.06.2010; TDOR website (www.transgenderdor.org)
year: 2010

Name: Jose Gerardo Palma
Age: not reported
Profession: merchant
Date: 24/06/10
sort by this date: 24/06/10
Month: June, 2010
Location data: Comayaguela Honduras
Place: Comayaguela
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a merchant. Three unidentified men entered her tent and shot her to death.
Sources: TvT project: El Heraldo de Honduras, 24.06.2010
year: 2010

Name: (Iraquitan) dos Santos Soares
Age: 23
Profession: not reported
Date: 29/06/10
sort by this date: 29/06/10
Month: June, 2010
Location data: Olinda, PE Brazil
Place: Olinda, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Pe 360 Graus online portal, 29.06.2010 & 30.06.2010
year: 2010

Name: Marcela Presley (Marcelo Pedro) Justino
Age: 25
Profession: sex worker
Date: 30/06/10
sort by this date: 30/06/10
Month: June, 2010
Location data: Maceio, AL Brazil
Place: Maceio, AL
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: beach
Cause: shot
Remarks: Marcela was a sex worker who was shot from a car when approached by a client. The murder took place on a beach, where Marcela had been doing sex work for ten years.
Sources: TvT project: Alagoas 24 horas online portal, 01.07.2010
year: 2010

Name: Arenita (Daniel) Corporan Suero
Age: 22
Profession: sex worker
Date: 01/07/10
sort by this date: 01/07/10
Month: July, 2010
Location data: Villa Mella Dominican Republic
Place: Villa Mella
Region: Central and South America
Country: Dominican Republic
Location: own apartment
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Arenita was a sex worker. She was found dead in her own apartment after her house mate had seen three men coming to the apartment asking for sexual services.
Sources: TvT project: TRANSSA, trans group in Dominican Republic, 2 Jul. 2010; El Nacional journal, 2 Jul. 2010
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 04/07/10
sort by this date: 04/07/10
Month: July, 2010
Location data: Sao Bernardo do Campo, SP Brazil
Place: Sao Bernardo do Campo, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 04/07/10
sort by this date: 04/07/10
Month: July, 2010
Location data: Avenida Djalma Batista, Manaus, AM Brazil
Place: Avenida Djalma Batista, Manaus, AM
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker. The crime took place on a street where she used to work.
Sources: TvT project: Amazonas Em Tempo, online portal, 4 Jul. 2010
year: 2010

Name: (Fabio Gerao de Almeida)
Age: 32
Profession: sex worker
Date: 05/07/10
sort by this date: 05/07/10
Month: July, 2010
Location data: Sao Bernardo do Campo, SP Brazil
Place: Sao Bernardo do Campo, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was found shot four times on a street where sex workers work. She had come from Minas Gerais to Sao Bernardo do Campo a month earlier. The perpetrator also shot another travesti, who survived. It is reported that the perpetrator had been robbed earlier by two different travestis and returned in order to take revenge.
Sources: TvT project: Estadao/Sao Paulo, online portal, 6 July 2010; TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: (Juan Carlos) Crespo Molina
Age: 28
Profession: not reported
Date: 07/07/10
sort by this date: 07/07/10
Month: July, 2010
Location data: Terraplen, Loiza Puerto Rico
Place: Terraplen, Loiza
Region: Central and South America
Country: Puerto Rico
Location: beach
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was found shot dead on a beach.
Sources: TvT project: El Nuevo Dia, online portal, 28 Jul. 2010 & 7 Jul. 2010
year: 2010

Name: Natasha (Diego) de Souza Oliveira
Age: 22
Profession: sex worker
Date: 08/07/10
sort by this date: 08/07/10
Month: July, 2010
Location data: Avenida Joao XXIII, Vila Raquel, Uberaba, MG Brazil
Place: Avenida Joao XXIII, Vila Raquel, Uberaba, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Natasha was shot six times while walking on the street. She was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT project: Jornal da Manha Online, 13 Jul. 2010; TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Scarlety
Age: 35
Profession: sex worker
Date: 08/07/10
sort by this date: 08/07/10
Month: July, 2010
Location data: Balsas, MA Brazil
Place: Balsas, MA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Scarlety was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Michele da Silva Bulhoes
Age: 37
Profession: not reported
Date: 12/07/10
sort by this date: 12/07/10
Month: July, 2010
Location data: Avenida Rufina Assis Guimaraes, Alfredo Freire, Uberaba, MG Brazil
Place: Avenida Rufina Assis Guimaraes, Alfredo Freire, Uberaba, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: own apartment
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: According to the police, Michele was using crack in her apartment and the accused perpetrator, Cristiano da Silva, stabbed her with a stiletto after she refused to share the crack with him.
Sources: TvT project: Jornal da Manha Online, 13 Jul. & 11 Sep. 2020
year: 2010

Name: (Uziel) Figueiredo Arauo
Age: 34
Profession: not reported
Date: 22/07/10
sort by this date: 22/07/10
Month: July, 2010
Location data: Rua Santa Filomena, Sao Tome de Paripe, Salvador, BA Brazil
Place: Rua Santa Filomena, Sao Tome de Paripe, Salvador, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The police arrested Alex de Jesus Santos who allegedly had a relationship with the victim and killed her out of jealousy.
Sources: TvT project: Correio newspaper, online version, 23 Jul. 2010
year: 2010

Name: Paola Gonzalez Mendez
Age: 36
Profession: not reported
Date: 25/07/10
sort by this date: 25/07/10
Month: July, 2010
Location data: San Francisco, Zulia Venezuela
Place: San Francisco, Zulia
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: dismembered
Remarks: The victim's body was found half naked, decapitated and with severe injuries in the chest and hands. The police said she was murdered, because the perpetrators wanted to rob her money.
Sources: TvT project: El Regional del Zulia, 25.07.2010, En torno intelligente, 26. and 27.07.2010
year: 2010

Name: Jessica
Age: 16
Profession: sex worker
Date: 27/07/10
sort by this date: 27/07/10
Month: July, 2010
Location data: Chilpancingo de los Bravo, Guerrero Mexico
Place: Chilpancingo de los Bravo, Guerrero
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: street
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Jessica lived at the Coloso housing unit in Acapulco. She was killed as she walked from Chilpancingo to the community San Vicente. The Centre for Studies and Projects for Integral Human Development (CEPRODEHI) declared that Jessica had come to Chilpancingo a week before her death to work as a sex worker on the Vicente Guerrero boulevard.
Sources: TvT project: IRZA news agency, 2.08.2010
year: 2010

Name: Camille Gerin
Age: 25
Profession: sex worker
Date: 27/07/10
sort by this date: 27/07/10
Month: July, 2010
Location data: Rua David Vicente, Bonfim, Campinas, SP Brazil
Place: Rua David Vicente, Bonfim, Campinas, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: hospital
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The perpetrator, Roberto Rubens de Macedo, was caught red-handed. He reported to the police that Camille made sexual advances, which he refused. He also claimed to have been threatened with a knife, although no knife was found. He hit the victim on the head with two pieces of wood. Camille died in hospital the following day. Camille was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT project: Noticia Ja, online portal, 26.07.2010, Espaco GLS, online portal, 28 Jul. 2010; TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Dani Bananinha Feitosa de Andrade
Age: 19
Profession: not reported
Date: 14/08/10
sort by this date: 14/08/10
Month: August, 2010
Location data: Sitio Rafael de Caruaru, Caruaru, PE Brazil
Place: Sitio Rafael de Caruaru, Caruaru, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stoned
Remarks: Dani died from injuries caused by stones thrown at her. She lived in Santa Cruz do Cabibaribe. Her body was found on 15th August, but the police belief the crime happened in the early morning of the 14th.
Sources: TvT project: Jornal Agreste, online portal, 17.08.2010
year: 2010

Name: Natasha
Age: 20
Profession: not reported
Date: 16/08/10
sort by this date: 16/08/10
Month: August, 2010
Location data: Forquilha, CE Brazil
Place: Forquilha, CE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Karen Mendonca
Age: 22
Profession: sex worker
Date: 18/08/10
sort by this date: 18/08/10
Month: August, 2010
Location data: Fortaleza, CE Brazil
Place: Fortaleza, CE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Karen was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Lorraine
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 19/08/10
sort by this date: 19/08/10
Month: August, 2010
Location data: Ponte da Tabuleta, Teresina, PI Brazil
Place: Ponte da Tabuleta, Teresina, PI
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Lorraine's body was found stabbed several times. According to the police, she had already registered a complaint against the suspected perpetrator with the minorities' police station.
Sources: TvT project: Acesse Piaui, online portal, 19.08.2010
year: 2010

Name: (Sidney) Nascimento
Age: 30
Profession: sex worker
Date: 21/08/10
sort by this date: 21/08/10
Month: August, 2010
Location data: Travessa Lazaro Goncalves Martins, Campo Grande, MS Brazil
Place: Travessa Lazaro Goncalves Martins, Campo Grande, MS
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: own apartment
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was stabbed several times in her apartment. According to neighbours, she was a sex worker and used to take clients to her home.
Sources: TvT project: Diario Corumbaense Online, 21.08.2010, Aquidaunanews, online portal, 22 Aug. 2010
year: 2010

Name: Jaqueline Eunapio Garcao
Age: 35
Profession: bar owner
Date: 22/08/10
sort by this date: 22/08/10
Month: August, 2010
Location data: Nossa Senhora das Dores, SE Brazil
Place: Nossa Senhora das Dores, SE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Jaqueline was a bar owner.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: (Alcebiades) Alves de Melo
Age: 26
Profession: sex worker
Date: 23/08/10
sort by this date: 23/08/10
Month: August, 2010
Location data: Avenida Julio de Castilhos, Caxias do Sul, RS Brazil
Place: Avenida Julio de Castilhos, Caxias do Sul, RS
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was found with a gash in the neck. She was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT project: Radio Caxias, online portal, 24.08.2010, Pioneiro newspaper, online version, 24 Aug. 2010; TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Keila Rios
Age: not reported
Profession: performer
Date: 23/08/10
sort by this date: 23/08/10
Month: August, 2010
Location data: Mata de Sao Joao, BA Brazil
Place: Mata de Sao Joao, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: poisened
Remarks: Keila was a performer.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Elaine
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 29/08/10
sort by this date: 29/08/10
Month: August, 2010
Location data: Ladeira da Conceicao, Salvador da Bahia, BA Brazil
Place: Ladeira da Conceicao, Salvador da Bahia, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: According to the police, Elane lived in the same region and was found beaten to death in the early morning.
Sources: TvT project: Correio online journal, 29.08.2010
year: 2010

Name: Imperia Gamaniel Parson
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 30/08/10
sort by this date: 30/08/10
Month: August, 2010
Location data: Los Tamarindos, Barrio Barandillas, San Pedro Sula Honduras
Place: Los Tamarindos, Barrio Barandillas, San Pedro Sula
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Imperia Gamaniel was a sex worker and shot while working on the street by two men on a motor cylce. According to the director of the Honduran Colectivo Unidad Color Rosa (Colectivo TTT), the men appeared to be police men. Imperia Gamaniel was president of the executive committe of Colectivo TTT.
Sources: TvT project: Organizacion Trans Reinas de la Noche Guatemala; Human Rights Watch
year: 2010

Name: Alyas
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 01/09/10
sort by this date: 01/09/10
Month: September, 2010
Location data: Tondo, Manila, Philippines
Place: Manila
Region: Asia
Country: Philippines
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: The Philippine LGBT Hate Crime Watch
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 04/09/10
sort by this date: 04/09/10
Month: September, 2010
Location data: Rua Vitoria, Cha da Jaqueira, Maceio, AL Brazil
Place: Rua Vitoria, Cha da Jaqueira, Maceio, AL
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was shot 7 times.
Sources: TvT project: O Jornal Alagoas, online portal, 5.09.2010
year: 2010

Name: (Gypsy)
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 06/09/10
sort by this date: 06/09/10
Month: September, 2010
Location data: Houston, TX USA
Place: Houston, TX
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: TDOR-Website: Houston Police Department
year: 2010

Name: Leticia (Evandro Fabiano) Soares
Age: 29
Profession: not reported
Date: 10/09/10
sort by this date: 10/09/10
Month: September, 2010
Location data: Jardim Terra Santa, Tatuquara, Curitiba, PR Brazil
Place: Jardim Terra Santa, Tatuquara, Curitiba, PR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: According to a witness, Leticia was approached by a man on the street who wanted to have paid sex with her. When Leticia declined and walked away, the man shot her.
Sources: TvT project: Parana Online, online portal, 11.09.2010
year: 2010

Name: Victoria Carmen White
Age: 28
Profession: not reported
Date: 12/09/10
sort by this date: 12/09/10
Month: September, 2010
Location data: Jacoby Street, Maplewood, NJ USA
Place: Jacoby Street, Maplewood, NJ
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: relative's apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks: Victoria was from Newark. She was killed at 5 am in a relative's apartment. Two men have been charged with murder. The authorities suspect Victoria's being trans to have played a role in her murder. Photographs published after her death suggest that the victim was a person of color.
Sources: TvT project: NJ.com online journal, 13.09.2010; South Orange Patch, online portal, 25 Oct. 2010; On Top online magazine, 28 Oct. 2010
year: 2010

Name: La Flaca (Miguel Orlando) Soto Gonzalez
Age: 18
Profession: not reported
Date: 13/09/10
sort by this date: 13/09/10
Month: September, 2010
Location data: Highway 512, Juana Diaz Puerto Rico
Place: Highway 512, Juana Diaz
Region: Central and South America
Country: Puerto Rico
Location: highway
Cause: shot
Remarks: La Flaca was shot in the head together with another trans woman. The police received information according to which both victims had been seen approaching a car for some negotiation or business shortly before their bodies were found.
Sources: TvT project: El Nuevo Dia online journal, 14.09.2010; Sentido G online portal, 17.09.2010; Diario Digital Transexual, 15.09.2010
year: 2010

Name: Sheena
Age: 24
Profession: not reported
Date: 13/09/10
sort by this date: 13/09/10
Month: September, 2010
Location data: Sadiqabad, Pakistan
Place: Sadiqabad
Region: Asia
Country: Pakistan
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Sheena was shot dead by a 40year-old government contractor who spent two days with her, because she refused to leave her community to live with him.
Sources: TvT project: The Express Tribune 14.09.2010
year: 2010

Name: Michele (Justo Luis) Gonzalez Garcia
Age: 34
Profession: not reported
Date: 13/09/10
sort by this date: 13/09/10
Month: September, 2010
Location data: Highway 512, Juana Diaz Puerto Rico
Place: Highway 512, Juana Diaz
Region: Central and South America
Country: Puerto Rico
Location: highway
Cause: shot
Remarks: Michele was shot in the head together with another trans woman. The police received information according to which both victims had been seen approaching a car for some negotiation or business shortly before their bodies were found.
Sources: TvT project: El Nuevo Dia online journal, 14.09.2010; Sentido G online portal, 17.09.2010; Diario Digital Transexual, 15.09.2010
year: 2010

Name: (Valdir Luiz) das Mercer
Age: 27
Profession: not reported
Date: 14/09/10
sort by this date: 14/09/10
Month: September, 2010
Location data: Rua Anchieta, Jundiai, SP Brazil
Place: Rua Anchieta, Jundiai, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker. According to witnesses, she was working on the street when a man came out of a car and stabbed her. She was found stabbed 15 times. Since the victim screamed the name 'Jonie' and seemed to had known the perpetrator personally, the police belief it was a 'crime of passion'.
Sources: TvT project: Rede Bom Dia, online newspaper, 15.09.2010
year: 2010

Name: (Jovet Allan Lanogan)
Age: 22
Profession: beautician
Date: 18/09/10
sort by this date: 18/09/10
Month: September, 2010
Location data: Gate 62, Area H, Parola Compound, Tondo, Manila
Place: Tondo, Manila
Region: Asia
Country: Philippines
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Jepoy Lazaga shot random gunfires at a group of friends while they were walking. The victim was hit in the forehead and died after 20 hours in the hospital.
Sources: TvT partner organization. STRAP & The Philippine LGBT Hate Crime Watch
year: 2010

Name: Irem Okan
Age: 28
Profession: not reported
Date: 20/09/10
sort by this date: 20/09/10
Month: September, 2010
Location data: Bursa Turkey
Place: Bursa
Region: Europe
Country: Turkey
Location: own apartment
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: According to the Hurryet newspaper, Irem was stabbed 12 times to death - from her throat to her stomach. The police found the dead body of Irem in the entrance of her apartment.
Sources: TvT partner organisation: Pink Life LGBTT Solidarity Association, Ankara, Turkey
year: 2010

Name: Duda Fernandes
Age: 26
Profession: not reported
Date: 21/09/10
sort by this date: 21/09/10
Month: September, 2010
Location data: Piracicaba, SP Brazil
Place: Piracicaba, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: (Jose Anacleto) Honorato
Age: 24
Profession: not reported
Date: 23/09/10
sort by this date: 23/09/10
Month: September, 2010
Location data: Caruaru, PE Brazil
Place: Caruaru, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Pe 360 Graus, online portal, 24.09.2010
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 26/09/10
sort by this date: 26/09/10
Month: September, 2010
Location data: Chihuahua Mexico
Place: Chihuahua
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: highway
Cause: run-over by car
Remarks: The victim's body was found on 26 Sept. 2010 on the exit of highway Chihuahua-Delicias. Her body showed marks of heavy strokes at the head, and the right ankle bone was exposed. She seemed to had been run over by a heavy car.
Sources: TvT project: El Heraldo de Chihuahua, 27.09.2010
year: 2010

Name: (Ademir) do Nascimento Silva
Age: 21
Profession: sex worker
Date: 27/09/10
sort by this date: 27/09/10
Month: September, 2010
Location data: Avenida Afonso Pena, Belo Horizonte, MG Brazil
Place: Avenida Afonso Pena, Belo Horizonte, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: highway
Cause: shot
Remarks: The crime took place on a highway where sex workers work. According to the police, two men drove by on a motorbike and shot the victim for times.
Sources: TvT project: Terra, online portal, 27.09.2010
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: September, 2010
sort by this date: 30/09/10
Month: September, 2010
Location data: Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, MIMAROPA Philippines
Place: Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, MIMAROPA
Region: Asia
Country: Philippines
Location: river
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was a teenager and was found floating in a river with stab wounds and hematoma of the head.
Sources: TvT partner organization. STRAP
year: 2010

Name: Raiza Allison Valencia Cuero
Age: not reported
Profession: owner of liquor shop
Date: 02/10/10
sort by this date: 02/10/10
Month: October, 2010
Location data: Santiago de Cali Colombia
Place: Santiago de Cali
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location: street (hospital)
Cause: shot
Remarks: Raiza was the owner of a liquor shop in the barrio El Rodeo. While she was standing outside the shop, a man approached her and shot her in the head. The crime happened around 11 pm. Raiza was taken to hospital Carlos Carmona where she died around 5 am the following day.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Observatorio Ciudadano Trans
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 05/10/10
sort by this date: 05/10/10
Month: October, 2010
Location data: San Diego, Medellin Colombia
Place: San Diego, Medellin
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Unidad Permanente para los Derechos Humanos, Medellin, human rights organization, report from 10.12.20 10
year: 2010

Name: (Jefferson) Dias Nicasso
Age: 29
Profession: sex worker
Date: 10/10/10
sort by this date: 10/10/10
Month: October, 2010
Location data: Apericida de Goiania, GO Brazil
Place: Apericida de Goiania, GO
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Luisana (Luis) Gaspar Rojas
Age: 35
Profession: prison inmate
Date: 10/10/10
sort by this date: 10/10/10
Month: October, 2010
Location data: Tacumbu, Asuncion Paraguay
Place: Tacumbu, Asuncion
Region: Central and South America
Country: Paraguay
Location: prison
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Luisana was an inmate of the Tacumbu prison. She was stabbed in the trans person's block of the prison during a fight among inmates. The alleged perpetrator, Cesar Alfredo Lopez Palma, 21, was isolated by the prison authorities.
Sources: TvT project: ABC Digital, online portal, 11.10.2010
year: 2010

Name: Stacey Lee
Age: 31
Profession: not reported
Date: 11/10/10
sort by this date: 11/10/10
Month: October, 2010
Location data: Point Breeze, Philadelphia, PA USA
Place: Point Breeze, Philadelphia, PA
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: own apartment
Cause: strangled
Remarks: Stacey was found dead in her home by her boyfriend. The police said there are no inidcations that the death was a hate crime and investigate it as a homicide. Photographs published after her death suggest that the victim was a person of color.
Sources: TvT project: Philly, online portal, 14.10.2010
year: 2010

Name: Nicanor Barilla
Age: 60
Profession: not reported
Date: 11/10/10
sort by this date: 11/10/10
Month: October, 2010
Location data: Buguey, Cgayan, Philippines
Place: Buguey, Cagayan
Region: Asia
Country: Philippines
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks:
Sources: The Philippine LGBT Hate Crime Watch
year: 2010

Name: Helga (Blanio) Rocha da Silva
Age: 35
Profession: sex worker
Date: 13/10/10
sort by this date: 13/10/10
Month: October, 2010
Location data: Jardim Nova Esperanca, Goiania, GO Brazil
Place: Jardim Nova Esperanca, Goiania, GO
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: own apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks: Elga was a sex worker. She was found shot in the back in her apartment. The police belief the homicide is related to robbery.
Sources: TvT project: Jornal Hoje, online portal, 14.10.2010
year: 2010

Name: Paloma (Willian da Silva Raposa)
Age: 24
Profession: not reported
Date: 17/10/10
sort by this date: 17/10/10
Month: October, 2010
Location data: Terra Rica, PA Brazil
Place: Terra Rica, PA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: O Diario, 12.11.2010
year: 2010

Name: La Tuerta (Jorge Alberto) Santana Morales
Age: 42
Profession: not reported
Date: 17/10/10
sort by this date: 17/10/10
Month: October, 2010
Location data: Armenia, Quindio Colombia
Place: Armenia, Quindio
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: La Tuerta was shot in her head on the street, at the intersection of Carrera 17 and Calle 17.
Sources: TvT project: La Cronica del Quindio, online journal, 19.10.2010
year: 2010

Name: Johana (Hector Ramon) Pinzon
Age: 42
Profession: owner of hairdressers salon, activist
Date: 22/10/10
sort by this date: 22/10/10
Month: October, 2010
Location data: Abdon Calderon, Machala, El Oro Ecuador
Place: Abdon Calderon, Machala, El Oro
Region: Central and South America
Country: Ecuador
Location: friend's apartment
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Johana was found dead in the apartment of her friend Debora, who was also killed. Some sources refer to Johana as Colorada (William) Pinzon. She was the owner of a hairdresser's salon and a member of the trans association Asociacion Trans El Oro. A spokesperson of the group called the killing a hate crime.
Sources: TvT project: Teleamazonas online portal, 25.10.2010; CRE Satelital, online portal, 2.11.2010
year: 2010

Name: Debora (Fausto Rolando) Duran
Age: 46
Profession: activist
Date: 22/10/10
sort by this date: 22/10/10
Month: October, 2010
Location data: Abdon Calderon, Machala, El Oro Ecuador
Place: Abdon Calderon, Machala, El Oro
Region: Central and South America
Country: Ecuador
Location: own apartment
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Debora was found dead in her apartment together with Johana, who was also killed. She was a member of the trans association Asociacion Trans El Oro. A spokesperson of the group called the killing a hate crime.
Sources: TvT project: Teleamazonas online portal, 25.10.2010; CRE Satelital, online portal, 2.11.2010
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 22/10/10
sort by this date: 22/10/10
Month: October, 2010
Location data: Maracabau, CE Brazil
Place: Maracabau, CE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 22/10/10
sort by this date: 22/10/10
Month: October, 2010
Location data: Fortaleza, CE Brazil
Place: Fortaleza, CE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Sonia Burgess
Age: 63
Profession: not reported
Date: 26/10/10
sort by this date: 26/10/10
Month: October, 2010
Location data: London UK
Place: London
Region: Europe
Country: UK
Location: metro station
Cause: pushed under metro
Remarks: Sonia Burgess was a well-known lawyer. She was pushed under a metro train by another trans person she new. The person used the name Nina at the time, but reportedly later identified with the male gender and using the name assigned at birth Senthooran Kanagasingham. The perpetrator pleaded guilty on the basis of diminished responsibility due to suffering from paranoid schizophrenia at the time.
Sources: TvT project: The Guardian, 1.11.2010 & 9.01.2011, BBC News 12.12.2011
year: 2010

Name: Cleisiane
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 27/10/10
sort by this date: 27/10/10
Month: October, 2010
Location data: Urbano Eulalio, Renascenca, Teresina, PI Brazil
Place: Urbano Eulalio, Renascenca, Teresina, PI
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: own apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks: Cleisiane was shot in her apartment. A woman, who is a former prisoner, and a man are suspected to have killed Cleisiane.
Sources: TvT project: Cidade Verde, online portal, 27.10.2010
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 28/10/10
sort by this date: 28/10/10
Month: October, 2010
Location data: Linaloe, Chilpancingo de los Bravo, Guerrero Mexico
Place: Linaloe, Chilpancingo de los Bravo, Guerrero
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Next to the victim's dead body, a note was found saying: 'This is going to happen to happen to all the fucking grasshoppers [chapulines], faithfully, La Senora'. Chapulin is a term used for certain drug traffickers.
Sources: TvT project: Diario 21, 28.10.20010
year: 2010

Name: Erica Luna
Age: 35
Profession: sex worker
Date: 31/10/10
sort by this date: 31/10/10
Month: October, 2010
Location data: Viamonte, Buenos Aires Argentina
Place: Viamonte, Buenos Aires
Region: Central and South America
Country: Argentina
Location: own apartment
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker. She was known as Erica or Luna. She was beaten and stabbed to death in her own apartment.
Sources: TvT project: Clarin online portal, 1.11.2010
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: 38
Profession: not reported
Date: 31/10/10
sort by this date: 31/10/10
Month: October, 2010
Location data: Puerto Lazaro Cardenas, Michoacan Mexico
Place: Puerto Lazaro Cardenas, Michoacan
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim has not yet been identified, but is believed to have been approximately 38 years old. Her body was found leaning against a wall by residents of the settlement Los Lavaderos .
Sources: TvT project: Quadratin online portal, 31.10.2010
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: October, 2010
sort by this date: 31/10/10
Month: October, 2010
Location data: Maracanau, CE Brazil
Place: Maracanau, CE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: beltway
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker. Her body was found on 21 October 2010 near a beltway in an advanced state of decomposition, bearing marks of violence.
Sources: TvT project: Diario do Nordeste, online portal, 21.102010
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: October, 2010
sort by this date: 31/10/10
Month: October, 2010
Location data: Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines
Place: Puerto Princesa, Palawan
Region: Asia
Country: Philippines
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: A trans person who was a teenager was found floating in a river with stab wounds.
Sources: The Philippine LGBT Hate Crime Watch
year: 2010

Name: Nicoll (David Gomez)
Age: not reported
Profession: performer
Date: 01/11/10
sort by this date: 01/11/10
Month: November, 2010
Location data: Tulua Colombia
Place: Tulua
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Nicoll was a performer. She was raped and beaten to death. She was found in a construction site.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Observatorio Ciudadano Trans
year: 2010

Name: Culebra (Duver Herney Cortes)
Age: 25
Profession: sex worker
Date: 02/11/10
sort by this date: 02/11/10
Month: November, 2010
Location data: Parque Julio Rincon, Santiago de Cali Colombia
Place: Parque Julio Rincon, Santiago de Cali
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location: park
Cause: decapitated
Remarks: Culebra was a sex worker. Her body was found in a park, decapitated and with three wounds of a bottle neck in the back.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Observatorio Ciudadano Trans
year: 2010

Name: (Julio Adelino) Rodrigues
Age: 39
Profession: not reported
Date: 03/11/10
sort by this date: 03/11/10
Month: November, 2010
Location data: Recife, PE Brazil
Place: Recife, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 06/11/10
sort by this date: 06/11/10
Month: November, 2010
Location data: Sheikhupura Pakistan
Place: Sheikhupura
Region: Asia
Country: Pakistan
Location: street
Cause: torture, burned
Remarks: Within two days two persons, described as a "cross-dresser" and an "eunuch" have been murdered in a place usually frequented by trans people. Both bodies showed signs of brutal torture and were burned.
Sources: TvT project: The Express Tribune, 8.11.2010
year: 2010

Name: (Adriano Mendes dos Santos)
Age: 20
Profession: not reported
Date: 07/11/10
sort by this date: 07/11/10
Month: November, 2010
Location data: Tubarao, SC Brazil
Place: Tubarao, SC
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: wasteland
Cause: stoned
Remarks: The victim's body was found with a deformed face on a piece of wasteland in the morning of 7 November 2010. A paving stone with blood on it used to kill the victim was found next to the body. The victim was from the city of Paranagua in the state of Parana.
Sources: TvT project: Litoral Total, online portal (w/o date); Unisul TV, 8.11.2010
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 07/11/10
sort by this date: 07/11/10
Month: November, 2010
Location data: Sheikhupura Pakistan
Place: Sheikhupura
Region: Asia
Country: Pakistan
Location:
Cause: torture, burned
Remarks: Within two days two persons, described as a "cross-dresser" and an "eunuch" have been murdered in a place usually frequented by trans people. Both bodies showed signs of brutal torture and were burned.
Sources: TvT project: The Express Tribune, 8.11.2010
year: 2010

Name: Raissa (Ronaldo Sabino de Lima)
Age: 25
Profession: sex worker
Date: 08/11/10
sort by this date: 08/11/10
Month: November, 2010
Location data: Coronel Fabriciano, MG Brazil
Place: Coronel Fabriciano, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: motel
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Raissa was stabbed with a penknife in a motel. Motel employees had heard screams around 2.30 am and a noise of something falling. When they went checking what happened, they found the staircase and room marked with blood, and the dead body of Raissa. The police suspect the university student Roney de Oliveira Bramusse, 33, to have committed the crime and to have fled the scene right after. Raissa had been living in Coronel Fabriciano and is reported to had been working as a sex worker in the nearby city of Ipatinga. The police arrested Roney de Oliveira on 18 April 2011. He had lived with a fake identity in the city of Espera Feliz.
Sources: TvT project: Jornal do Vale do Aco, online journal, 10.11.2010, Portal Caparao, 20.4.2011
year: 2010

Name: Emanuelly Colaco Tabordo
Age: 39
Profession: sex worker
Date: 09/11/10
sort by this date: 09/11/10
Month: November, 2010
Location data: Praia de Leste, PR Brazil
Place: Praia de Leste, PR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: strangled
Remarks: Emanuelly was a sex worker, who was strangled with her own blouse.
Sources: TvT project: Correi do Litoral 12.11.2010 and Parana Online 12.11.2010
year: 2010

Name: Rani
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: 11/11/10
sort by this date: 11/11/10
Month: November, 2010
Location data: Surat, Orissa India
Place: Surat, Orissa
Region: Asia
Country: India
Location:
Cause: strangled
Remarks: The victim was strangled with a dupatta, a traditional scarf.
Sources: TvT project: Times of India, 14.11.2010
year: 2010

Name: Serap
Age: 51
Profession: not reported
Date: 12/11/10
sort by this date: 12/11/10
Month: November, 2010
Location data: Yesildere Cd, Izmir Turkey
Place: Yesildere Cd, Izmir
Region: Europe
Country: Turkey
Location: own car
Cause: throat-cut
Remarks: The victim was found dead in her car.
Sources: TvT project: Pink Life LGBTT Solidarity Association, Ankara,Turkey; DHA, news agency, 1.03.2010
year: 2010

Name: Diego Gregorio
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 13/11/10
sort by this date: 13/11/10
Month: November, 2010
Location data: Matao, SP Brazil
Place: Matao, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Jornal A Hora Online, 15.11.2010; TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 14/11/10
sort by this date: 14/11/10
Month: November, 2010
Location data: Marcos Highway, Baguio City Philippines
Place: Marcos Highway, Baguio City
Region: Asia
Country: Philippines
Location: highway
Cause: stabbed
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: STRAP
year: 2010

Name: Mauri
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 19/11/10
sort by this date: 19/11/10
Month: November, 2010
Location data: Montalvania, MG Brazil
Place: Montalvania, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 19/11/10
sort by this date: 19/11/10
Month: November, 2010
Location data: Av Juarez, Chihuahua, CHIH
Place: Chihuahua, CHIH
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was one of two trans sex workers killed in the area within 24 hours.
Sources: TvT project: E Newspaper, online journal, 22.11.2010
year: 2010

Name: La Fabiola
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 20/11/10
sort by this date: 20/11/10
Month: November, 2010
Location data: Av Juarez, Chihuahua, CHIH
Place: Chihuahua, CHIH
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: La Fabiola was shot 9 times at 9 pm. She was the second trans sex worker killed in the area within 24 hours.
Sources: TvT project: E Newspaper, online journal, 22.11.2010
year: 2010

Name: Greth de Ogum (Lirio Santo da Silva)
Age: 45
Profession: mae de santos (afro-religious leader)
Date: 24/11/10
sort by this date: 24/11/10
Month: November, 2010
Location data: Ipira, BA Brazil
Place: Ipira, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: market/own car
Cause: shot
Remarks: Greth was a well-known Afro-religious leader (mae de santos). The killing happened around 5:30 pm in the middle of a food market. Greth had just finished shopping and got shot in her car. According to witnesses, two men on a motorbike drove near the car, fired two shots into the victim's mouth and fled the scene.
Sources: TvT project: Tribuna da Bahia, online portal, 25.11.2010
year: 2010

Name: Jurema (Evandro Santos da Silva)
Age: 32
Profession: mae de santos (afro-religious leader)
Date: 25/11/10
sort by this date: 25/11/10
Month: November, 2010
Location data: Ipira, BA Brazil
Place: Ipira, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Jurema was an Afro-religious leader (mae de santos) and shot three times by a man on a motorbike.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: (Fernando)
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 25/11/10
sort by this date: 25/11/10
Month: November, 2010
Location data: Ipira, BA Brazil
Place: Ipira, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker and was shot twice.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Gopiamma Ansar
Age: 55
Profession: guru
Date: 26/11/10
sort by this date: 26/11/10
Month: November, 2010
Location data: Parksite, Mumbai, India
Place: Mumbai
Region: Asia
Country: India
Location: own apartment (hospital)
Cause: strangled
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Times of India 28.11.2010
year: 2010

Name: Julia Collier
Age: 35
Profession: singer, pianist
Date: 27/11/10
sort by this date: 27/11/10
Month: November, 2010
Location data: Kusadasi, Turkey
Place: Kusadasi
Region: Europe
Country: Turkey
Location: own apartment
Cause: smothered
Remarks: The victim was of Russian descent living with her British husband in Turkey. Her husband, 40year-old Chris Collier, a salesman, smothered her in their own apartment, after he found out that his bride had sex reassignment surgery. In the trial he stated that she 'used to be a bloke'. He was sentenced on August 6 2012 to 24 years imprisonment by a Turkish court.
Sources: TvT project: Daily Mail, UK, 27.09.2012; GayStar News 27.09.2011
year: 2010

Name: Adriana
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 27/11/10
sort by this date: 27/11/10
Month: November, 2010
Location data: Quito Ecuador
Place: Quito
Region: Central and South America
Country: Ecuador
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Asociación Silueta X, 21.02.2011
year: 2010

Name: Yuliper (Wilmer Madera)
Age: 26
Profession: not reported
Date: 28/11/10
sort by this date: 28/11/10
Month: November, 2010
Location data:
Place:
Region: Central and South America
Country: Dominican Republic
Location: street (hospital)
Cause: shot
Remarks: Yuliper was walking on the street with friends when a car conducted by a car and in company of a men approached them. The men tried to pull Yuliper into the car, but when Yuliper resisted, the man shot him into the throat. Yuliper kept bleeding for two hours until the police arrived and took the victim to hospital. Due to lack of blood, a surgery was not made. Friends offered to donate blood, but the hospital staff refused to accept this, supposedly because they were gay and trans.
Sources: TvT project: TRANSSA, trans group in Dominican Republic, 20.11.2011
year: 2010

Name: Idania Roberta Sevilla Raudales
Age: 58
Profession: owner of beauty salon
Date: 28/11/10
sort by this date: 28/11/10
Month: November, 2010
Location data: Comayaguela Honduras
Place: Comayaguela
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location: own apartment
Cause: throat-cut
Remarks: Idania Roberta owned a beauty Salon. She was killed in her own apartment. Her body was found more than 24 hours after the killing. The victim's hands and feet were tied together, and the throat showed the wound of a knife.
Sources: TvT project: La prensa, online portal, 29.11.2010
year: 2010

Name: Sandra (Sandro Heleno)
Age: 40
Profession: owner of boarding house for travestis
Date: 29/11/10
sort by this date: 29/11/10
Month: November, 2010
Location data: Brasilia, DF Brazil
Place: Brasilia, DF
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Sandra was the owner of a boarding house for travestis. She was shot in the mouth.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Marcinha
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 29/11/10
sort by this date: 29/11/10
Month: November, 2010
Location data: Santa Maria, Brasilia, DF Brazil
Place: Santa Maria, Brasilia, DF
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: own apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks: Marcinha was shot in her own apartment.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Valentina (Oscar Andres Triana Lozano)
Age: 18
Profession: not reported
Date: November, 2010
sort by this date: 30/11/10
Month: November, 2010
Location data: Ibague Colombia
Place: Ibague
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location: tank
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Valentina's body was found on 28 November in a state of decomposition in a tank. She had been missing for eight days. The eyes and one hand were missing. Locals assume that swine living in the area ate the hand. Relatives belief that Valentina became a victim of hatred of travestis. She had moved from Medellin to Ibague recently.
Sources: TvT project: Ecos del Combeima, online portal, 29.11.2010; El Tiempo, online portal (w/o date)
year: 2010

Name: Alison
Age: not reported
Profession: hairdresser
Date: November, 2010
sort by this date: 30/11/10
Month: November, 2010
Location data: Salitre Ecuador
Place: Salitre
Region: Central and South America
Country: Ecuador
Location:
Cause: hanged
Remarks: Alison was a hairdresser and was found half naked.
Sources: TvT project: Asociación Silueta X, 21.02.2011
year: 2010

Name: Amir
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: November, 2010
sort by this date: 30/11/10
Month: November, 2010
Location data: Allama Iqbal, Lahore, Pakistan
Place: Lahore
Region: Asia
Country: Pakistan
Location: police station
Cause: shot
Remarks: The Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court ordered to probe the death of Amir who was allegedly shot death at a police station. The police alledgedly murdered Amir and later declared it an accident, the Pakistan newspaper Daily Times reported.
Sources: TvT project: Daily Times 01.12.2010
year: 2010

Name: Kirat Pal
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 01/12/10
sort by this date: 01/12/10
Month: December, 2010
Location data: Greater Noida India
Place: Greater Noida
Region: Asia
Country: India
Location:
Cause: throat-cut
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Hindustan Times, 02.12.2010
year: 2010

Name: (Charm Ashwan) Williams
Age: 22
Profession: sex worker
Date: 03/12/10
sort by this date: 03/12/10
Month: December, 2010
Location data: Kingston Jamaica
Place: Kingston
Region: Central and South America
Country: Jamaica
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker.
Sources: TvT project: AP 05.12.2010, Go-Jamaica 05.12.2010, Mpetrelis Blog 08.12.2010 & Transgriot Blog 08.12.2010
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 03/12/10
sort by this date: 03/12/10
Month: December, 2010
Location data: Hidrolandia, GO Brazil
Place: Hidrolandia, GO
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: (Reinaldo Davino da Silva)
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 05/12/10
sort by this date: 05/12/10
Month: December, 2010
Location data: Benedito Bentes, Maceio, AL Brazil
Place: Benedito Bentes, Maceio, AL
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: wasteland
Cause: strangled
Remarks: The victim's body was found on 5 December 2010 with marks of strangling on a piece of wasteland. The police suspect that the victim had a sexual relation with the perpetrator prior to the crime, as her cloths were down.
Sources: TvT project: Aqui Acontece, online portal, 5.12.2010
year: 2010

Name: Mica (Michel Felipe Teles dos Santos)
Age: 22
Profession: not reported
Date: 07/12/10
sort by this date: 07/12/10
Month: December, 2010
Location data: Umarizal, Belem, PA Brazil
Place: Umarizal, Belem, PA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: pubic square (hospital)
Cause: shot
Remarks: Mica was killed by two gun shots on a public square called Ver-o-Rio in the evening. Mica was with ten friends, who stated that prior to the event, one of them had made a joke when a military police car passed. One of the police officers said "Go on laughing and you will see what is going to happen!". Around twenty minutes later, two men came on a motorbike. One of them got off the motorbike, pointed at Mica and said "Yes, it's you!". He fired two shots at Mica. Her friends called and ambulance and Mica died in hospital. According to friends and relatives, Mica had repeatedly been ridiculed by two police men and subjected to humiliating intimate body searches on the square Ver-o-Rio as well as in front of her own house.
Sources: TvT project: ORM online portal, 9.12.2010
year: 2010

Name: (Jocivaldo Alves)
Age: 26
Profession: not reported
Date: 09/12/10
sort by this date: 09/12/10
Month: December, 2010
Location data: Ibirapitanga, BA Brazil
Place: Ibirapitanga, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was from the nearby city of Urucuca and known for walking the streets of Ibirapitanga. Her body was found with stabbs all over her neck and ribcage.
Sources: TvT project: Ubata Noticias, online portal, 9.12.2010
year: 2010

Name: Pamela (Edwin Franklin Sandoval Henao)
Age: 26
Profession: sex worker
Date: 13/12/10
sort by this date: 13/12/10
Month: December, 2010
Location data: Santiago de Cali Colombia
Place: Santiago de Cali
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location: highway
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker and was presumably shot by a client. Her body was left on the highway where the crime took place.
Sources: TvT project: El Pais, online portal, 13.12.2010; TvT partner organization: Observatorio Ciudadano Trans
year: 2010

Name: Nataly Rojas
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: 13/12/10
sort by this date: 13/12/10
Month: December, 2010
Location data: Candelaria Colombia
Place: Candelaria
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Nataly had come from Spain shortly before she was killed.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Observatorio Ciudadano Trans
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 15/12/10
sort by this date: 15/12/10
Month: December, 2010
Location data: Moreno, PE Brazil
Place: Moreno, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Farlen (Joabe Goncalves Chaves)
Age: 24
Profession: sex worker
Date: 17/12/10
sort by this date: 17/12/10
Month: December, 2010
Location data: Nova Serrana, MG Brazil
Place: Nova Serrana, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Farlen was a sex worker. She was shot at around 3.15 am, on a street where sex workers work by two unknown person on a motorbike.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Lorenza Alexis Alvarado Hernandez
Age: 23
Profession: not reported
Date: 18/12/10
sort by this date: 18/12/10
Month: December, 2010
Location data: Comayaguela Honduras
Place: Comayaguela
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location:
Cause: stoned
Remarks: "Alexis Alvarado Hernandez was found dead, her body visibly beaten and burned. Bloody stones near her corpse indicate that the bruises covering her body were caused by stoning. Her body was set on fire. Used condoms found nearby have led to the suspicion that she may also have been raped. After her death, the assailants threw her body into a ditch. News reports indicate that severe injuries to her face rendered her corpse virtually unrecognizable." (IGLHRC website)
Sources: TvT project: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Press Release 4/11, 20.1.2011; IGLHRC website, 10.1.2011
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: 30
Profession: beautician
Date: 18/12/10
sort by this date: 18/12/10
Month: December, 2010
Location data: Planalto Serrano, Serra, ES Brazil
Place: Planalto Serrano, Serra, ES
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: eucalyptus grove
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim was clubbed to death with a wrench in the early morning. She was approximately 30 years old. Her body was found in a eucalyptus grove. Her legs and parts of her back were burnt. According to locals, the victim lived in the area and worked in her brother's beauty salon.
Sources: TvT project: A Gazeta Online, 18.12.10
year: 2010

Name: Diana
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 18/12/10
sort by this date: 18/12/10
Month: December, 2010
Location data: Valle del Cauca Colombia
Place: Valle del Cauca
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Diana was killed during a shoot-out in a place referred to as "el Pecado".
Sources: TvT partner organization: Observatorio Ciudadano Trans
year: 2010

Name: Lady Oscar (Oscar Martinez Salgado)
Age: 45
Profession: not reported
Date: 20/12/10
sort by this date: 20/12/10
Month: December, 2010
Location data: Barrio El Rincon,Tegucigalpa Honduras
Place: Barrio El Rincon,Tegucigalpa
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location: own apartment
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Lady Oscar was killed in her own apartment and set on fire. Her body showed wounds of several stabs. Neighbours reported to have seen two men running out of the apartment after it was set on fire, around 1 am. Relatives assume that Lady Oscar was stabbed and subsequently burnt. They say that no valuables were in the apartment, and that a month earlier, three men called Pununao, Loretao and Chamorrao attacked Lady Oscar and injured him on the throat.
Sources: TvT project: El Heraldo, online journal, 23.12.2010; IGLHRC website, 10.1.2011
year: 2010

Name: Mirela
Age: 16
Profession: not reported
Date: 21/12/10
sort by this date: 21/12/10
Month: December, 2010
Location data: Rua Desembargador Ermelino de Leao, Curitiba, PA Brazil
Place: Rua Desembargador Ermelino de Leao, Curitiba, PA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: restaurant
Cause: shot
Remarks: According to news reports, the victim was a travesti of approximately 16 years of age. She was at a restaurant with four other travestis. Two men on a motorbike stopped in front of the restaurant. One of them held the doorman tight while the other one shot at the group. Another trans person got killed and three got injured.
Sources: TvT project: G1 online portal, 21.12.10
year: 2010

Name: Eduarda (Douglas Lermes Resende)
Age: 22
Profession: not reported
Date: 21/12/10
sort by this date: 21/12/10
Month: December, 2010
Location data: Rua Desembargador Ermelino de Leao, Curitiba, PA Brazil
Place: Rua Desembargador Ermelino de Leao, Curitiba, PA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: restaurant
Cause: shot
Remarks: According to news reports, the victim was a travesti and was at a restaurant with four other travestis. Two men on a motorbike stopped in front of the restaurant. One of them held the doorman tight while the other one shot at the group. Another trans person got killed and three got injured.
Sources: TvT project: G1, online portal, 21.12.10
year: 2010

Name: Papia
Age: 32
Profession: not reported
Date: 22/12/10
sort by this date: 22/12/10
Month: December, 2010
Location data: Badda, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Place: Dhaka
Region: Asia
Country: Bangladesh
Location: street
Cause: beaten/thrown from rooftop
Remarks: Papia was described as a hermaphrodite (Hijra). When celebrating a ritual for a newborn, an argument reagrding the payment resulted in a violent attack from a group of 20 youth, in which 6 friends of Papia were injured and hospitalized and Papia died. The next day 100 hijras demonstrated and demanded the punishment to the killers.
Sources: TvT project: The Daily Star 23.12.2010
year: 2010

Name: (Carlos Bispo dos Santos)
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 23/12/10
sort by this date: 23/12/10
Month: December, 2010
Location data: Goiania, GO Brazil
Place: Goiania, GO
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Erica (Eric Pinheiro de Siqueira)
Age: 14
Profession: sex worker
Date: 25/12/10
sort by this date: 25/12/10
Month: December, 2010
Location data: Pajucara, Maceio, AL Brazil
Place: Pajucara, Maceio, AL
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Erica was a sex worker and was shot eleven times in the night of the 25th.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2010)
year: 2010

Name: Luisa (Luis Rocha da Silva)
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 27/12/10
sort by this date: 27/12/10
Month: December, 2010
Location data: Dr. Silvio Leite, Boa Vista, RR Brazil
Place: Dr. Silvio Leite, Boa Vista, RR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: own apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks: Luisa was shot twice in the neck. Her body was found in her apartment on a chair. A neighbor reports having seen two persons running out of the apartment and driving away on a motorbike. The police assume she was executed.
Sources: TvT project: Roraima Hoje, online portal, 28.12.2010
year: 2010

Name: Cheo Reana Bustamente
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 29/12/10
sort by this date: 29/12/10
Month: December, 2010
Location data: Colonia Alameda, Tegucigalpa Honduras
Place: Colonia Alameda, Tegucigalpa
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Cheo was a young travesti. Her body was found on 2 January 2011. "Her body was left without legal documentation. She appears to have died from a severe stab wound to her chest."
Sources: TvT project: IGLHRC website, 10.1.2011; HRW website, 31.1.2011
year: 2010

Name: Jelwin Tolentino
Age: 20
Profession: not reported
Date: December, 2010
sort by this date: 31/12/10
Month: December, 2010
Location data: Aklan Philippines
Place: Aklan
Region: Asia
Country: Philippines
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The victim was probably a trans girl and was found dead without clothes.
Sources: TvT partner organization: STRAP
year: 2010

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: December, 2010
sort by this date: 31/12/10
Month: December, 2010
Location data: Santiago de Cali Colombia
Place: Santiago de Cali
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim's body was found shot on 13 December on a street.
Sources: TvT project: El Pais, 13.12.2010.
year: 2010

Name: Lalie Cabrera
Age: 40
Profession: masseuse
Date: 05/01/11
sort by this date: 05/01/11
Month: January, 2011
Location data: Purok 5, Katangawan, General Santos City, Mindanao, Philippnes
Place: Genral Santos City
Region: Asia
Country: Philippines
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was stabbed 13 times.
Sources: The Philippine LGBT Hate Crime Watch
year: 2011

Name: Genesis Briget Makaligton
Age: 25
Profession: not reported
Date: 07/01/11
sort by this date: 07/01/11
Month: January, 2011
Location data: Comayaguela Honduras
Place: Comayaguela
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location: pharmacy
Cause: strangled
Remarks: Genesis was around 23 to 27 years of age. Her body was left in front of a pharmacy, next to the body of an unidentified man. According to media reports, the deaths occurred between 4 and 6 pm in different locations. The perpetrators immediately fled the scene.
Sources: TvT project: IGLHRC, online portal, 12.01.2011; Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Press Release No 4/11, 20.01.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: 32
Profession: not reported
Date: 07/01/11
sort by this date: 07/01/11
Month: January, 2011
Location data: Rua Doutor Cochrane, Santos, SP Brazil
Place: Rua Doutor Cochrane, Santos, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: According to witnesses, the victim was shot by persons who drove by in a vehicle.
Sources: TvT project: Tribuna Online, online portal, 7.01.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: 08/01/11
sort by this date: 08/01/11
Month: January, 2011
Location data: Ocoyoacac Mexico
Place: Ocoyoacac
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: forest
Cause: burned
Remarks: The victim's was found on the 8th completely burnt in the forest area of La Marquesa. As the body did not show any wounds, the police assume the victim was burnt alive. She was around 30 years of age.
Sources: TvT project: El Sol de Toluca, 9.1.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 08/01/11
sort by this date: 08/01/11
Month: January, 2011
Location data: Paraiso ni Juan, Sulvec Narvacan, Illocos Sur, Philippines
Place: Ilocos Sur
Region: Asia
Country: Philippines
Location: shore
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim is identified in the news as 'bading' and was raped before by three people and dumped by the shore.
Sources: TvT partner organization. STRAP & The Philippine LGBT Hate Crime Watch
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: 23
Profession: not reported
Date: 09/01/11
sort by this date: 09/01/11
Month: January, 2011
Location data: Apatzingan, Michoacan Mexico
Place: Apatzingan, Michoacan
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: construction area
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim's body was found in the morning of the 9th in a crouched position, leaned against a tree in a construction area. She was about 20 to 25 years old and her body had eight bullet wounds in the face, chest and arms.
Sources: TvT project: La Policiaca, online portal, 9.1.2011
year: 2011

Name: Krissy Bates
Age: 45
Profession: sex worker
Date: 12/01/11
sort by this date: 12/01/11
Month: January, 2011
Location data: Minneapolis, Linden Avenue USA
Place: Minneapolis, Linden Avenue
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: own apartment
Cause: stabbed, strangled
Remarks: The victim was worried about her safety in the weeks leading up to the homicide, because she was sexually aussaulted. The murderer was a man the victim met online and started to date for a short time. The murderer confessed that he "dispatched" Bates by strangling her with his hands. He allegedly moved her body to the floor and saw it "jump." He told police he did not want her to "come back," so he took a folding knife from a hutch and stabbed Bates several times, according to the charges. Bates' cause of death was complex homicidal violence, with four stab wounds to the torso and one to the left side of the neck. The victim also had broken ribs, and the hyoid bone in her throat was loosened, a sign of strangulation.
Sources: TvT project: Star Tribune, 13.01.20011 & 21.01.2011
year: 2011

Name: Adriana
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 12/01/11
sort by this date: 12/01/11
Month: January, 2011
Location data: Cariacica, ES Brazil
Place: Cariacica, ES
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: highway
Cause: shot
Remarks: According to the police, the crime happened around 9 pm on a highway. Adriana was working as a sex worker, waiting for clients. A car with two unidentified men is reported to have stopped nearby. One of them got out of the car and, without talking, fired numerous shots at Adriana.
Sources: TvT project: O Globo/A Gazeta Online, 13.01.11
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 15/01/11
sort by this date: 15/01/11
Month: January, 2011
Location data: Centro, Joao Pessoa, PB Brazil
Place: Centro, Joao Pessoa, PB
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stoned
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: PB Agora, online portal, 16.01.2011
year: 2011

Name: Laisa (Jose Ramiro Guevara Cortes)
Age: 52
Profession: not reported
Date: 16/01/11
sort by this date: 16/01/11
Month: January, 2011
Location data: Quindio Colombia
Place: Quindio
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Laisa's body was found with a stab wound in the neck in the morning of the 30th in her apartment. According to a news report, she was very well-known in the local area. Public authorities assume that it was a homicide or murder.
Sources: TvT project: Cronica del Quindio, 17.1.2011
year: 2011

Name: Angela (Angel Segundo Pirela Garcia)
Age: 19
Profession: not reported
Date: 17/01/11
sort by this date: 17/01/11
Month: January, 2011
Location data: Maracaibo Venezuela
Place: Maracaibo
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location: own apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks: Angela's body was found in the morning of the 17th on the side of a highway in the congregation of Francisco Eugenio Bustamante with shots in the temple, the cheekbone and the head. According to relatives, Angela had been working as a sex worker for three years in different parts of the city and been taking a course to become a hairdresser.
Sources: TvT project: Noticia al Dia, online journal, 19.01.2011
year: 2011

Name: Fergie (William Afif Hernandez)
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 17/01/11
sort by this date: 17/01/11
Month: January, 2011
Location data: San Pedro Sula Honduras
Place: San Pedro Sula
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location: pavement
Cause: shot
Remarks: Fergie's body was found dead on a pavement in a residential area with gun shots in the head and the rib cage.
Sources: TvT project: Athos GLS, online portal, 21.01.2011
year: 2011

Name: Marcia (Marcio Pereira)
Age: 30
Profession: sex worker
Date: 18/01/11
sort by this date: 18/01/11
Month: January, 2011
Location data: Rua Tufie Mahfud, Centro, Jaragua do Sul, SC Brazil
Place: Rua Tufie Mahfud, Centro, Jaragua do Sul, SC
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: car (hospital)
Cause: shot
Remarks: Marcia was a sex worker. According to a colleague who was nearby, Marcia had been in a car where there was a discussion. The police report that she was shot in the neck, and thrown out of the car. The perpetrator escaped the scene and Marcia died in the emergency room of a hospital. According to her sister, Marcia was from Itajai, but had been living in Jaragua for 15 years,
Sources: TvT project: A Noticia Joinville, online journal, 20.01.2011
year: 2011

Name: Mini Britany (Lener Dario Lopez Fernandez)
Age: 30
Profession: sex worker
Date: 20/01/11
sort by this date: 20/01/11
Month: January, 2011
Location data: Santa Cruz Bolivia
Place: Santa Cruz
Region: Central and South America
Country: Bolivia
Location: street
Cause: strangled
Remarks: Mini was killed in the early morning of the 22th on Calle Portachuelo. While public authorities assumed it was a act of vengeance related to a so-called crime of passion, the trans activist organisation Red-Trebol doubt this is true. Mini had been seen entering a car with two young men and two days later a witness saw the alleged perpetrators dispose Mini's body on a street.
Sources: TvT project: El Dia, online journal, 24.01.11; La Prensa, online portal, 3.2.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 20/01/11
sort by this date: 20/01/11
Month: January, 2011
Location data: Guadalajara Mexico
Place: Guadalajara
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location:
Cause: strangled
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011; Mural-Toluca, online portal, 29.1.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 22/01/11
sort by this date: 22/01/11
Month: January, 2011
Location data: Capao Bonito, SP Brazil
Place: Capao Bonito, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was found dead with 20 stabs in the face and the stomach. The alleged perpetrator was the 37-year-old resident of the house in or near which the killing took place. He had already been charged with murder and was facing a long prison sentence.
Sources: TvT project: Tem Mais, online portal, 22.01.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: 22
Profession: not reported
Date: 23/01/11
sort by this date: 23/01/11
Month: January, 2011
Location data: Jambeiro, SP Brazil
Place: Jambeiro, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: amusement park
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The crime happened in an amusement park in the early morning. On 26 January, the police arrested a man who confessed having stabbed the victim after a discussion.
Sources: TvT project: VNews, online portal, 24.01.2011 & 26.01.2011
year: 2011

Name: Natasha (Joao Leandro Rosario dos Santos)
Age: 26
Profession: sex worker
Date: 24/01/11
sort by this date: 24/01/11
Month: January, 2011
Location data: Avenida Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, Cidade Industrial, Curitiba, PR Brazil
Place: Avenida Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, Cidade Industrial, Curitiba, PR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: stoned
Remarks: Natasha was killed on a street where she used to do sex work. According to relatives, she did not have a stable home. The police inform that she had been subject to two attempted murders. According to her aunt, in one of these attacks, one of the aunt's nephews was severely injured.
Sources: TvT project: Parana Online, online portal, 25.01.11
year: 2011

Name: (Ivo Valentin)
Age: 28
Profession: sex worker
Date: 25/01/11
sort by this date: 25/01/11
Month: January, 2011
Location data: Avenida Marechal Floriano Peixoto, Curitiba, PR Brazil
Place: Avenida Marechal Floriano Peixoto, Curitiba, PR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim's body was found dead on the morning of 25 January 2011 with at least three shots in the face. Her panties had been lowered.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2011); Crimes Curitiba, online portal, 25.01.2011
year: 2011

Name: Mariana (Jose Daniel Aricuri)
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 25/01/11
sort by this date: 25/01/11
Month: January, 2011
Location data: Oran, Salta Argentina
Place: Oran, Salta
Region: Central and South America
Country: Argentina
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Mariana was well-known in the area. She was a sex worker. Her body was found on the 29th on a hill near the city of Oran with 30 machete stabs, mostly in the face. The hands were missing as they had been eaten by swine that are kept by locals and by dogs. The police assume that Mariana was killed at a different place and her body been carried to the hillside around four days earlier.
Sources: TvT project: 26 Noticias, online portal, 31.1.2011
year: 2011

Name: Mary (Edgar Otto Helmut) Schiekfer
Age: 56
Profession: not reported
Date: not reported
sort by this date: 1/28/2011
Month: February, 2011
Location data: Torre del Lagao, Italy
Place: Torre del Lago
Region: Europe
Country: Italy
Location: pine wood
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Mary was of German descent and lived in a cabn in a pine wood near Torre del Lago. Shortly before her death, she was attacked by several young men and suffered severe injuries. She was treated in hospital.
Sources: TvT project: Gay TV 21.02.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 29/01/11
sort by this date: 29/01/11
Month: January, 2011
Location data: Zapopan, Jalisco Mexico
Place: Zapopan, Jalisco
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011; Mural-Toluca, online portal, 29.1.2011
year: 2011

Name: Alejandra Marin
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 30/01/11
sort by this date: 30/01/11
Month: January, 2011
Location data: Valle del Cauca Colombia
Place: Valle del Cauca
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Alejandra was a sex worker and supposedly killed by a client.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Observatorio Ciudadano Trans
year: 2011

Name: Angie
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 30/01/11
sort by this date: 30/01/11
Month: January, 2011
Location data: Santiago de Cali Colombia
Place: Santiago de Cali
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Angie was shot five times.
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011
year: 2011

Name: Carla
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 31/01/11
sort by this date: 31/01/11
Month: January, 2011
Location data: Penedo, AL Brazil
Place: Penedo, AL
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Carla had been living in the city of Aracaju for months and came to visit her mother. She was shot on 29 January and died on the 31st.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: January, 2011
sort by this date: 31/01/11
Month: January, 2011
Location data: Kostroma Russia
Place: Kostroma
Region: Europe
Country: Russia
Location: own apartment
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The victim was found dead in her house in a little village in the Kostroma region. The dead occured at the beginning of January.
Sources: TvT project: Russian LGBT Network, 23.01.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: January, 2011
sort by this date: 31/01/11
Month: January, 2011
Location data: Barinas Venezuela
Place: Barinas
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Two young travestis were killed in a horrible manner. The cases were not properly examined and simply treated as 'issues of drugs'.
Sources: TvT questionnaire research
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: January, 2011
sort by this date: 31/01/11
Month: January, 2011
Location data: La Victoria Venezuela
Place: La Victoria
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Two young travestis were killed in a horrible manner. The cases were not properly examined and simply treated as 'issues of drugs'.
Sources: TvT questionnaire research
year: 2011

Name: Geruza
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 01/02/11
sort by this date: 01/02/11
Month: February, 2011
Location data: Joao Pessoa, PB Brazil
Place: Joao Pessoa, PB
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Paraiba News, online portal, 18.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: 28
Profession: not reported
Date: 02/02/11
sort by this date: 02/02/11
Month: February, 2011
Location data: Recoleta, Buenos Aires Argentina
Place: Recoleta, Buenos Aires
Region: Central and South America
Country: Argentina
Location: own apartment
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim's body was found with numerous stab wounds in her apartment. None of her belongings were found missing. She was of Peruvian origin.
Sources: TvT project: Diario Hoy, online portal, 2.2.2011
year: 2011

Name: Laura Renan
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 02/02/11
sort by this date: 02/02/11
Month: February, 2011
Location data: Sao Sebastian, MG Brazil
Place: Sao Sebastian, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Laura was a sex worker and was killed on the street.
Sources: TvT partner organisation: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2011)
year: 2011

Name: Lorraine
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 04/02/11
sort by this date: 04/02/11
Month: February, 2011
Location data: Senador Canedo, GO Brazil
Place: Senador Canedo, GO
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Leo Mendes LGBTT blog, 19.02.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 04/02/11
sort by this date: 04/02/11
Month: February, 2011
Location data: Pinheiros, Sao Paulo, SP Brazil
Place: Pinheiros, Sao Paulo, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The crime occurred opposite the Jockey Club in Sao Paulo's Zona Sul. According to a witness, there was the perpetrator had a discussion with the victim before he killed her and fled the scene in a pickup.
Sources: TvT project: O Tempo Online, online portal, 5.2.2011
year: 2011

Name: (Esteban Gonzalez Gomez)
Age: 25
Profession: not reported
Date: 07/02/11
sort by this date: 07/02/11
Month: February, 2011
Location data: Alvaro Obregon, Michoacan Mexico
Place: Alvaro Obregon, Michoacan
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim's body had been abandoned on a plot of land and showed numerous wounds from shotguns in the head and the back.
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011; Provincia, online journal, 7.2.2011
year: 2011

Name: Fernanda
Age: 17
Profession: not reported
Date: 09/02/11
sort by this date: 09/02/11
Month: February, 2011
Location data: Hidrolandia, GO Brazil
Place: Hidrolandia, GO
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Fernanda was shot by a watchman.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia
year: 2011

Name: Taira Evelyn (Luis Fernando Ormeno)
Age: 23
Profession: sex worker, hairdresser
Date: 12/02/11
sort by this date: 12/02/11
Month: February, 2011
Location data: Quito Ecuador
Place: Quito
Region: Central and South America
Country: Ecuador
Location: street
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was killed with a bottleneck. She was from the city of Manabi and identified by friends.
Sources: TvT project: TvT research; El Universo, online portal, 16.2.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 12/02/11
sort by this date: 12/02/11
Month: February, 2011
Location data: Torres del PRI, Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua Mexico
Place: Torres del PRI, Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: bar
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was shot along with seven other persons in a bar. The police consider failure to pay regarding an extortion to a criminal gang to be the most likely motif.
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011; Expreso online journal, w/o date
year: 2011

Name: Nicol Balanta
Age: 17
Profession: not reported
Date: 13/02/11
sort by this date: 13/02/11
Month: February, 2011
Location data: Valle del Cauca Colombia
Place: Valle del Cauca
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Nicole was killed by a man using the name "El Tigre".
Sources: TvT partner organization: Observatorio Ciudadano Trans
year: 2011

Name: Capenga (Eduardo Marinho da Silva)
Age: 28
Profession: sex worker
Date: 14/02/11
sort by this date: 14/02/11
Month: February, 2011
Location data: Rua Macedo de Aguiar, Salvador, BA Brazil
Place: Rua Macedo de Aguiar, Salvador, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: wasteland
Cause: strangled
Remarks: Capenga's body was found on a piece of wasteland showing wounds of beatings, stabs and strangulation. According to residents, Capenga, who was a sex worker, went with a client to the wasteland where the murder happened.
Sources: TvT project: Tribuna da Bahia, online portal, 15.02.2011
year: 2011

Name: Moni (Roberto Marcos) Castro
Age: 56
Profession: sex worker, hairdresser
Date: 14/02/11
sort by this date: 14/02/11
Month: February, 2011
Location data: Moreno, Buenos Aires Argentina
Place: Moreno, Buenos Aires
Region: Central and South America
Country: Argentina
Location: street (hospital)
Cause: shot
Remarks: Moni had been well known in the General Rodriquez district of Buenos Aires in the 1980s, as she was a prominent hairdresser. Since the 90s, she was known in the nearby district of Moreno. Moni was shot shortly before midnight on a street where she used to do sex work. She was with a colleague as two young men on a motorbike approached her. An exchange followed that ended with one of the men shooting Moni. Moni told her colleague that the men wanted to rob her before she collapsed. She died in hospital.
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011; Semanario Actualidad, blog, 10.3.2011
year: 2011

Name: Poh Hiao Peng/ Pondan Peng
Age: 53
Profession: not reported
Date: 15/02/11
sort by this date: 15/02/11
Month: February, 2011
Location data: Love Lane, Georgetown, Malaysia
Place: Georgetown
Region: Asia
Country: Malaysia
Location: street
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim was beaten to death with a hammer by a motorcyclist in the afternoon. The case has been classified as murder.
Sources: TvT project: The Star, 15.02.2011
year: 2011

Name: Mireya (Ramiro Solano Jimenez)
Age: 19
Profession: not reported
Date: 17/02/11
sort by this date: 17/02/11
Month: February, 2011
Location data: 24 de Diciembre, Panama City Panama
Place: 24 de Diciembre, Panama City
Region: Central and South America
Country: Panama
Location: street (hotel)
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: La Mireya was stabbed to death in the early morning by a 22 year-old men who had been robbed previously on his way home from a bar and was reported to have wanted to take revenge on someone, killing Mireya, who was not involved in the robbery.
Sources: TvT project: Dia a Dia, online portal, 18.2.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: 29
Profession: not reported
Date: 17/02/11
sort by this date: 17/02/11
Month: February, 2011
Location data: Mielenko Drawskie Poland
Place: Mielenko Drawskie
Region: Europe
Country: Poland
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim and the murderer were reported to had been exchanging sms and mms for six years before they met. When the younger person discovered the 29 year-old was a 'man' he committed murder.
Sources: TvT questionnaire research / Trans-Fuzja Foundation Poland
year: 2011

Name: Tyra (Anthony) Trent
Age: 25
Profession: sex worker
Date: 19/02/11
sort by this date: 19/02/11
Month: February, 2011
Location data: Baltimore, Virginia Avenue USA
Place: Baltimore, Virginia Avenue
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: vacant city-owned home
Cause: asphyxiation
Remarks: Tyra Trent was a sex worker. Her body was found in a vacant city-owned home. Photographs published after her death suggest that the victim was a person of color.
Sources: TvT project: Baltimore Sun, 04.03.2011
year: 2011

Name: Aline (Rugian Oneil de Carlos)
Age: 20
Profession: sex worker
Date: 20/02/11
sort by this date: 20/02/11
Month: February, 2011
Location data: Rua Francisco Pezzi, Caxias do Sul, RS Brazil
Place: Rua Francisco Pezzi, Caxias do Sul, RS
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: strangled
Remarks: Aline had moved to Caxias do Sul from the state of Paraná. Shortly before her dead body was found on the street, she had celebrated her birthday, and afterwards had left with a colleague to do sex work.
Sources: TvT project: Pioneiro, online journal, 21.02.2011
year: 2011

Name: (Víctor Jose) Cruz Escorcia
Age: 31
Profession: sex worker
Date: 22/02/11
sort by this date: 22/02/11
Month: February, 2011
Location data: Quetzaltenango Guatemala
Place: Quetzaltenango
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker. The perpetrators shot her seven times and fled. As she had received death threats three days before, the police speculate it might have been a crime of vengeance.
Sources: TvT project: El Quetzalteco, 24.2.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: 55
Profession: not reported
Date: 22/02/11
sort by this date: 22/02/11
Month: February, 2011
Location data: Sinaloa Mexico
Place: Sinaloa
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: near creek
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The victim was about 55 years old. The body was found in a state of decomposition in a creek. It is estimated that the body had been in the water for about three months.
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011; RioDoce, online portal, 22.2.2011
year: 2011

Name: Jessica (Sergio Viana)
Age: 40
Profession: owner of boarding house for travestis
Date: 24/02/11
sort by this date: 24/02/11
Month: February, 2011
Location data: Avenida Lucas Nogueira Garcez, Sao Bernardo do Campo, SP Brazil
Place: Avenida Lucas Nogueira Garcez, Sao Bernardo do Campo, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Jessica was found dead at 10:15 pm in her car. Her body had two shots, one in the head and one in the neck. Nothing was stolen. A relative told the authorities that Jessica had lived openly as travesti since she was 22 and was much liked in the area.
Sources: TvT project: Diario do ABC, online journal, 25.2.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: February, 2011
sort by this date: 28/02/11
Month: February, 2011
Location data: Santa Barbara, Pangasinan Philippines
Place: Santa Barbara, Pangasinan
Region: Asia
Country: Philippines
Location: street
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was found dead along the road of Brgy Gueguesangen, Santa Barbara town with a wound on the forehead and a stab wound in the armpit and with signs of torture through strangulation.
Sources: TvT partner organization: STRAP
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: February, 2011
sort by this date: 28/02/11
Month: February, 2011
Location data: Baguio Philippines
Place: Baguio
Region: Asia
Country: Philippines
Location: street
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was found dead on a road in Baguio, stabbed at the back and head and with signs of torture.
Sources: TvT partner organization: STRAP
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: February, 2011
sort by this date: 28/02/11
Month: February, 2011
Location data: Malasiqui, Pangasinan Philippines
Place: Malasiqui, Pangasinan
Region: Asia
Country: Philippines
Location: street
Cause: torture
Remarks: The victim was found dead along the road of Brgy Asin East of Malasiqui town with signs of torture.
Sources: TvT partner organization: STRAP
year: 2011

Name: Priscila Loura (Gustavo Brandao Aguilar)
Age: 22
Profession: sex worker
Date: 02/03/11
sort by this date: 02/03/11
Month: March, 2011
Location data: Rua Piauí, Belo Horizonte, MG Brazil
Place: Rua Piauí, Belo Horizonte, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Priscila was shot nine times by two young men. She was a sex worker, working in the area. The police suspect 24 year-old Fernando Túlio Miranda Lage (Pimpolho), a drug boss, and a 17 year-old adolescent to have committed the crime. A third men might have been involved as well. Security cameras filmed the killing, which occurred around 3:30 a.m. in September 2010, the travesti sex worker (Ademir) do Nascimento Silva was shot in the same area. The day after the murder of Priscila, a further travesti sex worker, Mel (Jorge da Conceição de Lima), 36, was shot in the same area of Belo Horizonte, but survived the attack. Pimpolho was arrested on 2 April 2011.
Sources: TvT project: Super Noticia, online portal, 3.3.2011, 4.3.2011, Noticias Terra, 4.4.2011
year: 2011

Name: Val (Valdecir) das Graças Souza
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 06/03/11
sort by this date: 06/03/11
Month: March, 2011
Location data: Morumbi, SP Brazil
Place: Morumbi, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Val was a sex worker. She was killed in the early morning with four gunshots shortly after she was seen leaving with a client on a motorbike.
Sources: TvT project: Radio Cultura Foz, online portal, 6.03.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 07/03/11
sort by this date: 07/03/11
Month: March, 2011
Location data: Charallave, Miranda Venezuela
Place: Charallave, Miranda
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location: car
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was found on the highway Charallave-Ocumare. The body showed wounds of stabs and a gun shot. The police suspect that the victim was killed inside a car and then dragged to a slope.
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011; El Aragueno, online portal, 8.3.2011
year: 2011

Name: (Marcal) Camero Tye
Age: 25
Profession: not reported
Date: 08/03/11
sort by this date: 08/03/11
Month: March, 2011
Location data: Forrest City, Arkansas USA
Place: Forrest City, Arkansas
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: highway
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: CBS News, 09.03.2011
year: 2011

Name: Andrea
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 08/03/11
sort by this date: 08/03/11
Month: March, 2011
Location data: Medellin Colombia
Place: Medellin
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location: ravine
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Andrea fell into a ravine, and public authorities impeded her rescue by community members. As a result, she was washed away by the current. According to the human rights organization Personeria de Medellin it was a murder.
Sources: TvT project: Personeria de Medellin, Boletin de Prensa No. 159, 21.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 3/8/2011
sort by this date: 3/8/2011
Month: March, 2011
Location data: via di Porta Medaglia, Rome, Italy
Place: Rome
Region: Europe
Country: Italy
Location: not reported
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Roma Daily News, 14.03.2011
year: 2011

Name: Casandra (Samuel Oliva Bautista)
Age: not reported
Profession: waitress
Date: 08/03/11
sort by this date: 08/03/11
Month: March, 2011
Location data: Cunduacan, Tabasco Mexico
Place: Cunduacan, Tabasco
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: street
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Casandra worked at a bar. She was beaten to death with a hard object after she had been seen leaving the bar. Her body was found near a streat in Cunduacan. Her family suspect the crime was committed by Casandra's partner, who had severly injured her in January 2011.
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011; Tabasco Hoy, online portal, 9.3.2011
year: 2011

Name: Shakira (Faizal Harahap)
Age: Not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 10/03/11
sort by this date: 10/03/11
Month: March, 2011
Location data: Taman Lawang, Jakarta Indonesia
Place: Taman Lawang, Jakarta
Region: Asia
Country: Indonesia
Location: park
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim and two other transgender women were shot by two unidentified assailants in a red light district who fired shots at agroup of transgender people. The other two transgender women survived.
Sources: TvT project: Jakarta Post, 10.03.2011 & 17.04.2011
year: 2011

Name: Tininha (Roncon)
Age: 27
Profession: not reported
Date: 11/03/11
sort by this date: 11/03/11
Month: March, 2011
Location data: Atibaia, SP Brazil
Place: Atibaia, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: own apartment
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Tininha was reportedly in the company of a lover, the travesti Marcia on the day she was killed. As nothing was stolen, the police discarded robbery as the motif of the crime.
Sources: TvT project: O Atibaiense, 16.03.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 11/03/11
sort by this date: 11/03/11
Month: March, 2011
Location data: Rua Buenos Aires, Sumaré, SP Brazil
Place: Rua Buenos Aires, Sumaré, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was shot four times by an unknown person on a motorbike.
Sources: TvT project: O Liberal, online portal, 12.03.2011
year: 2011

Name: La Jenny (Michel Ruiz Lopez)
Age: 24
Profession: not reported
Date: 12/03/11
sort by this date: 12/03/11
Month: March, 2011
Location data: Chiabal, Cancun Mexico
Place: Chiabal, Cancun
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: own apartment
Cause: strangled
Remarks: La Jenny was found dead on the night of the 12th in her own apartment. She was strangled with a fabric belt. The police suspected that La Jennys partner, another travesti or her partner could have committed the crime, however without any substantive indications.
Sources: TvT project: Diario de Quintana Roo, 16.3.2011
year: 2011

Name: R. Suresh
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: 13/03/11
sort by this date: 13/03/11
Month: March, 2011
Location data: Angala Parameswari Amman Temple, Chennai, Tamil Nadu India
Place: Angala Parameswari Amman Temple, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Region: Asia
Country: India
Location: temple area
Cause: stoned
Remarks: The victim was killed by a man, she met at a temple festival and with whom she went to an isolated place.
Sources: TvT project: The Hindu, 19.03.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 17/03/11
sort by this date: 17/03/11
Month: March, 2011
Location data: Ipojuca, PE Brazil
Place: Ipojuca, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim was found near a bus station. According to witnesses, the victim was asked to come to that place and then clubbed to death.
Sources: TvT project: JC Online 17.03.2009
year: 2011

Name: Andrea
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 17/03/11
sort by this date: 17/03/11
Month: March, 2011
Location data: Valle del Cauca Colombia
Place: Valle del Cauca
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location: street
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Andrea was a sex worker and killed by a passer-by.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Observatorio Ciudadano Trans
year: 2011

Name: (Javier Ortega Rodriguez)
Age: 35
Profession: stylist
Date: 18/03/11
sort by this date: 18/03/11
Month: March, 2011
Location data: Salamanca, Guanajuato Mexico
Place: Salamanca, Guanajuato
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: own apartment
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The vicitm was a well-known stylist. Relatives had found the body after they had forcefully entered the victim's apartment, who had not responded. The police assume it was a robbery.
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011; A.M., online portal, 19.3.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 18/03/11
sort by this date: 18/03/11
Month: March, 2011
Location data: Sumaré, SP Brazil
Place: Sumaré, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was shot four times in the head and back during daytime. According to witnesses, a man fired shots from a motorbike and fled the scene.
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011; Universogay, online portal, 18.3.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 19/03/11
sort by this date: 19/03/11
Month: March, 2011
Location data: Calle Libertad, Chihuahua Mexico
Place: Calle Libertad, Chihuahua
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was shot to death point-blank along with a man.
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011; El Mexicano, online portal, 19.3.2011
year: 2011

Name: (Osimar Sebastião de Souza Júnior)
Age: 23
Profession: not reported
Date: 21/03/11
sort by this date: 21/03/11
Month: March, 2011
Location data: Passos, MG Brazil
Place: Passos, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street (hospital)
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim's body was found by firemen on a street in the neighbourhood of Novo Horizonte. The victim died when entering into hospital.
Sources: TvT project: Serra da Aguas, online portal, 23.03.2011
year: 2011

Name: Ece Serif Remzi Pulat
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: 21/03/11
sort by this date: 21/03/11
Month: March, 2011
Location data: Aliaga, Izmir Turkey
Place: Aliaga, Izmir
Region: Europe
Country: Turkey
Location: field
Cause: dismembered
Remarks: The victim was found dead on a street with her legs and head cut off from her body.
Sources: TvT partner organisation: Pembe Hayat (Pink Life), Ankara; TvT project: Toplis, online portal, 28.03.2011
year: 2011

Name: (Marcos Jose Pereira da Silva)
Age: 32
Profession: sex worker
Date: 22/03/11
sort by this date: 22/03/11
Month: March, 2011
Location data: Ibura, Recife, PE Brazil
Place: Ibura, Recife, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: own apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker. She was tortured, together with her partner Jaime, for around one hour inside their own apartment. They were subsequently dragged outside and shot several times. Jaime managed to escape and survived with two shots in the arm. According to the victim's mother, who lives nearby, six men and two women had entered their apartment after breaking the door.
Sources: TvT project: Folha de Pernambuco, online portal, March 2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 23/03/11
sort by this date: 23/03/11
Month: March, 2011
Location data: Tepoztlán, Morelos Mexico
Place: Tepoztlán, Morelos
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim's body was found in a deserted area. The death resulted from severe blows on the head with a hard object.
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011; Diario de Morelos, online journal, 24.3.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: 19
Profession: not reported
Date: 24/03/11
sort by this date: 24/03/11
Month: March, 2011
Location data: Bello, Medellin Colombia
Place: Bello, Medellin
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The victim's body was found in the sector of Tubo in Bello Oriente. The victim was about 17 to 20 years old.
Sources: TvT project: Personeria de Medellin, Boletin de Prensa No. 159, 21.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: Jessica
Age: 21
Profession: sex worker
Date: 27/03/11
sort by this date: 27/03/11
Month: March, 2011
Location data: Santa Fe, Bogota Colombia
Place: Santa Fe, Bogota
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location: street (hospital)
Cause: stabbed/denial of medical care
Remarks: Jessica was a sex worker. According to colleagues, she was on the street with other sex workers when a person came near and called her. As Jessica went over, the person stabbed her with a knife three times and fled. Her colleagues brought her to hospital, where she reportedly was not provided immediate treatment and died.
Sources: TvT project: La Voz, online journal, 27.3.2011
year: 2011

Name: Leidy Garcia
Age: 36
Profession: not reported
Date: 27/03/11
sort by this date: 27/03/11
Month: March, 2011
Location data: Bogota, Colombia
Place: Bogota
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The victim was of Ecuadorian descent.
Sources: TvT project: El Tiempo 30.03.2011
year: 2011

Name: Brenda Vanessa Viveros Peralta
Age: not reported
Profession: stylist
Date: 29/03/11
sort by this date: 29/03/11
Month: March, 2011
Location data: Valle del Cauca Colombia
Place: Valle del Cauca
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Brenda was stylist.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Observatorio Ciudadano Trans
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: March, 2011
sort by this date: 31/03/11
Month: March, 2011
Location data: Manaus, AM Brazil
Place: Manaus, AM
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: D24AM, online portal/Movimento de Gays, Lésbicas, Bissexuais, Travestis e Transexuais (GLBTT) do Amazonas, 10.4.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: March, 2011
sort by this date: 31/03/11
Month: March, 2011
Location data: Anama, AM Brazil
Place: Anama, AM
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: D24AM, online portal/Movimento de Gays, Lésbicas, Bissexuais, Travestis e Transexuais (GLBTT) do Amazonas, 10.4.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: March, 2011
sort by this date: 31/03/11
Month: March, 2011
Location data: Anori, AM Brazil
Place: Anori, AM
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: D24AM, online portal/Movimento de Gays, Lésbicas, Bissexuais, Travestis e Transexuais (GLBTT) do Amazonas, 10.4.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 02/04/11
sort by this date: 02/04/11
Month: April, 2011
Location data: Travessa Herdy, Cubango, Niterói Brazil
Place: Travessa Herdy, Cubango, Niterói
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was shot around ten times.
Sources: TvT project: O Fluminense, online journal, 2.04.2011
year: 2011

Name: Zharick (Jeison Andres Molano)
Age: 18
Profession: owner of beauty salon
Date: 06/04/11
sort by this date: 06/04/11
Month: April, 2011
Location data: Bogota Colombia
Place: Bogota
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location: own apartment
Cause: strangled
Remarks: Zharick was killed in her own apartment around 10.30 am. A man from the same building, with whom Zharick had had a relationship, had come by in the early in a drunken state and after a discussion strangled Zharick with a DVD cable. It is assumed that the murder might be related to robbery, as Zharick is reported to have told her mother two days earlier that she withdrew three million pesos for a nose operation, which was not found after the crime along with some valuable objects.
Sources: TvT project: Qhubo Ibague, blog, 11.4.2011
year: 2011

Name: Grace (Eroni) da Silva
Age: 36
Profession: not reported
Date: 06/04/11
sort by this date: 06/04/11
Month: April, 2011
Location data: Avenida Valdomiro Cândido dos Reis, Capão da Canoa, RS Brazil
Place: Avenida Valdomiro Cândido dos Reis, Capão da Canoa, RS
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Grace was shot to death at around 5 pm with six gun shots. According to witnesses, a man approached Grace and fired the shots and left as if nothing had happened.
Sources: TvT project: Literal em Movimento, online portal, 7.04.2011
year: 2011

Name: Paulinha (Paulo) César de Oliveira
Age: 31
Profession: domestic worker
Date: 09/04/11
sort by this date: 09/04/11
Month: April, 2011
Location data: Campos Gerais, MG Brazil
Place: Campos Gerais, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Paulihna was murdered in a brutal way with 31 knife stabs in different body parts. She was reportedly a well-known charwoman who worked for several established families in the town.
Sources: TvT project: MGA, online portal, 13.04.2011
year: 2011

Name: Rafaela Thompson (Heliu Pereira Dantas)
Age: 28
Profession: not reported
Date: 11/04/11
sort by this date: 11/04/11
Month: April, 2011
Location data: Av. Antonio Quintino Gomes, Vilhena, RO Brazil
Place: Av. Antonio Quintino Gomes, Vilhena, RO
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: strangled
Remarks: Rafaela's body was found partly naked on 11 April and seems to have been strangled with a piece of cloth. According to the police, Rafaela had gone out with a man at around 11:30 pm on the 10th in order to by a bottle of liquor. She had been known since she appeared in the film "O que há por tras?" ("What's behind?") produced in 2009 by local students of social communication.
Sources: TvT project: Rondonia Vip, online portal, 11.4.2011, Folha de Vilhena, 11.4.2011
year: 2011

Name: Beyonce (Andre Luis) Nascimento dos Santos
Age: 30
Profession: sex worker
Date: 14/04/11
sort by this date: 14/04/11
Month: April, 2011
Location data: Avenida Dorival Caymmi, Itapua, Salvador da Bahia, BA Brazil
Place: Avenida Dorival Caymmi, Itapua, Salvador da Bahia, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street (emergency station)
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was shot in the thigh at around 5 am by two men in a passing car. The victim was taken to an emergency station, but the bullet hit a femoral vein causing death.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2011); Correio 24 Horas, online portal, 14.4.2011
year: 2011

Name: Inete (Daniel Oliveira Felipe)
Age: 24
Profession: sex worker
Date: 15/04/11
sort by this date: 15/04/11
Month: April, 2011
Location data: Rua Pres. Joao Pessoa, Campina Grande, PB Brazil
Place: Rua Pres. Joao Pessoa, Campina Grande, PB
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Inete was a sex worker. She was stabbed around 30 times and died on the street. A CCTV camera recorded how four men came out of a car and then chased and attacked Inete. The police arrested a 42 year-old and a 25 year-old man and a 17 year-old adolescent and are looking a further man. The adolescent confessed the crime. The police assume that vengance was the motive, based on the perpetrators' statement.
Sources: TvT project: Gay 1 online portal, 15.4.2011, UOL online portal, 18.4.2011; PB Agora online portal, 29.4.2011
year: 2011

Name: (Armando Cabrera Martinez)
Age: 37
Profession: not reported
Date: 15/04/11
sort by this date: 15/04/11
Month: April, 2011
Location data: San Martin Texmelucan de Labastida, Puebla Mexico
Place: San Martin Texmelucan de Labastida, Puebla
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim's body was found in a river in very dark water with a big stone on the head. The victim had been stabbed in the neck and the face was smashed with a very heavy stone. The medical experts also found injuries that suggest that the victim was tortured and violated by homophobic persons before being killed.
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011; El Despertar, online portal, 19.4.2011
year: 2011

Name: Waseem
Age: 28
Profession: not reported
Date: 16/04/11
sort by this date: 16/04/11
Month: April, 2011
Location data: Hyderabad, Pakistan
Place: Hyderabad
Region: Asia
Country: Pakistan
Location:
Cause: strangled
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Dawn News, 18.04.2011
year: 2011

Name: Kali
Age: 32
Profession: not reported
Date: 16/04/11
sort by this date: 16/04/11
Month: April, 2011
Location data: Hyderabad, Pakistan
Place: Hyderabad
Region: Asia
Country: Pakistan
Location:
Cause: throat-cut
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Dawn News, 18.04.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: 40
Profession: not reported
Date: 16/04/11
sort by this date: 16/04/11
Month: April, 2011
Location data: Nonghan, Thailand
Place: Nonghan
Region: Asia
Country: Thailand
Location: street
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim was described as a ladyboy who was attacked and chased by four teenagers (ages16, 16, 18, 19), who beat her with a beer bottle, a hammer, and bamboo sticks, then poured gas on her.
Sources: TvT project: Udon Map 17.04.2011
year: 2011

Name: Cristal Sodi (David Reyes)
Age: 18
Profession: stylist
Date: 18/04/11
sort by this date: 18/04/11
Month: April, 2011
Location data: Bajos de Haina Dominican Republic
Place: Bajos de Haina
Region: Central and South America
Country: Dominican Republic
Location: own apartment
Cause: burned
Remarks: Cristals body was found burnt in her own apartment. Relatives believe that Cristal was murdered.
Sources: TvT project: Telenoticias/Youtube, 18.4.2011; TRANSSA website (trans organization) 20.4.2011
year: 2011

Name: Narin B.
Age: 36
Profession: sex worker
Date: 19/04/11
sort by this date: 19/04/11
Month: April, 2011
Location data: Karabaglar, Izmir Turkey
Place: Karabaglar, Izmir
Region: Europe
Country: Turkey
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker. She was reportedly attacked by two men who did not want any sex workers in their area. She was taken to hospital shortly after the gunshot, but died before reaching the hospital. Other transwomen, M. K., 26, and Y. E.,36, were injured and taken to hospital. The attackers were arrested by the police.
Sources: TvT partner organisation: Pembe Hayat (Pink Life), Ankara; TvT project: Haber 3, online portal, 19.04.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 19/04/11
sort by this date: 19/04/11
Month: April, 2011
Location data: Chotepe Honduras
Place: Chotepe
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim's body was found on 23 April 2011 in a state of decay wrapped in a bag and with the little finger of the left hand cut off. Forensic authorities estimate the killing to have happened on 19 April. The body was found in Chotepe, which is near the city of San Pedro Sula, where on 17 January 2011 the travesti Fergie was killed.
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011; La Tribuna online portal, 23.4.2011
year: 2011

Name: Ale (Gustavo Yagualca)
Age: 24
Profession: sex worker
Date: 27/04/11
sort by this date: 27/04/11
Month: April, 2011
Location data: Buenos Aires Argentina
Place: Buenos Aires
Region: Central and South America
Country: Argentina
Location: park
Cause: strangled
Remarks: Ale was a sex worker and found dead hung on a tree on the San Bernardo hill. Although the police investigated the case as a possible homicide, there are indications that it was a murder and other travestis and collegues of Ale believe that Ale was killed.
Sources: TvT project: El Tribuno, online portal, 28.4.2011
year: 2011

Name: Bibi (Mauricio)
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 27/04/11
sort by this date: 27/04/11
Month: April, 2011
Location data: Sao Pedro, Ji-Parana, RO Brazil
Place: Sao Pedro, Ji-Parana, RO
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: apartment
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Bibi was killed in around 3:30 am in an apartment, but no details are reported as to how she got there or whose apartment it was. According to witnesses, Bibi, who was a sex worker, left with a trucker and did not return to the place near a petrol station where she used to stand.
Sources: TvT project: Rondonia ao Vivo, online portal, 27.4.2011
year: 2011

Name: Kimberly Rubí Bianconi López
Age: 17
Profession: employee
Date: 30/04/11
sort by this date: 30/04/11
Month: April, 2011
Location data: Avenida Las Acacias, Caracas Venezuela
Place: Avenida Las Acacias, Caracas
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location: street
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Kimberly had moved to Caracas a year before she was killed, where she worked first as a hairdresser and then in a perfumery. She was killed in the early morning of 30 April together with a friend of hers, another travesti called La Dominicana. Both had been seen entering a blue Chevrolet Aveo and being pushed out half an hour later. A men was also seen leaving the car, who the police belief to be the perpetrator.
Sources: TvT project: Diario Digital Transexual, online portal, 9.5.2011, El Nacional, online journal, 19.11.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 30/04/11
sort by this date: 30/04/11
Month: April, 2011
Location data: La Laja, Acapulco Mexico
Place: La Laja, Acapulco
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The victim was found stuffed into the trunk of an automobile.
Sources: TvT project: Real Acapulco News, 01.05.2011
year: 2011

Name: La Domenicana
Age: not reported
Profession: employee
Date: 30/04/11
sort by this date: 30/04/11
Month: April, 2011
Location data: Avenida Las Acacias, Caracas Venezuela
Place: Avenida Las Acacias, Caracas
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location: street
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: La Domenicana worked in a perfumery. She was killed in the early morning of 30 April together with a friend of hers, another travesti called Kimberly. Both had been seen entering a blue Chevrolet Aveo and being pushed out half an hour later. A men was also seen leaving the car, who the police belief to be the perpetrator.
Sources: TvT project: Diario Digital Transexual, online portal, 9.5.2011, El Nacional, online journal, 19.11.2011
year: 2011

Name: Preta Gil (Andrey) Barbosa
Age: 15
Profession: not reported
Date: 01/05/11
sort by this date: 01/05/11
Month: May, 2011
Location data: Ambai, Nova Iguacu, RJ Brazil
Place: Ambai, Nova Iguacu, RJ
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: beaten, hanged
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Blog do Pablo, blog, 23.06.2011; Grupo 28 de Junho, LGBT group/Eugenhio 28, blog, 20.06.2011
year: 2011

Name: Barbara (Abraham Lopez Lezama)
Age: 25
Profession: sex worker
Date: 01/05/11
sort by this date: 01/05/11
Month: May, 2011
Location data: San Andres Cholula, Puebla Mexico
Place: San Andres Cholula, Puebla
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: own apartment
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker and was killed in her own apartment by a client who beat her with a shoe, strangled her and gave her a deadly blow on the head. She was found dead by a friend, also a travesti, who informed the authorities. The perpetrator fled the apartment but has been identified by the police.
Sources: TvT project: E-consulta, online portal/Foto Agencia Enfoque, 1.5.2011, En Interiores, online portal, 1.5.2011; TvT partner organisation: TVMex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011
year: 2011

Name: (Jean Carlos Pereira da Silva)
Age: 39
Profession: not reported
Date: 01/05/11
sort by this date: 01/05/11
Month: May, 2011
Location data: Tapera de Cima, CE Brazil
Place: Tapera de Cima, CE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was stabbed to death in the back with a knife in front of a bar. According to the police various persons had been in the bar drinking and after the victim stole 10 reais from a man there was a short discussion. After several hours, the victim left towards home and José Ronaldo de Almeida, 32, who had been waiting in a thicket reportedly committed the crime. The perpetrator fled the scene.
Sources: TvT project: CNews, online portal, 2.5.2011
year: 2011

Name: Carlos Canlas
Age: 29
Profession: not reported
Date: 02/05/11
sort by this date: 02/05/11
Month: May, 2011
Location data: Barangay San Isidro, General Santos City, Mindanao, Philippines
Place: General Santos City
Region: Asia
Country: Philippines
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was found with her face mutulated with stabbing.
Sources: The Philippine LGBT Hate Crime Watch
year: 2011

Name: Naomi (Leonel Carmona Adames)
Age: 27
Profession: sex worker
Date: 05/05/11
sort by this date: 05/05/11
Month: May, 2011
Location data: El Batey, Sosua, Puerto Plata Dominican Republic
Place: El Batey, Sosua, Puerto Plata
Region: Central and South America
Country: Dominican Republic
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Naomis body was found in a pool of blood, a 5 gallon gas container standing next to her head.
Sources: TvT project: Jancavacs, online portal, 6.5.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 11/05/11
sort by this date: 11/05/11
Month: May, 2011
Location data: Rua Servidão Dois, Contagem, MG Brazil
Place: Rua Servidão Dois, Contagem, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The vicitm's body was found with gunshots in the head and leg on a street. It is assumed that the killing happened in a different location.
Sources: TvT project: Hoje em Dia, online portal, 11.05.2011
year: 2011

Name: (Felipe Roberto) de Freitas Silva
Age: 18
Profession: not reported
Date: 12/05/11
sort by this date: 12/05/11
Month: May, 2011
Location data: Lagoa Santa, MG Brazil
Place: Lagoa Santa, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: own apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks: According to the police, the victim was at home when two men came in order to kill the victim. The victim, according to the report, went to get a two year-old child so that the men would not shoot, but they shot nonetheless, injuring the child as well as her grandmother who tried to protect the child, and killing the victim. Due to information given by the victim's father and further reports, the police suspect a relation to drug trafficking.
Sources: TvT project: Record Minas, online portal, 12.05.2011
year: 2011

Name: Luisa Nicol (Luis Alberto) Valera
Age: 18
Profession: sex worker
Date: 13/05/11
sort by this date: 13/05/11
Month: May, 2011
Location data: Avenida Guaicaipuro, El Rosal, Venezuela
Place: El Rosal
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location: hotel
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Luisa's alleged murderers were arrested. They belong to a gang that exploits trans and gay sex workers.
Sources: TvT project: Venezuela Diversa, 14.05.2011
year: 2011

Name: Jenny
Age: not reported
Profession: hairdresser
Date: 13/05/11
sort by this date: 13/05/11
Month: May, 2011
Location data: Occidental Mindoro, Southern Luzon, Philippines
Place: Occidental Mindoro
Region: Asia
Country: Philippines
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: The Philippine LGBT Hate Crime Watch
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 18/05/11
sort by this date: 18/05/11
Month: May, 2011
Location data: Engenheiro Domingos Ferreira, Recife, PE Brazil
Place: Engenheiro Domingos Ferreira, Recife, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: beaten
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Folha de Pernambuco, online portal, 18.05.11
year: 2011

Name: Paloma
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 21/05/11
sort by this date: 21/05/11
Month: May, 2011
Location data: Rua Landulfo Alves, Itaguaí, RJ Brazil
Place: Rua Landulfo Alves, Itaguaí, RJ
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: construction site
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Paloma was a young travesti. She was clubbed to death in the bathroom of a construction site.
Sources: TvT project: Journal Atual, online portal, 5.08.2011
year: 2011

Name: Monica (Javier Ernesto) Elizondo
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 21/05/11
sort by this date: 21/05/11
Month: May, 2011
Location data: Mejicanos, San Salvador El Salvador
Place: Mejicanos, San Salvador
Region: Central and South America
Country: El Salvador
Location: bus
Cause: shot
Remarks: Monica was shot while riding on a public bus.
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011; Prensa Libre, online portal, 24.5.2011
year: 2011

Name: (Milda Rusel Aguilar Donis)
Age: 32
Profession: not reported
Date: 24/05/11
sort by this date: 24/05/11
Month: May, 2011
Location data: Santa Rosa de Lima, Santa Rosa Guatemala
Place: Santa Rosa de Lima, Santa Rosa
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was shot as several persons attacked a group standing in front of a bar. A woman, the bar owner, was also killed. Another man was injured.
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011; La Pagina online portal, 21.5.2011
year: 2011

Name: Alison Pereira Cabral dos Anjos (Camile)
Age: 23
Profession: sex worker
Date: 26/05/11
sort by this date: 26/05/11
Month: May, 2011
Location data: Rua Doutor Edgard Teotônio Santana, Sao Paulo, SP Brazil
Place: Rua Doutor Edgard Teotônio Santana, Sao Paulo, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Alison was shot by a client at around 8.30 pm. She reportedly owed him 10 reais as she did not have change when he paid. The man came back with a gun and shot her at least seven times. A witness reported the license plate of the motorcycle on which the perpetrator fled.
Sources: TvT project: estadao/Sao Paulo, online portal, 27.5.2011
year: 2011

Name: Alicinha (Alisson Otavio) da Cruz
Age: 20
Profession: not reported
Date: 28/05/11
sort by this date: 28/05/11
Month: May, 2011
Location data: Tres Lagoas, Cuiaba, MT Brazil
Place: Tres Lagoas, Cuiaba, MT
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: strangled
Remarks: Alicinha's body was found in a stream in a state of decay with marks of strangling on the neck in the stream Gumita. Alicinha's body had additionally been dragged by a car and then been thrown into a sewer. The police were investigating for homophobia and drug-related vengeance. They relate the case to the murder of Mailda dos Santos, which happened on 8 June 2011 in the same area of Cuiaba.
Sources: TvT project: Gay 1 online portal, 30.5.11, 14.6.2011.
year: 2011

Name: (Roberto Confessor da Silva)
Age: 28
Profession: not reported
Date: 29/05/11
sort by this date: 29/05/11
Month: May, 2011
Location data: Mangabeira, João Pessoa, PB Brazil
Place: Mangabeira, João Pessoa, PB
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: own apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was killed with two gunshots in the early morning when returning home. According to locals, the alleged perpetrator had a sexual relationship with the victim.
Sources: TvT project: Paraiba News, online portal, 18.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: Laísa (Genilton) Pereira de Lima
Age: 22
Profession: sex worker
Date: May, 2011
sort by this date: 31/05/11
Month: May, 2011
Location data: Sao Paulo, SP Brazil
Place: Sao Paulo, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim had been missing since 24 April 2012. On 29 May, family members learned that she was dead.
Sources: TvT project: Jornal de Hoje, online portal, 23.05.2012
year: 2011

Name: Levinha
Age: 31
Profession: not reported
Date: 31/05/11
sort by this date: 31/05/11
Month: May, 2011
Location data: Salvador, BA Brazil
Place: Salvador, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: not reported
Remarks: According to Grupo Gay da Bahia, the murder was based on 'homophobia'.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2011)
year: 2011

Name: Comadre Zezinha (José Sebastiao) Ferreira da Silva
Age: 32
Profession: not reported
Date: May, 2011
sort by this date: 31/05/11
Month: May, 2011
Location data: Lajedo, PE Brazil
Place: Lajedo, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: wasteland
Cause: stoned, beaten
Remarks: The body of the victim, who had been missing since 7 May 2012, was found on 11 May. Three young men were arrested, one of whom confessed the crime, stating the reason for the killing was that the victim owed him money for sexual services.
Sources: TvT project: Jornal de Toritama, 11.05.2012
year: 2011

Name: (Alexandre dos Anjos)
Age: 36
Profession: cook
Date: 31/05/11
sort by this date: 31/05/11
Month: May, 2011
Location data: Itamaraju, BA Brazil
Place: Itamaraju, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim's body was found naked with a piece of wood next to it that had been used to kill the victim.
Sources: TvT project: Jorge Quixabeira, online portal, 31.05.2011
year: 2011

Name: Deniz Cigli
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: May, 2011
sort by this date: 31/05/11
Month: May, 2011
Location data: Antalya, Turkey
Place: Antalya
Region: Europe
Country: Turkey
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization Pembe Hayat
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 01/06/11
sort by this date: 01/06/11
Month: June, 2011
Location data: Goiandia, GO Brazil
Place: Goiandia, GO
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: decapitated
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2011)
year: 2011

Name: Matilde (Josimar)
Age: 25
Profession: not reported
Date: 02/06/11
sort by this date: 02/06/11
Month: June, 2011
Location data: Ampliación Las Bajadas, Veracruz Mexico
Place: Ampliación Las Bajadas, Veracruz
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: wasteland
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim was around 25 years old. The body was found on the morning of 2 June on a piece of wasteland.
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011; La Tarde, online portal, 2.6.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: 03/06/11
sort by this date: 03/06/11
Month: June, 2011
Location data: Poncitlan, Jalisco Mexico
Place: Poncitlan, Jalisco
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was around 30 years old and, according to witnesses, was shot by the driver of a black Ford Lobo, who after committing the killing fled the scene.
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011; Mileno, online portal, 3.6.2011
year: 2011

Name: Karlota (Carlos Alfredo Gomez Pena)
Age: 19
Profession: not reported
Date: 06/06/11
sort by this date: 06/06/11
Month: June, 2011
Location data: Condado, Santurce Puerto Rico
Place: Condado, Santurce
Region: Central and South America
Country: Puerto Rico
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Before Karlota was killed, two persons in an old car approached several trans women whether they had seen Karlota. One of the trans women reported that one of the individuals showed a firearm to the ones they asked. Nobody informed the police.
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011; El Nuevo Dia, online portal, 6.6.2011
year: 2011

Name: Mailda dos Santos (Maria do Bairro)
Age: 25
Profession: sex worker
Date: 08/06/11
sort by this date: 08/06/11
Month: June, 2011
Location data: Lagoa Encantada, Cuiaba, MT Brazil
Place: Lagoa Encantada, Cuiaba, MT
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: park
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Mailda's body was found by a student who called the police. The circumstances of the murder are reported to have been similar to the murder of Alicinha, which occurred on 28 May 2011 in the same area of Cuiaba.
Sources: TvT project: Gay 1 online portal, 9.6.11, 14.6.2011.
year: 2011

Name: Medipalli Prasad
Age: 30
Profession: beggar
Date: 09/06/11
sort by this date: 09/06/11
Month: June, 2011
Location data: Visakhapatnam, India
Place: Vusakhapatnam
Region: Asia
Country: India
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The victim was described as a hijra, who was found hands and legs tied to a boat at a beach. The two murderers confessed the crime. One of them declared, that the victim used to tell the locals that he was her husband.
Sources: TvT project: Bay News: 24.08.2011
year: 2011

Name: Carla (Juan Carlos) Tovar Cardenas
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: 12/06/11
sort by this date: 12/06/11
Month: June, 2011
Location data: Tala, Jalisco Mexico
Place: Tala, Jalisco
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Carla's body was found around a week after she disappeared. Her body showed marks of multiple stabs and severe beatings. Three adolescents of 14 and 16 years of age were arrested and faced charges.
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011; El Occidental, online portal, 12.6.2011
year: 2011

Name: (Nathan Eugene) Davis
Age: 44
Profession: sex worker
Date: 13/06/11
sort by this date: 13/06/11
Month: June, 2011
Location data: Northborough Drive, Houston, TX USA
Place: Northborough Drive, Houston, TX
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was shot in the head near an apartment block where the victim was reported to have worked as a sex worker. The body was found near an apartment complex dumpster. The police have released a sketch of the alleged perpetrator, who is assumed to be a man in his late 20s to early 30s. The victim was a person of color (based on photographs published after death).
Sources: TvT project: Houston Press, blog, 13.6.2011, 14,6.2011; Click 2 Houston, online portal, 13.6.2011
year: 2011

Name: Kenia (Lineker) Silva Nascimento
Age: 21
Profession: not reported
Date: 18/06/11
sort by this date: 18/06/11
Month: June, 2011
Location data: Av. Deodoro da Fonseca, Natal, RN, Brazil
Place: Av. Deodoro da Fonseca, Natal, RN
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The killing happened at around 8.30 pm. The victim was on the intersection of Avenida Deodoro da Fonseca and General Osorio in Natal as a car approached and one of three persons fired shots at the victim, who died on the location. One of the lines the police are investigating is homophobia.
Sources: TvT project: Tribuna do Norte, online journal, 21.6.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 19/06/11
sort by this date: 19/06/11
Month: June, 2011
Location data: Sabaneta, Maracaibo Venezuela
Place: Sabaneta, Maracaibo
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The police suspect that the perpetrators took the victim to the location of the killling, and when the victim resisted hit the victim to death with stones.
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011; Noticia Al Dia, online portal, 19.6.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 20/06/11
sort by this date: 20/06/11
Month: June, 2011
Location data: Kazan, Moscow Russia
Place: Kazan, Moscow
Region: Europe
Country: Russia
Location: railroad
Cause: throat-cut
Remarks: The victim's mutilated body was found on 24 June near Kazan railroad. The experts determined that the murder happened on the 20th or 21st. Presumably, the victim was stunned by two or three head punches, and then the killer cut the throat.
Sources: TvT project: LGBT Asylum News, blog, 27.06.2011
year: 2011

Name: Karla
Age: 25
Profession: not reported
Date: 27/06/11
sort by this date: 27/06/11
Month: June, 2011
Location data: Juarez, Nuevo Leon Mexico
Place: Juarez, Nuevo Leon
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Karla was severely beaten on the head.
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011
year: 2011

Name: "Nieves" Toledo
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 29/06/11
sort by this date: 29/06/11
Month: June, 2011
Location data: Caloocan, Philippines
Place: Caloocan
Region: Asia
Country: Philippines
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was described as a trans man.
Sources: TvT project: The Philippine LGBT Hate Crime Watch (PLHCW)
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: June, 2011
sort by this date: 30/06/11
Month: June, 2011
Location data: Natal, RN Brazil
Place: Natal, RN
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Tribuna do Norte, online journal, 21.06.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: June, 2011
sort by this date: 30/06/11
Month: June, 2011
Location data: Natal, RN Brazil
Place: Natal, RN
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Tribuna do Norte, online journal, 21.6.2011
year: 2011

Name: Casandra (Marco Fidel Luján) Hernández
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 30/06/11
sort by this date: 30/06/11
Month: June, 2011
Location data: Calarca, Quindio Colombia
Place: Calarca, Quindio
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: According to one hypothesis, Casandra was killed because she had witnessed another homicide.
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011; Cronica del Quindio, online portal, w/o date
year: 2011

Name: (Agnaldo) Araujo Lopes
Age: 27
Profession: not reported
Date: 06/07/11
sort by this date: 06/07/11
Month: July, 2011
Location data: Vilhena, RO Brazil
Place: Vilhena, RO
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: bridge
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim's body was found on a bridge with a gunshot in the head. The victim was from the city of Rio Branco/Acre but worked in Vilhena and will be buried locally.
Sources: TvT project: Rondonia Livre, online portal, 12.11.2011; Mortal e Curioso, online portal, 7.07.2011; Extra de Rondonia / Guarda Noturno CDD, blog, 8.7.2011
year: 2011

Name: Thalia
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 06/07/11
sort by this date: 06/07/11
Month: July, 2011
Location data: Chihuahua, Chihuahua Mexico
Place: Chihuahua, Chihuahua
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Numerous shots were fired from a passing car at Thalia and other trans women that were together with her.
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 12/07/11
sort by this date: 12/07/11
Month: July, 2011
Location data: Tegucigalpa Honduras
Place: Tegucigalpa
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011
year: 2011

Name: Cinthia (Roberto Marcelino) Gonzalez Garrido Rodriguez
Age: 46
Profession: sex worker
Date: 14/07/11
sort by this date: 14/07/11
Month: July, 2011
Location data: El Loa, Calama Chile
Place: El Loa, Calama
Region: Central and South America
Country: Chile
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Cinthia's body was found with a gash in the neck three days after she had disappeared in an space she rented in the city of El Loa. A young man was arrested and suspected the crime. He worked in for a contract firm and was reported to have a problem with drugs.
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011; En Sentido Contrario, online portal, 14.7.2011; Emol Chile, online portal, 14.7.2011
year: 2011

Name: Shayara (Johny) Soares Santana Pereira
Age: 22
Profession: sex worker, performer
Date: 16/07/11
sort by this date: 16/07/11
Month: July, 2011
Location data: Rua Nair Silva, Belford Roxo, RJ Brazil
Place: Rua Nair Silva, Belford Roxo, RJ
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Shayara was a sex worker and clubbed to death in the early morning. After her death, family members started a public campaign, since the police did not seem to be investigating the crime seriously.
Sources: TvT project: R7 Videos, online portal, 12.11.2011
year: 2011

Name: Val (Valter Felipe) de Souza
Age: 27
Profession: not reported
Date: 17/07/11
sort by this date: 17/07/11
Month: July, 2011
Location data: Ariquemes, RO Brazil
Place: Ariquemes, RO
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: bar
Cause: shot
Remarks: Val was at a bar dancing with friends in the afternoon when two men drove by on a motorbike and fired shots at them. Two persons got hit and injured and Val was shot to death. The police assume prejudice against LGBT people to be a possible reason for the crime.
Sources: TvT project: Folha de Rondonia, online portal, 21.07.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: 25
Profession: not reported
Date: 18/07/11
sort by this date: 18/07/11
Month: July, 2011
Location data: Zona 5, Guatemala City Guatemala
Place: Zona 5, Guatemala City
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location: hospital
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was approximately 25 years old and died in hospital from shots in the head, shoulder and hand. According to first-aiders, the victim did not live in the area and was shot point-blank by unknown persons who fled the scene.
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011; Prensa Libre, online portal, 18.7.2011
year: 2011

Name: Lashai Mclean
Age: 24
Profession: sex worker
Date: 20/07/11
sort by this date: 20/07/11
Month: July, 2011
Location data: 61st street Northeast Washington, USA
Place: Washington, USA
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Lashai was shot by two men at a sex worker's place. The victim was a person of color (based on photographs published after death).
Sources: TvT project: Washington Blade, 25.07.2011
year: 2011

Name: Samantha (Jesus Nazareth Rondon)
Age: 24
Profession: employee
Date: 22/07/11
sort by this date: 22/07/11
Month: July, 2011
Location data: Avenida Libertador, Los Jabillos, Caracas Venezuela
Place: Avenida Libertador, Los Jabillos, Caracas
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Samantha had moved to Caracas from Margarita several months ago and worked in the beauty industry. She had been with her friend Brenda on Avenida Libertador in the early morning. Brenda left to get some drinks, and when she returned, Samantha had disappeared. According to witnesses, a person in a car had come by and kidnapped Samantha. She was shot six times and stolen numerous belongings. Brenda reported that Samantha had been beaten before after leaving work because she was transgender.
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011; El Universal, online portal, 24.7.2011
year: 2011

Name: Nela (Manuel) de Jesus Erazo Ramírez
Age: 25
Profession: not reported
Date: 22/07/11
sort by this date: 22/07/11
Month: July, 2011
Location data: Villanueva, Tegucigalpa Honduras
Place: Villanueva, Tegucigalpa
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location: grassland
Cause: shot
Remarks: Nela was shot around 3 am near the place where she lived, on the way home from a party. She was a member of the local organisation Crisalidas-Trans Palada that had been founded several months earlier.
Sources: TvT project: La Prensa, online portal, 23.07.2011; La Tribuna / Puro Chuky, blog, w/d
year: 2011

Name: Didem
Age: 26
Profession: sex worker
Date: 31/07/11
sort by this date: 31/07/11
Month: July, 2011
Location data: Findikzade, Turkey
Place: Istanbul
Region: Europe
Country: Turkey
Location: own apartment
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The murderer was a 26 year-old man, who met with Didem on facebook and agreed to have sex by paying her. He was caught by the police and confessed: "I thought that she was a woman, but she was a trans person. After learning this, I killed her."
Sources: TvT partner organization Pembe Hayat
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: 64
Profession: not reported
Date: July, 2011
sort by this date: 31/07/11
Month: July, 2011
Location data: Cabrera d'Anoia, Spain
Place: Cabrera d'Anoia, Spain
Region: Europe
Country: Spain
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The victim was murdered by her husband, who pretended that she was alive, faking mobile phone calls and reporting her missing in February 2012.
Sources: TvT project: El Pais 13.06.2012
year: 2011

Name: Zabi
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: July, 2011
sort by this date: 31/07/11
Month: July, 2011
Location data: Kabul Afghanistan
Place: Kabul
Region: Asia
Country: Afghanistan
Location:
Cause: dismembered
Remarks: Zabi was dismembered after she had danced on a wedding. Her remains were sent to her family.
Sources: TvT project: Memorias 2011, TDOR Facebook page, 11.07.2011
year: 2011

Name: Camila Guzman
Age: 38
Profession: sex worker
Date: 01/08/11
sort by this date: 01/08/11
Month: August, 2011
Location data: East Harlem, New York City, USA
Place: New York City, USA
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: own apartment
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Camila was a sex worker. Camila's body was found with several stabs in her back. Her boyfriend confessed the murder. The relationship was described as abusive, e.g. the boyfriend stole items from Camila. The victim was a person of color (based on photographs published after death).
Sources: TvT project: The Advocate, 23.08.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 06/08/11
sort by this date: 06/08/11
Month: August, 2011
Location data: Recife, PE, Brazil
Place: Recife, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: beaten
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization Grupo Gay da Bahia, Tabela 2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 06/08/11
sort by this date: 06/08/11
Month: August, 2011
Location data: Rua Sílvia, Piedade, Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil
Place: Rua Sílvia, Piedade, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: O Globo, online portal, 6.08.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 06/08/11
sort by this date: 06/08/11
Month: August, 2011
Location data: Tlajomulco de Zúñiga Mexico
Place: Tlajomulco de Zúñiga
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: street
Cause: burned
Remarks: The victim's body was found buring in the early morning on a street.
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011; Informador, online portal, 7.8.2011
year: 2011

Name: Yelkin Nikley Jimenez
Age: 25
Profession: not reported
Date: 08/08/11
sort by this date: 08/08/11
Month: August, 2011
Location data: Maicao Colombia
Place: Maicao
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Yelkin was a leader in the local LGBT community. She was shot together with another community member, Jonathan Chinchia Manga. It is reported that they were in a group of young LGBT people that were caught in the middle of a gang feud.
Sources: TvT project: El Informador, online portal, 9.08.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 11/08/11
sort by this date: 11/08/11
Month: August, 2011
Location data: Tlalpan, Distrito Federal Mexico
Place: Tlalpan, Distrito Federal
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: street
Cause: burned
Remarks: The victims body was found partly burnt near a highway.
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011; La Prensa, online portal, 11.8.2011
year: 2011

Name: Wajahat
Age: 21
Profession: not reported
Date: 14/08/11
sort by this date: 14/08/11
Month: August, 2011
Location data: Orangi Town, Karachi, Pakistan
Place: Karachi, Pakistan
Region: Asia
Country: Pakistan
Location: own apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks: Wajahat, a transgender woman, was shot together with her partner after the two decided to marry by two men who entered their house and shot them to death.
Sources: TvT project: The News, 15.08.2011
year: 2011

Name: Baby (Alexandro) Lourenço Gonçalves
Age: 18
Profession: not reported
Date: 17/08/11
sort by this date: 17/08/11
Month: August, 2011
Location data: São José, João Pessoa, PB Brazil
Place: São José, João Pessoa, PB
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: hospital
Cause: shot
Remarks: Baby was shot by a woman on 16 August after an argument they had during a music event. She died the following day in hospital.
Sources: TvT project: Espresso PB, online portal, 17.08.2011
year: 2011

Name: Roberta (Alberto) Machado Amorim
Age: 21
Profession: not reported
Date: 20/08/11
sort by this date: 20/08/11
Month: August, 2011
Location data: Santa Luzia, MG Brazil
Place: Santa Luzia, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: own apartment
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: According to the police, six men, among them Roberta's ex boyfriend Tata (Edmar Antunes de Jesus), surprised Roberta at home and tortured her in order to get money that she and Tata had gained from selling a house. After three hours of using extreme forms of torture, the men killed Roberta. While the five other men were arrested, Tata was still fugitive.
Sources: TvT project: Canal Reis, online portal, w/o date; Gterra, online portal, 16.09.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: 29
Profession: not reported
Date: 20/08/11
sort by this date: 20/08/11
Month: August, 2011
Location data: Tiquisate, Escuintla Guatemala
Place: Tiquisate, Escuintla
Region: Central and South America
Country: Guatemala
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was around 29 years old. The body was found with stab wounds and marks of strangulation near a cart track. As the victim did not have any relatives in the area, neighours suspect that she was from El Salvador. She was last seen on the night of 19 August in a disco, and some persons, who were possibly the perpetrators, picked her up. According to the authorities, her body showed signs of sexual abuse.
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011; Prensa Libre, online portal, 20.8.2011
year: 2011

Name: La Frutera (Ender Antonio Serrano Rodríguez)
Age: 18
Profession: sex worker
Date: 21/08/11
sort by this date: 21/08/11
Month: August, 2011
Location data: Libertador, Merida, Venezuela Venezuela
Place: Libertador, Merida, Venezuela
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: La Frutera was from the city of El Virgia and used to come to Merida for sex work work. She was shot in the back at 11:40 pm by unknown persons. Friends and family members lamented that another killing had already taken place nearby and that the sex workers frequently receive 'homophobic' shouts.
Sources: TvT project: El Diario de los Andes, online journal, 23.08.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: 35
Profession: sex worker
Date: 24/08/11
sort by this date: 24/08/11
Month: August, 2011
Location data: 17. Arrondissement, Paris France
Place: 17. Arrondissement, Paris
Region: Europe
Country: France
Location: own apartment
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim's body was found with several stab wounds in the own apartment at around 2 am. The victim was a sex worker and in their 30s.
Sources: TvT project: Le Parisien, online portal, 24.08.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: August, 2011
sort by this date: 30/08/11
Month: August, 2011
Location data: Red Hills, Chennai, India
Place: Chennai
Region: Asia
Country: India
Location:
Cause: stoned
Remarks: The alleged murderer was a 33 year-old man, who was arrested by the police.
Sources: TvT project: Times of India 25.08.2011
year: 2011

Name: (Víctor Manuel) Ulloa Morales
Age: 39
Profession: practitioner of naturopathy
Date: 31/08/11
sort by this date: 31/08/11
Month: August, 2011
Location data: Santa Cruz de Yojoa Honduras
Place: Santa Cruz de Yojoa
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location: own apartment
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Unknown persons forcefully entered the victim's apartment in the early morning and shot the victim in the head.
Sources: TvT project: El Heraldo, online journal, 1.09.2011
year: 2011

Name: Suzie (Lionel) Morl
Age: 49
Profession: not reported
Date: August, 2011
sort by this date: 31/08/11
Month: August, 2011
Location data: Openshaw, Manchester, UK
Place: Manchester
Region: Europe
Country: UK
Location: apartment
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Suzie was killed by a couple of drug addicts who killed her, stuffed her body in a suitcase and then let her rot in their own bathroom. At court they confessed that they killed her to steal money to buy drugs. They were jailed for life for murder in July 2012.
Sources: TvT project: Mirror 13.06.2012; Daily Mail 06.07.2012
year: 2011

Name: La China (Alejandro Ismael) Saucedo Rodriguez
Age: 20
Profession: sex worker
Date: 05/09/11
sort by this date: 05/09/11
Month: September, 2011
Location data: La Presa, Aguascalientes Mexico
Place: La Presa, Aguascalientes
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: park
Cause: beaten
Remarks: La China's body was found floating in the lake La Presa, showing wounds of blows on the head. La China was a sex worker and had last been seen entering the park with a potential client on 5 September at around 8.30 pm.
Sources: TvT project: Aguas Digital, 8.09.2011
year: 2011

Name: Adriana
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 05/09/11
sort by this date: 05/09/11
Month: September, 2011
Location data: Luis Eduardo Magalhaes, BA Brazil
Place: Luis Eduardo Magalhaes, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Adriana was severely beaten in the early morning of 5 September. She was taken to an emergency station but had already died when arriving there.
Sources: TvT project: Mural do Oeste, online portal, 5.09.11
year: 2011

Name: Camila
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 06/09/11
sort by this date: 06/09/11
Month: September, 2011
Location data: Bairro Francisco Antonio Zea, Medellin Colombia
Place: Bairro Francisco Antonio Zea, Medellin
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Personeria de Medellin, Boletin de Prensa No. 159, 21.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 07/09/11
sort by this date: 07/09/11
Month: September, 2011
Location data: Santa Branca, Belo Horizonte, MG Brazil
Place: Santa Branca, Belo Horizonte, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: motel
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim entered a motel with a man, supposedly a client, around 2 am but shortly after went to the reception as she had been stabbed into the neck and the back. The emergency came, but the victim died on the location.
Sources: TvT project: Em, online portal, 7.09.2011
year: 2011

Name: Renata Desirree
Age: 18
Profession: not reported
Date: 08/09/11
sort by this date: 08/09/11
Month: September, 2011
Location data: São Raimundo Nonato, PI Brazil
Place: São Raimundo Nonato, PI
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: highway
Cause: shot
Remarks: Renata Desirre was found dead on a highway.
Sources: TvT project: Sobral 24 Horas, online portal, 9.09.2011
year: 2011

Name: Luana (Wagner) de Oliveira Batista
Age: 25
Profession: sex worker
Date: 08/09/11
sort by this date: 08/09/11
Month: September, 2011
Location data: Rondonopolis, MT Brazil
Place: Rondonopolis, MT
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: park
Cause: strangled
Remarks: Luana was a sex worker. Her body was found with marks of strangulation and a cut in the neck in a park.
Sources: TvT project: Clique F 5, online portal, 9.09.2011; 24 Horas News, 9.09.2011
year: 2011

Name: Suzi (Benedito) Divino da Silva
Age: 54
Profession: bartender
Date: 08/09/11
sort by this date: 08/09/11
Month: September, 2011
Location data: Nova Fatima, PR Brazil
Place: Nova Fatima, PR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: own apartment
Cause: strangled, stabbed
Remarks: Suzi worked at night clubs. Her body was found with marks of strangulation and stab wounds in the morning of 8 September.
Sources: TvT project: Radio Web, online portal, 9.09.11; Anunci Facil, online portal, 9.09.11
year: 2011

Name: Simone (Carleone) Santos Rodrigues
Age: 26
Profession: sex worker
Date: 09/09/11
sort by this date: 09/09/11
Month: September, 2011
Location data: Eunapolis, BA Brazil
Place: Eunapolis, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: own apartment
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Simone was a sex worker. Two men were seen entering her apartment at around 5 pm and leaving again with blood on their hands. The police was called at 5.40 pm, and arrived only around 9 pm. Simone was stabbed at least 17 times.
Sources: TvT project: Atlantica News, online portal, September 2011; Ocorrencia Policial Bahia, blog, 10.09.2011; Rota 51, online portal, 9.09.2011
year: 2011

Name: Gaurav Gopalan
Age: 35
Profession: not reported
Date: 10/09/11
sort by this date: 10/09/11
Month: September, 2011
Location data: 11th Street NW, Columbia Heights Washington
Place: Washington, D.C.
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: street
Cause: head injury
Remarks: The victim was of Tibentan ancestry. The killing was the fourth in a series of attacks against trans people in Washington. Two days later another trans woman was shot and survived.
Sources: TvT project: TvT research; The Advocate, 12.09.2011, Metro weekly, 20.11.2011
year: 2011

Name: (Carlos Eduardo) Ferreira de Oliveira
Age: 31
Profession: not reported
Date: 12/09/11
sort by this date: 12/09/11
Month: September, 2011
Location data: Rua Dr Otávio Tarquino, Nova Iguacu, RJ Brazil
Place: Rua Dr Otávio Tarquino, Nova Iguacu, RJ
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Bandeira G, online portal, 22.09.2011
year: 2011

Name: (Akeem) Laurel
Age: 27
Profession: not reported
Date: 16/09/11
sort by this date: 16/09/11
Month: September, 2011
Location data: West 38th Street, Savannah, GA USA
Place: West 38th Street, Savannah, GA
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: street (hospital)
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: The Coastal Sourca, online portal, 20.10.2011; Savannah Morning News, 19.09.2011
year: 2011

Name: (Wiji) Subekti
Age: 60
Profession: masseuse
Date: 17/09/11
sort by this date: 17/09/11
Month: September, 2011
Location data: Nganjuk, East Java, Indonesia
Place: Kediri
Region: Asia
Country: Indonesia
Location: street stall
Cause: poisoned
Remarks: The victim was poisoned by a 24year old man called Mujianto, when having dinner with him at a street stall. Mujianto is suspected of poisoning 15 gay people and murdering 5 of them.
Sources: TvT project: The Jakarta Post 20.02.2012
year: 2011

Name: Brigitte
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 17/09/11
sort by this date: 17/09/11
Month: September, 2011
Location data: Boca del Rio, Veracruz Venezuela
Place: Boca del Rio, Veracruz
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location: apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks: Brigitte was a prominent sex worker in Veracruz. According to a report that was not officially confirmed, Brigitte was killed in an apartment in the district of Boca del Rio.
Sources: TvT project: Terra, online portal, 21.09.2010
year: 2011

Name: (Jorge Alexis) Ortiz Hernández
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 17/09/11
sort by this date: 17/09/11
Month: September, 2011
Location data: San Cristobal Venezuela
Place: San Cristobal
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Two men on a motorbike fired numerous shots in the early morning at a group of trans women who were sex workers, killing one and injuring two, the 18 year-old 'Jhon Jairo Rodriguez' and 19 year-old 'Yeritson Camacho'. The authorities consider 'homophobia' to be a possible motif of the attack.
Sources: TvT project: La Nacion, online journal, 19.09.2011
year: 2011

Name: (Shamir Mussan)
Age: 32
Profession: not reported
Date: 18/09/11
sort by this date: 18/09/11
Month: September, 2011
Location data: Volcy-Pougnet Street, Port-Louis Mauritius
Place: Volcy-Pougnet Street, Port-Louis
Region: Africa
Country: Mauritius
Location: street
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was stabbed to death in front of her own apartment by a one of a group of men. They came to 'teach her a lesson' after the victim and her partner had an argument with a group of people earlier the same day. The police arrested nine suspects.
Sources: TvT project: Maurinews, online portal, 20.09.2011; Le Mauricien, online portal, 3.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: La Denisse (Adolfo Rivera Hurtado)
Age: 40
Profession: not reported
Date: 19/09/11
sort by this date: 19/09/11
Month: September, 2011
Location data: Galeana, Zacatepec
Place: Galeana, Zacatepec
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: bar (hospital)
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: La Denisse was from Tlaltizapán. She was stabbed to death in a bar in the early morning and died in hospital. It is reported that she had been arguing with a man who had beaten a woman. The man left the bar and came back and stabbed La Denisse in the back.
Sources: TvT project: Diario de los Morelos, online journal, 20.09.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 20/09/11
sort by this date: 20/09/11
Month: September, 2011
Location data: Rua Pedro Bérgamo, Boa Viagem, PE, Brazil
Place: Boa Viagem, Recife, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: beach
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker and her body was found on a beach with marks of beatings on the head.
Sources: TvT project: Folha de Pernambuco, online portal, October 2011; Mix Brasil, online portal, 28.09.2011
year: 2011

Name: Gabrielle (Darius) Frazier
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 20/09/11
sort by this date: 20/09/11
Month: September, 2011
Location data: 52nd St N, Birmingham, AL, USA
Place: Birmingham, AL
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: car
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was killed at point-blank.
Sources: TvT project: WBRC, online portal, 1.03.2012
year: 2011

Name: Lucie Parkin
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 20/09/11
sort by this date: 20/09/11
Month: September, 2011
Location data: La Quinta Inn, Hesperian Boulevard, Hayward, California, USA
Place: Hayward, California
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: motel
Cause: shot
Remarks: The police said that the victim was killed, because she owned the perpetrator money.
Sources: TvT project: The Advocate, 27.10.2011 & Oakland Tribune 27.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: (Nihat Kurt)
Age: 39
Profession: not reported
Date: 22/09/11
sort by this date: 22/09/11
Month: September, 2011
Location data: Basaksehir, Istanbul Turkey
Place: Basaksehir, Istanbul
Region: Europe
Country: Turkey
Location: own apartment
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim's body was found dead and naked in the own apartment on 25 September 2011 but had been dead for three days already. The victim had been stabbed three times in the chest, legs and heart.
Sources: TvT partner organization Pembe Hayat
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 22/09/11
sort by this date: 22/09/11
Month: September, 2011
Location data: Avenida Dom Hélder Câmara, Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Place: Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: bus stop
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim's body was found in the morning at a bus stop.
Sources: TvT project: Ultimo Segundo, online portal, 22.09.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: 26
Profession: not reported
Date: 28/09/11
sort by this date: 28/09/11
Month: September, 2011
Location data: Nova Serrana, MG Brazil
Place: Nova Serrana, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2011)
year: 2011

Name: (Helio) Pereira Menezes
Age: 28
Profession: not reported
Date: 02/10/11
sort by this date: 02/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: Araripina, PE Brazil
Place: Araripina, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim was beaten to death and parts of the body burnt.
Sources: TvT project: Gay1, online portal, 5.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: Paloma Perez
Age: 31
Profession: not reported
Date: 03/10/11
sort by this date: 03/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: San Juan de Miraflores, Lima Peru
Place: San Juan de Miraflores, Lima
Region: Central and South America
Country: Peru
Location: canal
Cause: strangled
Remarks: The victim's body was found under a bridge in a garbage bag and showed signs of utter cruelity. After strangling the victim, the perpetrators stabbed, beheaded and burnt the victim's body.
Sources: TvT partner organization TV Mex - Travestis Mexico, Summary 2011; Nuevo Ojo, online portal, 3.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 03/10/11
sort by this date: 03/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: Avenida Sabaneta, Maracaibo, Zulia Venezuela
Place: Avenida Sabaneta, Maracaibo, Zulia
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location: canal
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim's body was found naked and covered with litter bags in a canal, showing stab wounds in the chest, arms, hands and knees. The authorities belief the killing was committed in a different location.
Sources: TvT project: Noticia al Dia, online journal, 4.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: Tierrita (José Manuel Concepción)
Age: 25
Profession: sex worker
Date: 04/10/11
sort by this date: 04/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: Avenida San Martin, Santo Domingo Dominican Republic
Place: Avenida San Martin, Santo Domingo
Region: Central and South America
Country: Dominican Republic
Location: street
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Tierrita was a sex worker and lived in the district of Villa Mella.
Sources: TvT project: El Nacional, online journal, 5.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: Paloma (Joaquim) Rodrigues da Cunha
Age: 31
Profession: not reported
Date: 05/10/11
sort by this date: 05/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: Rua Perimetral, Fortaleza, CE Brazil
Place: Rua Perimetral, Fortaleza, CE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: highway
Cause: run-over by car
Remarks: Paloma was run over by a car. According to witnesses, she was using crack and, experiencing a psychotic crisis, she threw herself onto a highway, where she was killed. A smoking pipe was found nearby that the police belief belonged to Paloma.
Sources: TvT project: Jangadeiro, online portal, 6.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: Ramazan Cetin
Age: 24
Profession: not reported
Date: 06/10/11
sort by this date: 06/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: Cengiz Gökcek Hospital, Gaziantep, Turkey
Place: Ganziantep
Region: Europe
Country: Turkey
Location: hospital
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was shot by her brother in a hospital in front of other patients. It was a tranphobic hate crime. The brother confessed to the police, that he killed her, becuase she "was engaged in transvestism" and that he "cleansed his honour". The victim was suffering from violence from her family before.
Sources: TvT project: TvT partner organization Pembe Hayat & The Advocate, 08.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: Ceci (Rubén Rolando) Montenegro
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 09/10/11
sort by this date: 09/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: La Banda, Santiago del Estero Argentina
Place: La Banda, Santiago del Estero
Region: Central and South America
Country: Argentina
Location: hotel
Cause: shot
Remarks: Ceci was a sex worker. She was shot in the head and shoulder in a hostel. Pablo Alejandro Peralta was arrested and charged with murder.
Sources: TvT project: El Siglo, online portal, 12.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: (Jefferson) Diogo de Cezaro
Age: 23
Profession: not reported
Date: 10/10/11
sort by this date: 10/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: Rua Bento Gonçalves, Caxias do Sul, RS Brazil
Place: Rua Bento Gonçalves, Caxias do Sul, RS
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: car
Cause: strangled
Remarks: The victim was strangled and thrown out of a car. A witness reported the car's plate number to the police, who arrested the car owner and a second man.
Sources: TvT project: Rede Trans, online portal,
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: 40
Profession: sex worker
Date: 10/10/11
sort by this date: 10/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: General Paz, Córdoba Argentina
Place: General Paz, Córdoba
Region: Central and South America
Country: Argentina
Location: apartment
Cause: dismembered
Remarks: The victim's body was found in a garbage bag under the table in the apartment of 21 year-old Germán Alejo Torres, after neighbours had noticed a strong smell and called the police. The head, arms and legs had been cut off and put on the pavement to be picked up by the refuse collection. Torres confessed the crime. The victim could be identified preliminarily due to a tatoo and was presumably a sex worker.
Sources: TvT project: La Voz, online journal, 16.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: Joana (Sergio Ricardo) Farias
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 10/10/11
sort by this date: 10/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: Curitiba, PR Brazil
Place: Curitiba, PR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2011)
year: 2011

Name: Sandy
Age: 27
Profession: sex worker
Date: 13/10/11
sort by this date: 13/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: Itaparica, Vila Velha, ES Brazil
Place: Itaparica, Vila Velha, ES
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Sandy, who was between 25 and 30 years old, was shot five times by a person on a motorbike at around 8 pm. According to witnesses, Sandy was from the district of Terra Vermelha in the same city and had been doing sex work at the location of the crime for about a year.
Sources: TvT project: Folha Vitória, 14.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: Astrid Carolina Lopez Ceice
Age: 30
Profession: sex worker
Date: 13/10/11
sort by this date: 13/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: Tetuan, Madrid Spain
Place: Tetuan, Madrid
Region: Europe
Country: Spain
Location: client's apartment
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: 33 year-old Raul Vega Carvajal confessed having killed Astrid Carolina and buried her in his own backyard. While the confession was made on 3 November, the body had been buried for 15-20 days. Astrid Carolina was a sex worker and Raul Vega Carvajal one of her clients. He hit her with a hammer and then stabbed her to death with a knife.
Sources: TvT project: ABC/Diario Digital Transexual, w/d; El Mundo, online portal, 3.11.2011
year: 2011

Name: Elisa Sabatella Brasil
Age: 17
Profession: sex worker
Date: 15/10/11
sort by this date: 15/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: Cacoal, RO Brazil
Place: Cacoal, RO
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Thonny Hawany, blog, 18.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: (Maicon Michel) Cardoso da Silva Westenhofen
Age: 23
Profession: not reported
Date: 15/10/11
sort by this date: 15/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: Lajeado, RS Brazil
Place: Lajeado, RS
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: river
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The victim's body was found with marks of torture and a stab wound in the chest in the river Taquari. The police belief that the victim was killed on the weekend of 15/16 October, as the victim was missing since 15 October.
Sources: TvT project: Gazeto do Sul, online portal, 19.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: (Jose Manuel) Vargas Bringas
Age: 26
Profession: not reported
Date: 15/10/11
sort by this date: 15/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: Calle Río Guayalejo, Los Sábalos, Altamira, Mexico
Place: Los Sábalos, Altamira
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: own apartment
Cause: decapitated
Remarks: The victim was stabbed, strangled and beheaded by 21 year-old Jonathan Garcia Hernandez. The perpetrator stated he met the victim on the internet and committed the murder because the victim did not pay an amount agreed on for having sex.
Sources: TvT project: Milenio, online portal, 15.10.2011 & 16.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: (José) de Arimatéia da Silva
Age: 27
Profession: sex worker
Date: 16/10/11
sort by this date: 16/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: Patos, PB Brazil
Place: Patos, PB
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was from the city of Campina Grande. The mother stated she suspected prejudice to be the reason of the murder.
Sources: TvT project: Gay 1, online portal, 17.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: (Rashawn Bernard) Howard
Age: 26
Profession: not reported
Date: 17/10/11
sort by this date: 17/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: Bulloch Street, Savannah, GA USA
Place: Bulloch Street, Savannah, GA
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: car
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim, who was from Thunderbolt, was shot in the car which then ran into one parked. The victim died in hospital. The court charged then 16 year-old Jarrett Javonte Jones with murder.
Sources: TvT project: WTOC, online portal, 18.10.2011; Savannah Now, online portal, 19.01.2012
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 17/10/11
sort by this date: 17/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: Buner Pakistan
Place: Buner
Region: Asia
Country: Pakistan
Location: drawing room
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was killed with two other people during a private party by militants coming from outside of the village, who entered the party and opened fire killing three people and injuring two people. The locals said the attack won't affect their morale.
Sources: TvT project: The Express Tribune, 20.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: Lulu
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 18/10/11
sort by this date: 18/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: Medellin Colombia
Place: Medellin
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Personeria de Medellin, Boletin de Prensa No. 159, 21.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 19/10/11
sort by this date: 19/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: Betim, MG Brazil
Place: Betim, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: G online, online portal, 19.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: Naveena (Preethi)
Age: 32
Profession: not reported
Date: 20/10/11
sort by this date: 20/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: Bangalore, Karnataka India
Place: Bangalore, Karnataka
Region: Asia
Country: India
Location: apartment (hospital)
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: According to a witness, Navena was killed by a man called Abdul Farish, who invited her to his room to have sex with her, and stabbed her four times after she refused. Naveena was taken to the Victoria Hospital where she reportedly made a statement to the police before dying.
Sources: TvT project: IBN live, online portal, 2.12.2011
year: 2011

Name: Talha
Age: 22
Profession: not reported
Date: 22/10/11
sort by this date: 22/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: Abdullah College, Karachi, Pakistan
Place: Karachi
Region: Asia
Country: Pakistan
Location: shop
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was shot in a shop, when resisting a robbery.
Sources: TvT project: Daily Times, 23.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: Shelley 'Treasure' Hilliard
Age: 19
Profession: not reported
Date: 23/10/11
sort by this date: 23/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: Detroit, USA
Place: Detroit
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location:
Cause: decapitated
Remarks: Shelley Hilliard was a person of color (based on photographs published after death).
Sources: TvT project: Detroit News, 10.11.2011
year: 2011

Name: (Cristian Yoneiker) Torres Escuraima
Age: 19
Profession: sex worker
Date: 23/10/11
sort by this date: 23/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: Calle 9, San Cristobal Venezuela
Place: Calle 9, San Cristobal
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Various persons fired shots at a group of sex workers in the early morning. 'Cristian' was shot at least 20 times. He had told a relative that it had occurred several times already that shots had been fired at them only to scare them and make them run away.
Sources: TvT project: La Nacion, online journal, 23.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: Dudu (Eduardo) Paixão de Jesus
Age: 23
Profession: not reported
Date: 23/10/11
sort by this date: 23/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: Avenida Radial B, Camaçari, BA Brazil
Place: Avenida Radial B, Camaçari, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The victim had survived an attempted murder the previous year, where Dudu was shot six times.
Sources: TvT project: Grupo Contra o Preconceito, blog, 24.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 23/10/11
sort by this date: 23/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: Rua Professor Onésimo Silveira, Sao Paulo, SP Brazil
Place: Rua Professor Onésimo Silveira, Sao Paulo, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: park
Cause: stoned
Remarks: Two travestis were found dead in a park on 23 October.
Sources: TvT project: Camacari Noticias/Grupo Contra o Preconceito, 24.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 23/10/11
sort by this date: 23/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: Rua Professor Onésimo Silveira, Sao Paulo, SP Brazil
Place: Rua Professor Onésimo Silveira, Sao Paulo, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: park
Cause: stoned
Remarks: Two travestis were found dead in a park on 23 October.
Sources: TvT project: Camacari Noticias/Grupo Contra o Preconceito, 24.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: Malu (Antenor Manoel) dos Santos Moraes
Age: 34
Profession: sex worker
Date: 24/10/11
sort by this date: 24/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: Avenida Rio Madeira, Porto Velho, RO Brazil
Place: Avenida Rio Madeira, Porto Velho, RO
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker and was stabbed by a supposed client who had already attacked another travesti sex worker several days before. The police was looking for the perpetrator.
Sources: TvT project: Rondoniagora/Jornal Policial, 25.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: (Luis) Chichay Kano ('The Key')
Age: 38
Profession: not reported
Date: 24/10/11
sort by this date: 24/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: Berisso Argentina
Place: Berisso
Region: Central and South America
Country: Argentina
Location: hospital
Cause: burned
Remarks: The victim was set on fire after a dispute with her partner. She died 8 dies later in the hospital.
Sources: TvT project: Latin America Current Evenets, 24.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: Fogao (Adilson) Ferreira Rodrigues
Age: 41
Profession: sex worker
Date: 24/10/11
sort by this date: 24/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: Carmo da Mata, MG Brazil
Place: Carmo da Mata, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: field
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Fogao's body was found in the morning in near a gymnasium. Next to the body, two knifes and a brick with marks of blood were found.
Sources: TvT project: TV Alterosa, online portal, 24.10.2011; Jornal Fama, online portal, 25.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: Gabi (Davi) Pereira Dantas
Age: 17
Profession: cleaner
Date: 27/10/11
sort by this date: 27/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: Lagarto, SE Brazil
Place: Lagarto, SE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Gabi had moved to Lagarto from the city of Aracaju shortly before being killed in order to work as a cleaner.
Sources: TvT project: Sergipe Hoje, online portal, 28.10.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 29/10/11
sort by this date: 29/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: Recife, PE Brazil
Place: Recife, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: beaten
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organisation Grupo Gay da Bahia, Tabela 2011
year: 2011

Name: La Moma (Sebastián Manuel González Abad)
Age: 35
Profession: sex worker
Date: October, 2011
sort by this date: 31/10/11
Month: October, 2011
Location data: Calle 4, La Plata, Buenos Aires Argentina
Place: Calle 4, La Plata, Buenos Aires
Region: Central and South America
Country: Argentina
Location: own apartment
Cause: strangled
Remarks: La Moma's body was found half-naked and in a state of putrefaction on her bed with a scarf around her neck. Her brother called the police.
Sources: TvT project: El Dia, online journal, 9.11.11
year: 2011

Name: Jessica Rollon
Age: 32
Profession: sex worker
Date: 01/11/11
sort by this date: 01/11/11
Month: November, 2011
Location data: Ciserano Italy
Place: Ciserano
Region: Europe
Country: Italy
Location: street
Cause: head injury, strangled
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker of Brazilian descent and living in Italy since 2005. Italian NGO's complained about the transphobic way in which the murder was reported in local media.
Sources: TvT project: Eco di Bergamo, 03.11.2011 & GayWave.it 08.11.2011
year: 2011

Name: Luana (Kelvin) de Oliveira Moreira
Age: 18
Profession: sex worker
Date: 02/11/11
sort by this date: 02/11/11
Month: November, 2011
Location data: Rua Pardal, Rio Verde, GO Brazil
Place: Rua Pardal, Rio Verde, GO
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: own apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks: Luana was a sex worker from the city of Uberaba. She was shot to death when she walked home with the perpetrator and a colleague of hers. Although her colleague identified the perpetrator, the police only took his testimony and did not arrest him immediately.
Sources: TvT project: Plantao Policial de Rio Verde-Goias, 2.11.2011 & 4.11.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: 02/11/11
sort by this date: 02/11/11
Month: November, 2011
Location data: Coahuila Mexico
Place: Coahuila
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: highway
Cause: strangled
Remarks: The victim's body was found on the highway to Torreon entirely naked and with the remains of the sexual organs, parts of the skin as well as flesh from the limbs and other body parts cut off. The body was found on 4 November and had been dead for at least 36 hours. The victim was estimated to have been aged 30.
Sources: TvT project: El Diario de Coahuila, 7.11.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 02/11/11
sort by this date: 02/11/11
Month: November, 2011
Location data: Gaspar Hernandez Dominican Republic
Place: Gaspar Hernandez
Region: Central and South America
Country: Dominican Republic
Location: estate
Cause: strangled
Remarks: The victim was found dead with the hands, feet and neck tied.
Sources: TvT project: El Higuamo, online portal, 3.11.2011
year: 2011

Name: Muneer
Age: 45
Profession: not reported
Date: 04/11/11
sort by this date: 04/11/11
Month: November, 2011
Location data: Bhaati Gate, Lahore, Pakistan
Place: Lahore
Region: Asia
Country: Pakistan
Location: own apartment
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Pakistan Today, 05.11.2011
year: 2011

Name: Nicoll
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 04/11/11
sort by this date: 04/11/11
Month: November, 2011
Location data: Calle La Paz, Medellin Colombia
Place: Calle La Paz, Medellin
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location: street
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Unidad Permanente para los Derechos Humanos, Medellin, human rights organization, communication from 3.02.20 12
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 04/11/11
sort by this date: 04/11/11
Month: November, 2011
Location data: Av Juarez, Chihuahua, CHIH Mexico
Place: Av Juarez, Chihuahua, CHIH
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: van
Cause: decapitated
Remarks: The victim's body was found in a van together with the body of another trans person and a women, all of whom were reportedly sex workers. Several hours earlier, the police had received a phone call informing them that several men had abducted two travestis and a woman after they left a hotel named Carmen.
Sources: TvT project: El Heraldo de Chihuahua, 4.11.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 04/11/11
sort by this date: 04/11/11
Month: November, 2011
Location data: Av Juarez, Chihuahua, CHIH Mexico
Place: Av Juarez, Chihuahua, CHIH
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: van
Cause: dismembered
Remarks: The victim's body was found in a van together with the body of another trans person and a women, all of whom were reportedly sex workers. Several hours earlier, the police had received a phone call informing them that several men had abducted two travestis and a woman after they left a hotel named Carmen.
Sources: TvT project: El Heraldo de Chihuahua, 4.11.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: 40
Profession: not reported
Date: 08/11/11
sort by this date: 08/11/11
Month: November, 2011
Location data: Calle Canepa, Formosa Argentina
Place: Calle Canepa, Formosa
Region: Central and South America
Country: Argentina
Location: street (hospital)
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim was beaten and stabbed by members of youth gangs in the early morning of 4th November 2011 and died in hospital on the 8th. Six youths were detained and charged with murder.
Sources: TvT project: La Manana Online, online journal, 9.11.2011
year: 2011

Name: Patty Ruiz Saldana
Age: 28
Profession: not reported
Date: 12/11/11
sort by this date: 12/11/11
Month: November, 2011
Location data: Comas, Lima Peru
Place: Comas, Lima
Region: Central and South America
Country: Peru
Location: street
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Patty was brutally beaten and stabbed to death with 15 stabs by a men she had met at a night club. They had left together in a taxi headed for a hotel, but the taxi driver asked them to leave the car after the man started beating Patty.
Sources: TvT project: Generaccion, online portal, 13.11.2011
year: 2011

Name: Flor de Oro (Brayan Anderson Escarraga Medina)
Age: 28
Profession: stylist
Date: 13/11/11
sort by this date: 13/11/11
Month: November, 2011
Location data: Calle 11, Barranquilla, Atlantico Colombia
Place: Calle 11, Barranquilla, Atlantico
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location: street
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: According to witnesses, Flor de Oro was killed by a homeless person in the early morning after a discussion between the two.
Sources: TvT project: Elheraldo, online portal, 14.11.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 13/11/11
sort by this date: 13/11/11
Month: November, 2011
Location data: Recife, PE Brazil
Place: Recife, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: beaten
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organisation Grupo Gay da Bahia, Tabela 2011
year: 2011

Name: Samira (Mison Augusto) dos Santos
Age: 21
Profession: not reported
Date: 17/11/11
sort by this date: 17/11/11
Month: November, 2011
Location data: Boca do Rio, Salvador da Bahia Brazil
Place: Boca do Rio, Salvador da Bahia
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: own apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks: Samira was shot in the buttocks, back and ribs at around 7:30 pm at the entrance of her apartment by two men who passed by on the street on a motorcycle.
Sources: TvT project: Noticias Terra, online portal, 18.11.2011
year: 2011

Name: Cassidy (Nathan) Vickers
Age: 32
Profession: sex worker
Date: 17/11/11
sort by this date: 17/11/11
Month: November, 2011
Location data: Lexington Ave, Los Angeles, USA
Place: Los Angeles
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Cassidy was shot in the chest and killed at 9:55 pm. Police believe the same suspect may have been responsible for the attempted robbery of another African American transgender woman in Plummer Park in West Hollywood.
Sources: TvT project: LGBT Pov, online portal, 18.11.2011
year: 2011

Name: Angela
Age: 49
Profession: not reported
Date: 17/11/11
sort by this date: 17/11/11
Month: November, 2011
Location data: Arroyo Pantanoso, Montevideo Uruguay
Place: Arroyo Pantanoso, Montevideo
Region: Central and South America
Country: Uruguay
Location: apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks: Angela's body was found with three shots in the house of a trans person whom Angela had asked several days before if she can stay at their place. Angela's body was found on the weekend of 18 and 19 November, but the killing happened at least 48 hours earlier.
Sources: TvT project: El Pais, online portal, 24.11.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 18/11/11
sort by this date: 18/11/11
Month: November, 2011
Location data: Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil
Place: Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organisation Grupo Gay da Bahia, Tabela 2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 18/11/11
sort by this date: 18/11/11
Month: November, 2011
Location data: Calle Santa Ana, Prado de Maria, Caracas Venezuela
Place: Calle Santa Ana, Prado de Maria, Caracas
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location: street
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim's body was recovered in the early morning of the 18th. The authorities state that she was killed around 4.30 am. A neighbour reported that when he saw the victim lying on the street at 6.20, she was still breathing, but nobody came to help. Another neighbour stated that at 5.30 am she went to inform the local authorities, but they did not take any action.
Sources: TvT project: El Nacional, online journal, 19.11.2011
year: 2011

Name: Sonia Masi (Imran Ajmeri)
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 24/11/11
sort by this date: 24/11/11
Month: November, 2011
Location data: Ahmedabad, Gujarat India
Place: Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Region: Asia
Country: India
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Sonia Masi was a main spokesperson of the trans community in the state of Gujarat. She was shot at 8:20 pm six times at point-blank by men in a car as she was about to get refreshments at a snack bar. Sonia had already been subject to an attack in 2008.
Sources: TvT project: Daily News & Analysis India, online portal, 25.11.2011
year: 2011

Name: Shakira (Jose Antonio) Quinonez Ortega
Age: 25
Profession: not reported
Date: 25/11/11
sort by this date: 25/11/11
Month: November, 2011
Location data: Calle 34, Monteria, Cordoba, Colombia
Place: Monteria, Cordoba
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: strangled
Remarks: Shakira's body was found on 8 December when she had been dead for almost two weeks.
Sources: TvT project: El Meridiano de Cordoba, online portal, w/d
year: 2011

Name: Brenting Dolliole
Age: 22
Profession: not reported
Date: 26/11/11
sort by this date: 26/11/11
Month: November, 2011
Location data: Banks Street, New Orleans, USA
Place: New Orleans
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Brenting Dolliole was a person of color. Her killing was reported as being the 175th homicide in New Orleans in 2011.
Sources: TvT project: The Times Picayune 28.11.2011; The New York Times 07.12.2011; Youth Breakout 10.01.2012
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: 27
Profession: not reported
Date: 26/11/11
sort by this date: 26/11/11
Month: November, 2011
Location data: Calle 12, Chihuahua Mexico
Place: Calle 12, Chihuahua
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim's body was found at 3:30 am in the Historical Center of Chihuahua with wounds of gun shots in the head.
Sources: TvT project: El Heraldo de Chihuahua, 27.11.2011
year: 2011

Name: Gardenia (Claudio Lucio Miranda de Almeida)
Age: 47
Profession: sex worker
Date: 26/11/11
sort by this date: 26/11/11
Month: November, 2011
Location data: Rua Barreto Leme, Campinas, SP Brazil
Place: Rua Barreto Leme, Campinas, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Gardenia was clubbed to death with a stone block. The police arrested a 33 year-old suspect who is assumed to have proposed Gardenia to have paid sex.
Sources: TvT project: RAC, online portal, 8.12.2011
year: 2011

Name: Sarita (Antônio Gilson) da Costa Rodrigues
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: 29/11/11
sort by this date: 29/11/11
Month: November, 2011
Location data: Jacaranda, Camocim, CE Brazil
Place: Jacaranda, Camocim, CE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: rural area
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Sarita was stabbed to death by three men.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2011)
year: 2011

Name: Carol
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 29/11/11
sort by this date: 29/11/11
Month: November, 2011
Location data: Rua Paulo Alberto Pan, Jd Boa Esperanca, Sinop, MT Brazil
Place: Rua Paulo Alberto Pan, Jd Boa Esperanca, Sinop, MT
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Carol's body was found by locals around 5 am in front of a bar. She was killed by a gun shot in the eye.
Sources: TvT project: Agencia Noticia, online portal, 29.11.2011
year: 2011

Name: Y. M. A. Zambrano
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: November, 2011
sort by this date: 30/11/11
Month: November, 2011
Location data: Venezuela
Place:
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was killed by two men on a motorcycle.
Sources: TvT project: Memorias 2011, TDOR Facebook page, 10.11.2011
year: 2011

Name: Suely Scalla (Ademir) Melo Oliveira
Age: 41
Profession: hairdresser, performer
Date: 03/12/11
sort by this date: 03/12/11
Month: December, 2011
Location data: Avenida Francisco Glicério, Campinas, SP Brazil
Place: Avenida Francisco Glicério, Campinas, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Suely Scala was killed in the early morning on the city's main street. The police investigate a possible relation to a series of killings of homeless people in the city center. Sally Scala had been well-known in the LGBT community of Campinas since the 1980s.
Sources: TvT project: Tadashi HP, LGBT online portal, 8.12.2011
year: 2011

Name: (Carlos Porfirio) Juarez Quiroz
Age: 25
Profession: not reported
Date: 04/12/11
sort by this date: 04/12/11
Month: December, 2011
Location data: Tegucigalpa Honduras
Place: Tegucigalpa
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organisation TVMex - Travestis Mexico, Resumen 2011
year: 2011

Name: Ursula
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 04/12/11
sort by this date: 04/12/11
Month: December, 2011
Location data: R. Quinze de Novembro, Alvorada, Manaus, AM Brazil
Place: R. Quinze de Novembro, Alvorada, Manaus, AM
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: According to witnesses, Ursula was shot by a men who came with a car while she was standing on the street doing sex work. He shot her in the head, then left the vehicle and fired another five shots.
Sources: TvT project: Em Tempo, online portal, 5.12.2011
year: 2011

Name: (Pascual Ake Beh)
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 04/12/11
sort by this date: 04/12/11
Month: December, 2011
Location data: Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo Mexico
Place: Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The vicitm's body was found at 7 am with gunshots in the neck.
Sources: TvT project: Milenio, online portal, 5.12.2011; Por Esto, online portal, 5.12.2011
year: 2011

Name: Esmeralda (Jose) Severino da Silva
Age: 31
Profession: not reported
Date: 07/12/11
sort by this date: 07/12/11
Month: December, 2011
Location data: Lagoa Mundau, AL Brazil
Place: Lagoa Mundau, AL
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Esmeralda had been missing since 7 December, but her body was found only on the 9th by fishermen on the margins of a pond called Lagoa Mundau.
Sources: TvT project: Alagoas 24 Horas, online portal, 10.12.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: 23
Profession: hairdresser
Date: 08/12/11
sort by this date: 08/12/11
Month: December, 2011
Location data: Patos, PB Brazil
Place: Patos, PB
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: wasteland
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim's body was found in the early morning on a piece of wasteland. The victim was a hairdresser and sex worker. Her body was found about two hours after she had left with a client. The police assume 'homophobia' to be the motive of the crime.
Sources: TvT project: Gay 1, online portal, 9.12.2011
year: 2011

Name: Luningning (Felix) Alsade
Age: 23
Profession: not reported
Date: 09/12/11
sort by this date: 09/12/11
Month: December 2011
Location data: Sitio Ulibo Brgy. Buhisan Cebu City, Philippines
Place: Cebu City
Region: Asia
Country: Philippines
Location:
Cause: beaten and tortured
Remarks: The victim's body was found naked with genital mutilations and burn wounds. In her left chest was stabbed in the form of a bra.
Sources: TvT partner organization: STRAP
year: 2011

Name: La Loba (Robert Alejandro) Fonseca
Age: 22
Profession: sex worker
Date: 11/12/11
sort by this date: 11/12/11
Month: December, 2011
Location data: Calle 72, Maracaibo, Zulia Venezuela
Place: Calle 72, Maracaibo, Zulia
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location: car
Cause: shot
Remarks: La Loba was murdered by 36 year-old merchant Daniel Fernando Sanchez Sequera, who was a lover or client of hers. Sequera had driven with La Loba in his car, but after a discussion she left the car and he shot her.
Sources: TvT project: Noticia Al Dia, online portal, 21.12.2011
year: 2011

Name: Perla Mora (Mario Vega)
Age: 49
Profession: police officer
Date: 13/12/11
sort by this date: 13/12/11
Month: December, 2011
Location data: Chimbas, San Juan Argentina
Place: Chimbas, San Juan
Region: Central and South America
Country: Argentina
Location: car
Cause: decapitated
Remarks: Perla Mora's body was found beheaded, naked and presumably raped in a car on a camping-ground. Perla Mora was a police officer and an active member in the LGBT community.
Sources: TvT project: Minuto Uno, online portal, 13.12.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 13/12/11
sort by this date: 13/12/11
Month: December, 2011
Location data: Calle Victoria, Chihuahua, Mexico Mexico
Place: Calle Victoria, Chihuahua, Mexico
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: street
Cause: stoned
Remarks: The victim's body was found at 6 am at a public garden, yet had been dragged along a street before, leaving marks of blood on the asphalt.
Sources: TvT project: El Diario, online portal, 13.12.2011
year: 2011

Name: (Frederico) Claret dos Santos
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 19/12/11
sort by this date: 19/12/11
Month: December, 2011
Location data: Pouso Alegre, MG Brazil
Place: Pouso Alegre, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim was killed with numerous hits on the head with a stone after leaving a snack-bar on the night of the 19th. The alleged perpetrator is 23 year-old Renan Donizeti Tomas, who reportedly had a relationship with the victim.
Sources: TvT project: EP Noticia, online portal, 20.12.2011
year: 2011

Name: (Marvin Geovany) Ramos Miranda
Age: 23
Profession: sex worker
Date: 20/12/11
sort by this date: 20/12/11
Month: December, 2011
Location data: 1 Avenida, San Pedro Sula Honduras
Place: 1 Avenida, San Pedro Sula
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location: hotel
Cause: strangled
Remarks: The victim's body was recovered from a hotel room. According to witnesses, the victim, who was a sex worker, had entered a hotel in the compony of two persons. Then, two other persons entered who attacked the hotel employees. The victim was killed with one of the sheets from the hotel room. The body was recovered only around 10 hours after the killing.
Sources: TvT project: La Tribuna, 22.12.2011
year: 2011

Name: Patricia (Fernando) Costa Alves
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 20/12/11
sort by this date: 20/12/11
Month: December, 2011
Location data: Posto Horizonte, Rio Verde, GO Brazil
Place: Posto Horizonte, Rio Verde, GO
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: parking lot
Cause: shot
Remarks: Patricia was shot to death on a yard where trucks park, and where reportedly drug dealers, sex workers and clients meet at night. On 5 February a trans person with the legal name of Tiago da Silva Carvalho was shot to death on the same location.
Sources: TvT project: Imagem Goias, online portal, 6.2.2012
year: 2011

Name: Natalia (Raimundo) Ferreira
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 23/12/11
sort by this date: 23/12/11
Month: December, 2011
Location data: Jardim Paraiso, São José do Rio Preto, SP Brazil
Place: Jardim Paraiso, São José do Rio Preto, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: motel (hospital)
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Natalia was stabbed at around 6 am in a motel. She died in hospital shortly after. According to a witness, the murder was committed by a motorcyclist.
Sources: TvT project: Diario Web, online portal, 23.12.2011
year: 2011

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 23/12/11
sort by this date: 23/12/11
Month: December, 2011
Location data: Cesteros, Chimalhuacan Mexico
Place: Cesteros, Chimalhuacan
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: car
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim's body was found dead on the morning of the 23rd on lying on the back seats of a car.
Sources: TvT project: La Prensa, online portal, 23.12.2011
year: 2011

Name: Bruninha (Regis) dos Santos Lima
Age: 19
Profession: not reported
Date: 24/12/11
sort by this date: 24/12/11
Month: December, 2011
Location data: R. Bandeirantes, Apucarana, PR Brazil
Place: R. Bandeirantes, Apucarana, PR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Bruninha died on the 24th in hospital after she was shot in the face on the 21st on a cemetery in Apucarana. Bruninha had been stabbed in the chest and neck on 21 October. Although Bruninha had identified a 28 year-old woman as the perpetrator of the stabbing, she then did not want to enter legal action against her and the file was closed.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Grupo Gay da Bahia (Tabelas 2011)
year: 2011

Name: Fabiola
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 24/12/11
sort by this date: 24/12/11
Month: December, 2011
Location data: Avenida Juarez, Chihuahua, CHIH Mexico
Place: Avenida Juarez, Chihuahua, CHIH
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: bar
Cause: shot
Remarks: Fabiola was a sex worker. The two previous days, two similar killings occurred in the area, although it is not reported whether the victims were trans persons. In November 2010, another trans sex worker called Fabiola and a further sex worker were shot dead in the same area. In November 2011, two trans sex workers were shot dead in the same area.
Sources: TvT project: La Poliaca, online portal /
year: 2011

Name: Mona
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 27/12/11
sort by this date: 27/12/11
Month: December, 2011
Location data: R. Japura, Belo Horizonte, MG Brazil
Place: R. Japura, Belo Horizonte, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Mona was shot three times in the back and foot on the street where she lived with other homeless persons by a person who passed by by foot. Among various hypothises, the police suspect the involvement of a local resident or merchant in the crime, who did not want the travesti to be around. According to neighbours, the night before, a person had set the belongings of homeless people on fire and fired shots at them, without hitting anybody.
Sources: TvT project: Em, online portal, 27.12.2011
year: 2011

Name: Githe (Orlando) Goines
Age: 23
Profession: not reported
Date: 29/12/11
sort by this date: 29/12/11
Month: December, 2011
Location data: Old Gentilly Road, New Orleans, USA
Place: New Orleans
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location:
Cause: strangled
Remarks: Githe's killing was reported as being the 198th homicide in New Orleans in 2011.
Sources: TvT project: The Times Picayune 30.12.2011; Youth Breakout 10.01.2012
year: 2011

Name: Magnolia (Odair) Barbosa da Silva
Age: 31
Profession: sex worker
Date: 29/12/11
sort by this date: 29/12/11
Month: December, 2011
Location data: Centro, Maringa, PR Brazil
Place: Centro, Maringa, PR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: According to the police, Magnolia had come to Maringa from Umuarama several weeks before to do sex work.
Sources: TvT project: Maringa O Diario, online portal, 30.12.2011
year: 2011

Name: Dee Dee Pearson
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 31/12/11
sort by this date: 31/12/11
Month: December, 2011
Location data: 43rd Street, Kansas City, USA
Place: Kansas City
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: A client of the victim was arrested and charged in the killing.
Sources: TvT project: CAMP, Kansas City, 05.01.2012
year: 2011

Name: Ingrid Popinha (Carlos) Magno Rosa
Age: 25
Profession: not reported
Date: 01/01/12
sort by this date: 01/01/12
Month: January, 2012
Location data: Rua Cardoso Moreira, Campos, RJ Brazil
Place: Rua Cardoso Moreira, Campos, RJ
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks: After a street mass in commemoration of the New Year, Ingrid left and was found dead later with wounds in the thorax.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans. portalozknews.com.br 02.01.2012; Quem a Homofobia Matou Hoje?, online portal, 01.01.2012
year: 2012

Name: (Ricardo Júnior) de Jesus
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 04/07/05
sort by this date: 01/01/12
Month: 2012
Location data: BR-365, Ituiutaba, MG Brazil
Place: BR-365, Ituiutaba, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: On 4 October 2012, the remains of the body probably of a travesti, who had been missing for seven months, were found near a highway, showing a hole in the skull and two bullets nearby.
Sources: TvT project: Uipi, online portal, 04.10.2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2012
sort by this date: 01/01/12
Month: 2012
Location data: Republica Dominicana
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Dominican Republic
Location: not reported
Cause: not reported
Remarks: In a press conference in December 2012, the Dominican Trans-NGO COTRAVE (La Comunidad Trans Travesti Dominicana) reported 18 murdered trans people in the Dominican Republic in 2012.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Proceso.com.do, Periódico Online 10-12-2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2012
sort by this date: 01/01/12
Month: 2012
Location data: Republica Dominicana
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Dominican Republic
Location: not reported
Cause: not reported
Remarks: In a press conference in December 2012, the Dominican Trans-NGO COTRAVE (La Comunidad Trans Travesti Dominicana) reported 18 murdered trans people in the Dominican Republic in 2012.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Proceso.com.do, Periódico Online 10-12-2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2012
sort by this date: 01/01/12
Month: 2012
Location data: Republica Dominicana
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Dominican Republic
Location: not reported
Cause: not reported
Remarks: In a press conference in December 2012, the Dominican Trans-NGO COTRAVE (La Comunidad Trans Travesti Dominicana) reported 18 murdered trans people in the Dominican Republic in 2012.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Proceso.com.do, Periódico Online 10-12-2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2012
sort by this date: 01/01/12
Month: 2012
Location data: Republica Dominicana
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Dominican Republic
Location: not reported
Cause: not reported
Remarks: In a press conference in December 2012, the Dominican Trans-NGO COTRAVE (La Comunidad Trans Travesti Dominicana) reported 18 murdered trans people in the Dominican Republic in 2012.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Proceso.com.do, Periódico Online 10-12-2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2012
sort by this date: 01/01/12
Month: 2012
Location data: Republica Dominicana
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Dominican Republic
Location: not reported
Cause: not reported
Remarks: In a press conference in December 2012, the Dominican Trans-NGO COTRAVE (La Comunidad Trans Travesti Dominicana) reported 18 murdered trans people in the Dominican Republic in 2012.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Proceso.com.do, Periódico Online 10-12-2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2012
sort by this date: 01/01/12
Month: 2012
Location data: Republica Dominicana
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Dominican Republic
Location: not reported
Cause: not reported
Remarks: In a press conference in December 2012, the Dominican Trans-NGO COTRAVE (La Comunidad Trans Travesti Dominicana) reported 18 murdered trans people in the Dominican Republic in 2012.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Proceso.com.do, Periódico Online 10-12-2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2012
sort by this date: 01/01/12
Month: 2012
Location data: Republica Dominicana
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Dominican Republic
Location: not reported
Cause: not reported
Remarks: In a press conference in December 2012, the Dominican Trans-NGO COTRAVE (La Comunidad Trans Travesti Dominicana) reported 18 murdered trans people in the Dominican Republic in 2012.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Proceso.com.do, Periódico Online 10-12-2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2012
sort by this date: 01/01/12
Month: 2012
Location data: Republica Dominicana
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Dominican Republic
Location: not reported
Cause: not reported
Remarks: In a press conference in December 2012, the Dominican Trans-NGO COTRAVE (La Comunidad Trans Travesti Dominicana) reported 18 murdered trans people in the Dominican Republic in 2012.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Proceso.com.do, Periódico Online 10-12-2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2012
sort by this date: 01/01/12
Month: 2012
Location data: Republica Dominicana
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Dominican Republic
Location: not reported
Cause: not reported
Remarks: In a press conference in December 2012, the Dominican Trans-NGO COTRAVE (La Comunidad Trans Travesti Dominicana) reported 18 murdered trans people in the Dominican Republic in 2012.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Proceso.com.do, Periódico Online 10-12-2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2012
sort by this date: 01/01/12
Month: 2012
Location data: Republica Dominicana
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Dominican Republic
Location: not reported
Cause: not reported
Remarks: In a press conference in December 2012, the Dominican Trans-NGO COTRAVE (La Comunidad Trans Travesti Dominicana) reported 18 murdered trans people in the Dominican Republic in 2012.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Proceso.com.do, Periódico Online 10-12-2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2012
sort by this date: 01/01/12
Month: 2012
Location data: Republica Dominicana
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Dominican Republic
Location: not reported
Cause: not reported
Remarks: In a press conference in December 2012, the Dominican Trans-NGO COTRAVE (La Comunidad Trans Travesti Dominicana) reported 18 murdered trans people in the Dominican Republic in 2012.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Proceso.com.do, Periódico Online 10-12-2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2012
sort by this date: 01/01/12
Month: 2012
Location data: Republica Dominicana
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Dominican Republic
Location: not reported
Cause: not reported
Remarks: In a press conference in December 2012, the Dominican Trans-NGO COTRAVE (La Comunidad Trans Travesti Dominicana) reported 18 murdered trans people in the Dominican Republic in 2012.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Proceso.com.do, Periódico Online 10-12-2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2012
sort by this date: 01/01/12
Month: 2012
Location data: Republica Dominicana
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Dominican Republic
Location: not reported
Cause: not reported
Remarks: In a press conference in December 2012, the Dominican Trans-NGO COTRAVE (La Comunidad Trans Travesti Dominicana) reported 18 murdered trans people in the Dominican Republic in 2012.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Proceso.com.do, Periódico Online 10-12-2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2012
sort by this date: 01/01/12
Month: 2012
Location data: Republica Dominicana
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Dominican Republic
Location: not reported
Cause: not reported
Remarks: In a press conference in December 2012, the Dominican Trans-NGO COTRAVE (La Comunidad Trans Travesti Dominicana) reported 18 murdered trans people in the Dominican Republic in 2012.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Proceso.com.do, Periódico Online 10-12-2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2012
sort by this date: 01/01/12
Month: 2012
Location data: Republica Dominicana
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Dominican Republic
Location: not reported
Cause: not reported
Remarks: In a press conference in December 2012, the Dominican Trans-NGO COTRAVE (La Comunidad Trans Travesti Dominicana) reported 18 murdered trans people in the Dominican Republic in 2012.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Proceso.com.do, Periódico Online 10-12-2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2012
sort by this date: 01/01/12
Month: 2012
Location data: Republica Dominicana
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Dominican Republic
Location: not reported
Cause: not reported
Remarks: In a press conference in December 2012, the Dominican Trans-NGO COTRAVE (La Comunidad Trans Travesti Dominicana) reported 18 murdered trans people in the Dominican Republic in 2012.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Proceso.com.do, Periódico Online 10-12-2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2012
sort by this date: 01/01/12
Month: 2012
Location data: Honduras
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location: not reported
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Centro de Monitoreo de Medios de Comunicación Cattrachas-Organización Lésbica Feminista
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2012
sort by this date: 01/01/12
Month: 2012
Location data: Honduras
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location: not reported
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Centro de Monitoreo de Medios de Comunicación Cattrachas-Organización Lésbica Feminista
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2012
sort by this date: 01/01/12
Month: 2012
Location data: Honduras
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location: not reported
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Centro de Monitoreo de Medios de Comunicación Cattrachas-Organización Lésbica Feminista
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2012
sort by this date: 01/01/12
Month: 2012
Location data: Honduras
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location: not reported
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Centro de Monitoreo de Medios de Comunicación Cattrachas-Organización Lésbica Feminista
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2012
sort by this date: 01/01/12
Month: 2012
Location data: Honduras
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location: not reported
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Centro de Monitoreo de Medios de Comunicación Cattrachas-Organización Lésbica Feminista
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2012
sort by this date: 01/01/12
Month: 2012
Location data: Honduras
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location: not reported
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Centro de Monitoreo de Medios de Comunicación Cattrachas-Organización Lésbica Feminista
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2012
sort by this date: 01/01/12
Month: 2012
Location data: Honduras
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location: not reported
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Centro de Monitoreo de Medios de Comunicación Cattrachas-Organización Lésbica Feminista
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2012
sort by this date: 01/01/12
Month: 2012
Location data: Honduras
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location: not reported
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Centro de Monitoreo de Medios de Comunicación Cattrachas-Organización Lésbica Feminista
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 2012
sort by this date: 01/01/12
Month: 2012
Location data: Honduras
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization: Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: www.conexihon.info 08.09.2012
year: 2012

Name: Jessica (Leidel Luis)
Age: 18
Profession: not reported
Date: 04/01/12
sort by this date: 04/01/12
Month: January, 2012
Location data: Guaimaro, Camagüey Cuba
Place: Guaimaro, Camagüey
Region: Central and South America
Country: Cuba
Location: jail
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Jessica was detained and beaten for no apparent reason by police members. She was then taken to a police station where she was again beaten and put into a cell where she died from the beatings.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans. Cubanet.org 16.01.2012
year: 2012

Name: Jaime Antonio López
Age: 35
Profession: fiscal agent
Date: 1/5/2012
sort by this date: 05/01/12
Month: January, 2012
Location data: Machiques, Zulia Venezuela
Place: Machiques, Zulia
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location: own apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was shot various times by an unknown person who left the apartment on a motorbike.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Noticias24.com, 06.01.2012
year: 2012

Name: (Herminia) Lidoma
Age: 42
Profession: not reported
Date: 05/01/12
sort by this date: 05/01/12
Month: January, 2012
Location data: Davao, Philippines
Place: Davao
Region: Asia
Country: Philippines
Location: bar
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was described as a trans man who was having drinks with two men in a karaoke bar. When he had an argument with the the two men, one of them tok a knife and stabbed him several times.
Sources: TvT project: The Philippine LGBT Hate Crime Watch (PLHCW)
year: 2012

Name: Safira (Josimar) Ferreira Severino
Age: 23
Profession: sex worker
Date: 08/01/12
sort by this date: 08/01/12
Month: January, 2012
Location data: Rua Borba Gato, Bauru, SP Brazil
Place: Rua Borba Gato, Bauru, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: An unknown man shot the victim dead.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Mix. Brazil.aul.com.br, 10.01.2012; TvT project: Rede Bom Dia, 29.09.2012; Liberal, online portal, 24.01.2012
year: 2012

Name: Fayla Gold
Age: 26
Profession: not reported
Date: 09/01/12
sort by this date: 09/01/12
Month: January, 2012
Location data: Cajamar, SP Brazil
Place: Cajamar, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Quem a Homofobia Matou Hoje?, online portal, 09.01.2012
year: 2012

Name: Acucena (Adler)
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 12/01/12
sort by this date: 12/01/12
Month: January, 2012
Location data: Salvador da Bahia, BA Brazil
Place: Salvador da Bahia, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: thrown down stairs
Remarks: The victim was thrown down a set of stairs at a party. The police arrested the alleged perpetrator.
Sources: TvT project: Quem a Homofobia Matou Hoje?, online portal, 12.01.2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: 25
Profession: not reported
Date: 16/01/12
sort by this date: 16/01/12
Month: January, 2012
Location data: Colonia Fuentes, Santa Lucía, Apodaca, Nuevo León Mexico
Place: Colonia Fuentes, Santa Lucía, Apodaca, Nuevo León
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim’s body showed marks of torture. Before being shot, the victim was beaten and the hands semi-amputated. A message was left that read “Por Rata” (“By the Rat”). Neighbours had heard the shot but did not take any action.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: SDP Noticias Online 18.01.2012
year: 2012

Name: (Carlos Eduardo) Marcondes
Age: 31
Profession: sex worker
Date: 17/01/12
sort by this date: 17/01/12
Month: January, 2012
Location data: Rua José Sapaio, Londrina, PR, Brazil
Place: Londrina, PR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim talked to three men in a car and was shot by one of them.
Sources: TvT partner organization Grupo Gay da Bahia & O Diario de Londrina 18.01.2012
year: 2012

Name: Carla White
Age: 31
Profession: not reported
Date: 17/01/12
sort by this date: 17/01/12
Month: January, 2012
Location data: Avenida Tiradentes, Londrina, PR Brazil
Place: Avenida Tiradentes, Londrina, PR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: According to the police, the victim was shot by three persons in a car after they had started a discussion.
Sources: TvT project: O Diario Londrina, 18.01.2012
year: 2012

Name: Fernanda Borges da Silva
Age: 48
Profession: hairdresser
Date: 17/01/12
sort by this date: 17/01/12
Month: January, 2012
Location data: Avenida Padre Júlio Maria Lombard, Macapá, AP Brazil
Place: Avenida Padre Júlio Maria Lombard, Macapá, AP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was stabbed by a man with whom she had had a relationship for five years.
Sources: TvT project: Amapa Digital, online portal, 18.01.2012
year: 2012

Name: Crain Conaway
Age: 47
Profession: not reported
Date: 21/01/12
sort by this date: 21/01/12
Month: January, 2012
Location data: Marquette Street, Oceanside, CA, USA
Place: Oceanside, CA
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: own apartment
Cause: blunt trauma
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: City of Oceanside News, 02.04.2012
year: 2012

Name: Rebeca (Cosmo Marinho) da Silva
Age: 29
Profession: not reported
Date: 22/01/12
sort by this date: 22/01/12
Month: January, 2012
Location data: Martins, AL Brazil
Place: Martins, AL
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Various unidentified individuals shot Rebeca dead.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: www.alagoas24horas.com.br 22.04.2012; TvT project: Quem a Homofobia Matou Hoje?, online portal, 22.01.2012
year: 2012

Name: (Willian Rafael) dos Santos
Age: 38
Profession: sex worker
Date: 23/01/12
sort by this date: 23/01/12
Month: January, 2012
Location data: Vila Mariana, Santa Fé do Sul, SP, Brazil
Place: Santa Fé do Sul
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: own apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization Grupo Gay da Bahia & Regiao Noreste, 23.01.2012
year: 2012

Name: (Mateo) Vicente
Age: 21
Profession: not reported
Date: 25/01/12
sort by this date: 25/01/12
Month: January, 2012
Location data: Manila, Philippines
Place: Manila
Region: Asia
Country: Philippines
Location: street
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim was killed with a strong blow on the head.
Sources: TvT project: The Philippine LGBT Hate Crime Watch (PLHCW)
year: 2012

Name: Sabrina
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 25/01/12
sort by this date: 25/01/12
Month: January, 2012
Location data: Redencao, PA Brazil
Place: Redencao, PA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: own apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Diario do Para, online portal, 27.01.2012
year: 2012

Name: Maicon Roux
Age: 20
Profession: sex worker
Date: 26/01/12
sort by this date: 26/01/12
Month: January, 2012
Location data: BR-470, Indaial, SC Brazil
Place: BR-470, Indaial, SC
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: highway
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Gazeta do Vale do Itajaí, 26.01.2012
year: 2012

Name: Luana Preira Cruz
Age: 24
Profession: sex worker
Date: 26/01/12
sort by this date: 26/01/12
Month: January, 2012
Location data: Catu, BA, Brazil
Place: Catu, BA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street (hospital)
Cause: stabbed
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization Grupo Gay da Bahia & Itapoa Online 27.01.2012
year: 2012

Name: (Samuel) Bernal
Age: 36
Profession: not reported
Date: 29/01/12
sort by this date: 29/01/12
Month: January, 2012
Location data: North Cotabato, Philippines
Place: North Cotabato
Region: Asia
Country: Philippines
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was shot in the head.
Sources: TvT project: The Philippine LGBT Hate Crime Watch (PLHCW)
year: 2012

Name: Hair (Pedro) Tamiarana
Age: 26
Profession: not reported
Date: 30/01/12
sort by this date: 30/01/12
Month: January, 2012
Location data: Rua Joaquim Cardoso da Silveira, Curitiba, PR Brazil
Place: Rua Joaquim Cardoso da Silveira, Curitiba, PR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: own apartment
Cause: asphyxiation
Remarks: The body was found inside the victim’s own apartment with signs of strangulation.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans noticias.band.uol.com.br 31.01.2012; TvT project: Banda B, online portal, 31.01.2012
year: 2012

Name: Paola
Age: 28
Profession: not reported
Date: 30/01/12
sort by this date: 30/01/12
Month: January, 2012
Location data: Cidade Universitaria, Maceió, AL Brazil
Place: Cidade Universitaria, Maceió, AL
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: bar
Cause: shot
Remarks: Paola died after being shoot seven times.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans, TvT project: Tribuna Uniao, online portal, 30.01.2012
year: 2012

Name: Guilherme
Age: 16
Profession: not reported
Date: January, 2012
sort by this date: 31/01/12
Month: January, 2012
Location data: Sumaré, SP Brazil
Place: Sumaré, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: Guilherme was shot thirteen times.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans. www.oliberalnet.com.br 23.01.2012
year: 2012

Name: Brilli (Ramón Antonio) Olivero
Age: 49
Profession: sex worker
Date: January, 2012
sort by this date: 31/01/12
Month: January, 2012
Location data: El Roble, San Félix, Bolívar Venezuela
Place: El Roble, San Félix, Bolívar
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Brilli’s body was found half-naked and with seven gunshot wounds in different body parts on 22 January 2012. The authorities assume that she died as a consequence of a fight, but they don’t discard the possibility that the perpetrator was a client.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Globovision, Online 23.01.2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: January, 2012
sort by this date: 31/01/12
Month: January, 2012
Location data: 69077000, Manaus, AM
Place: By the campus of Universidade Amanazonas de Manaus, Manaus, AM
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: brushwood
Cause: strangled
Remarks: The police stated the victim’s body showed signs of strangulation.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Mix. Brazil.aul.com.br 10.01.2012; TvT project: A Critica, online portal, 17.01.2012
year: 2012

Name: La Princesa (Freddy) Payams Severino
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: January, 2012
sort by this date: 31/01/12
Month: January, 2012
Location data: Callejón Cuatro, Sector de Cristo Rey, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
Place: Puerto Plata
Region: Central and South America
Country: Dominican Republic
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organisation: Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans www.elnacional.com.do 03.01.2023
year: 2012

Name: Baku Chaudhari
Age: not reported
Profession: teacher
Date: January, 2012
sort by this date: 31/01/12
Month: January, 2012
Location data: Ahmedabad, India
Place: Ahmedabad
Region: Asia
Country: India
Location: own apartment
Cause: not reported
Remarks: According to the police the suspected murderers committed the murder. One of them was described as her gay lover, who kille her becaiuse of the jewellery she possessed.
Sources: Tvt project: Daily Bashkar 13.01.2012; Daily News and Analysis 13.01.2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 2/1/2012
sort by this date: 2/1/2012
Month: February, 2012
Location data: Via Montalbino 9, Milan, Italy
Place: Milan
Region: Europe
Country: Italy
Location: her flat
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was of Brazilian descent and was found in underwear with a knife in her chest.
Sources: TvT project: Associazione radicale Certi Diritti - Reporter Nuevo 02.02.2012
year: 2012

Name: Rafaela Cavalcante da Silva
Age: 21
Profession: not reported
Date: 02/02/12
sort by this date: 02/02/12
Month: February, 2012
Location data: Rua José Carlos Bezerra, Fortaleza, CE Brazil
Place: Rua José Carlos Bezerra, Fortaleza, CE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: According to witnesses, a friend of the victim's had been shot dead as well.
Sources: TvT project: Jangadeiro Online, online portal, 03.02.2012
year: 2012

Name: Deoni Jones
Age: 23
Profession: not reported
Date: 03/02/12
sort by this date: 03/02/12
Month: February, 2012
Location data: East Capitol Street, Washington D.C., USA
Place: Washington, D.C.
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: bus stop (hospita)l
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Deonie was a person of color. She was attacked by a man at a bus stop and stabbed in the head. She died in the hospital.
Sources: TvT project: Washington Blade 04.02.2012; Metro Weekly 11.04.2012
year: 2012

Name: Soraia (Valmir) da Silva
Age: 39
Profession: not reported
Date: 03/02/12
sort by this date: 03/02/12
Month: February, 2012
Location data: Olivença, AL Brazil
Place: Olivença, AL
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: hospital
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Soraya had been abducted and tortured without knowing or stating the reason. After being able to go home, she felt bad and was taken to hospital, where she died. It was found that she had had pieces of wood inserted into the rectum and intestines and the penis burnt.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans. montanhasrn.wordpress.com 24.02.2012
year: 2012

Name: Helen Jabor (Thiago da Silva Carvalho)
Age: 23
Profession: not reported
Date: 05/02/12
sort by this date: 05/02/12
Month: February, 2012
Location data: Rio Verde, GO Brazil
Place: Rio Verde, GO
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: gas station
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Patrulha RV, online portal, 06.02.2012
year: 2012

Name: (Tiago) da Silva Garcia
Age: 22
Profession: not reported
Date: 11/02/12
sort by this date: 11/02/12
Month: February, 2012
Location data: Rua Sérgio Gasparetto, Foz do Iguaçu, PR Brazil
Place: Rua Sérgio Gasparetto, Foz do Iguaçu, PR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Quem a Homofobia Matou Hoje?, online portal, 11.02.2012
year: 2012

Name: Melda (Metin) Yuksel
Age: 26
Profession: not reported
Date: 13/02/12
sort by this date: 13/02/12
Month: February, 2012
Location data: Kocaeli
Place: Kocaeli
Region: Europe
Country: Turkey
Location: own apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was shot by her brother in her apartment. The court gave decreased sentence to the perpetrator (16 years of imprisonment) with the argument that the perpetrator was under "heavy provocation".
Sources: TVT project: TGEU SC member Kemal Ordek
year: 2012

Name: Sarita (Rafael) Teodoro dos Reis
Age: 21
Profession: sex worker
Date: 17/02/12
sort by this date: 17/02/12
Month: February, 2012
Location data: Av. Jones dos Santos Neves, Barra de São Francisco, ES Brazil
Place: Av. Jones dos Santos Neves, Barra de São Francisco, ES
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street (hospital)
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Boca Larga, online portal, 17.02.2012
year: 2012

Name: (Paulo Afonso) Martins
Age: 42
Profession: not reported
Date: 21/02/12
sort by this date: 21/02/12
Month: February, 2012
Location data: Rua Marechal Floriano, Porto Alegro, RS Brazil
Place: Rua Marechal Floriano, Porto Alegro, RS
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: own apartment
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The alleged perpetrator has been arrested. According to witnesses, victim and perpetrator llived in the same apartment and had an argument the night before the killing
Sources: TvT project: Radio Guaiba, 21.02.2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 22/02/12
sort by this date: 22/02/12
Month: February, 2012
Location data: Carretera Chilpancingo-Chichihualco, Kilómetro 1, Guerrero Mexico
Place: Chichihualco-Chilpancingo highway, Guerrero
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: highway
Cause: shot
Remarks: An anonymous call reported the dead body to the police. The victim had received a shot at point blank in the head.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: LaPoliciaca.com 23.02.2012
year: 2012

Name: (Roberto Paulo) de Campos
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 24/02/12
sort by this date: 24/02/12
Month: February, 2012
Location data: São Mateus, MT, Brazil
Place: Estrada do Formigueiro, MT
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: road
Cause: stoned
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker. After being attacked and severely injured on a road in a rural area, she was left for six hours until being found, trying to indicate the perpetrator(s) to the police. Shortly after, she died.
Sources: TvT project: Media News, online portal, 24.02.2012
year: 2012

Name: Monserrat (Jonathan José) Pineda
Age: 22
Profession: human rights activist
Date: 27/02/12
sort by this date: 27/02/12
Month: February, 2012
Location data: Avenida 17, Cabañas, San Pedro Sula Honduras
Place: Avenida 17, Cabañas, San Pedro Sula
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location: street (hospital)
Cause: shot
Remarks: After constant threats by a security guard, Monserrat Pineda reported the aggressor to the police. As the victim passed the security guard’s place of work, she was shot. She was taken to the hospital, where she died. She was a member of the activist organisation Colectivo Unidad Color Rosa.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Periódico La Tribuna, Online 28.02.2012
year: 2012

Name: (Jorge Luiz) Feretti
Age: 21
Profession: not reported
Date: February, 2012
sort by this date: 28/02/12
Month: February, 2012
Location data: BR-470, Indaial, SC Brazil
Place: BR-470, Indaial, SC
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: highway
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The victim's body was found on 18 February near a highway, the face covered in blood.
Sources: TvT project: Interativa Regional, online portal, 21.02.2012
year: 2012

Name: Dulce (Ivis Rolando) Mejía
Age: 23
Profession: human rights activist
Date: February, 2012
sort by this date: 28/02/12
Month: February, 2012
Location data: San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Place: Colonia Providencia San Pedro Sula
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location: own apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim died of three gun shots in the head. She was a member of an association of the gay community and a promoter of HIV/AIDS prevention.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Periódico El Heraldo Online 14.02.2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: 25
Profession: not reported
Date: February, 2012
sort by this date: 28/02/12
Month: February, 2012
Location data: Rio Verde, GO Brazil
Place: Rio Verde, GO
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: woodland
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Quem a Homofobia Matou Hoje?, online portal, 20.02.2012
year: 2012

Name: Evelyn (Daniel Arlex) Ossa Rodríguez
Age: 26
Profession: not reported
Date: February, 2012
sort by this date: 28/02/12
Month: February, 2012
Location data: Cataluna, Medellin, Colombia
Place: Cataluna, Medellin
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location: own apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks: The perpetrators entered the victim’s apartment and shot her in the head. Evelyn was from France and had come to Medellín shortly before her death.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: www.tuseguridad.ec 23.02.2012
year: 2012

Name: Bruna Semiao Cock
Age: 31
Profession: not reported
Date: 28/02/12
sort by this date: 28/02/12
Month: February, 2012
Location data: Novara, Italy
Place: Novara
Region: Europe
Country: Italy
Location: own car
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was of Brazilian descent.
Sources: TvT project: Paperblog 28.02.2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: February, 2012
sort by this date: 28/02/12
Month: February, 2012
Location data: Carretera a San Mateo, Ciudad Benito Juárez, Monterrey, Nuevo León Mexico
Place: Carretera a San Mateo, kilómetro 11, Ciudad Benito Juárez, Monterrey, Nuevo León
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: highway
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Judicial authorities and members of the Armed Forces confirmed the report of three executed trans persons, two of whom were trans women.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans. ivpressonline.com 29.02.2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: February, 2012
sort by this date: 28/02/12
Month: February, 2012
Location data: Carretera a San Mateo, Ciudad Benito Juárez, Monterrey, Nuevo León Mexico
Place: Carretera a San Mateo, kilómetro 11, Ciudad Benito Juárez, Monterrey, Nuevo León
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: highway
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Judicial authorities and members of the Armed Forces confirmed the report of three executed trans persons, two of whom were trans women.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans. ivpressonline.com 29.02.2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: not reported
sort by this date: 28/02/12
Month: February, 2012
Location data: Hotel Sn. Felipe, Apan, Hidalgo, Mexico
Place: Hidalgo
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: hotel
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was found with a gunshot wound in the head in a hotel.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Por Esto.net, Periódico Online 14-02-2012
year: 2012

Name: Raquel
Age: 35
Profession: not reported
Date: 07/03/12
sort by this date: 07/03/12
Month: March, 2012
Location data: Recife, PE, Brazil
Place: Recife
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: beaten
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organization Grupo Gay da Bahia
year: 2012

Name: José Enrique Castro Zuñiga
Age: 22
Profession: not reported
Date: 11/03/12
sort by this date: 11/03/12
Month: March, 2012
Location data: Rivera Hernández, San Pedro Sula
Place: Colonia Llanos de Sula, Rivera Hernández, San Pedro Sula
Region: Central and South America
Country: Honduras
Location: canal
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim’s body was found in the brushwood of a canal showing various shot wounds.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Periódico La Tribuna Online. 11.03.2012
year: 2012

Name: (Cícero) Neto Brás de Sousa
Age: 28
Profession: not reported
Date: 14/03/12
sort by this date: 14/03/12
Month: March, 2012
Location data: Teresina, PI Brazil
Place: Teresina, PI
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: police station
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim had been arrested by the police for beating a sister. While the police stated that the victim committed suicide in jail, relatives, friends and neighbours insist that the police killed her, pointing out contradictions in the stories told by police members and marks of beatings on the victim's body.
Sources: TvT project: Associacao de Travestis do Piaui, online blog, 14.03.2012
year: 2012

Name: Miquilo (Miguel Angel) Mamaní
Age: 29
Profession: sex worker
Date: 14/03/12
sort by this date: 14/03/12
Month: March, 2012
Location data: Ruta Nacional 50, Salta Argentina
Place: Ruta Nacional 50, Salta
Region: Central and South America
Country: Argentina
Location: street (hospital)
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: In the early morning, various individuals got out of a car and, without any known motive, attacked the victim, inflicting several wounds with a sharp weapon. Before dying, the victim stated having been attacked by a group of “ultramoralist” youths who assault travestis.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: El Tribuno Salta Online. 15.03.2012
year: 2012

Name: Chiquinha (Francisco) Neco de Oliveira
Age: 35
Profession: stylist
Date: 14/03/12
sort by this date: 14/03/12
Month: March, 2012
Location data: Teresina, PI Brazil
Place: Teresina, PI
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: own car
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim’s body was found in the trunk of her own car, showing wounds of stone beatings.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans, TvT project: Associacao Travestis do Piaui, online blog, 14.03.2012.
year: 2012

Name: Rosita Hidalgo
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 15/03/12
sort by this date: 15/03/12
Month: March, 2012
Location data: Michigan Avenue, Miami, USA
Place: Miami
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: own apartment
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: Rosita was of Cuban descent. She worked as a small-time escort bringing her clients to her apartment. She was found gagged, stabbed, and slashed in her apartment.
Sources: TvT project: Advocate 28.06.2012; Miami New Times 23.072012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: 40
Profession: not reported
Date: 16/03/12
sort by this date: 16/03/12
Month: March, 2012
Location data: Chañarcillo, Maipú, Chile
Place: Calle Chañarcillo, Maipú
Region: Central and South America
Country: Chile
Location: street
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim’s body showed lesions in the head, which caused the death in the early morning.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans. www.terra.cl 16.03.12
year: 2012

Name: Demetrio Apaza Mayta
Age: 43
Profession: not reported
Date: 18/03/12
sort by this date: 18/03/12
Month: March, 2013
Location data: Avenida Mariscal Santa Cruz, Villa Ingenio, El Alto, Bolivia
Place: El Alto
Region: Central and South America
Country: Bolivia
Location: street
Cause: burned
Remarks: The victim was lynched by a mob. It is reported that she went with a group of people who have been chased by criminals. When the rest of the group fled, the victim was recognized as a trans person. She was beaten up and then burned alive.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: La Prensa.com, Periódico Online 20-03-2012
year: 2012

Name: Javier
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 18/03/12
sort by this date: 18/03/12
Month: March, 2012
Location data: Salamanca, Guanajuato Mexico
Place: Salamanca, Guanajuato
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: own apartment
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans www.periodico.am 19.10.2012
year: 2012

Name: (Demetrio) Apaza Mayta
Age: 42
Profession: not reported
Date: 19/03/12
sort by this date: 19/03/12
Month: March, 2012
Location data: El Alto, La Paz, Bolivia
Place: La Paz
Region: Central and South America
Country: Bolivia
Location: street
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim was tortured, burned, and beaten to death by a mob of up to 400 people.
Sources: TvT project: ERBOL 19.03.2012; Bolivia Weekly 21.03.2012
year: 2012

Name: Marcela (Eliomar) Machado de Almeida
Age: 23
Profession: not reported
Date: 20/03/12
sort by this date: 20/03/12
Month: March, 2012
Location data: Teresina, PI Brazil
Place: Teresina, PI
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: wasteland
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Associacao de Travestis do Piaui, online blog, 20.03.2012
year: 2012

Name: Elaine (Elton Jonh) Felipe de Oiveira da Silva
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 22/03/12
sort by this date: 22/03/12
Month: March, 2012
Location data: Joao Pessoa, PB Brazil
Place: Joao Pessoa, PB
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Quem a Homofobia Matou Hoje?, online portal, 22.03.2012
year: 2012

Name: (Samuel) Ferreira do Nascimento
Age: 22
Profession: sex worker
Date: 24/03/12
sort by this date: 24/03/12
Month: March, 2012
Location data: Rua Oscar Araripe, Fortaleza, CE Brazil
Place: Rua Oscar Araripe, Fortaleza, CE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker and was killed in the early morning on the street where she used to do sex work.
Sources: TvT project: Jangadeiro Online, online portal, 24.03.2012
year: 2012

Name: Tyrell Jackson
Age: 23
Profession: sex worker
Date: 24/03/12
sort by this date: 24/03/12
Month: March, 2012
Location data: West 5th Street, Riviera Beach, Florida, USA
Place: Riviera Beach
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Jackson was shot together with a friend in a drive-by-shooting by a man, who is described as targeting young trans people, who do sex work. The friend of Jackson, also a trans sex worker, survived.
Sources: TvT project: Advocate 09.04.2012; WPTV news 26.03.2012
year: 2012

Name: Daniela (David Oswaldo) Pantoja Churion
Age: 21
Profession: not reported
Date: 25/03/12
sort by this date: 25/03/12
Month: March, 2012
Location data: Ocumare del Tuy Venezuela
Place: Ocumare del Tuy
Region: Central and South America
Country: Venezuela
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Daniela was shot dead together with a 19-year-old woman called Alejandra.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans www.entornointeligente.com 26.03.2012
year: 2012

Name: Shahid
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: 26/03/12
sort by this date: 26/03/12
Month: March, 2012
Location data: Shafiqabad, Lahore, Pakistan
Place: Lahore
Region: Asia
Country: Pakistan
Location: own apartment
Cause: stabbed
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: The Express Tribune 27.03.2012
year: 2012

Name: Mônica
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 26/03/12
sort by this date: 26/03/12
Month: March, 2012
Location data: Rua Antônio Sodré, Sao Goncalo, RJ Brazil
Place: Rua Antônio Sodré, Sao Goncalo, RJ
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: bar
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was shot in the early morning by a man on a motorbike near a bar.
Sources: TvT project: O Sao Goncalo, 27.03.2012
year: 2012

Name: Hana (Adriano) Santiago Rocha
Age: 25
Profession: sex worker
Date: 28/03/12
sort by this date: 28/03/12
Month: March, 2012
Location data: Vila Brasil,Ribeirão Preto, SP Brazil
Place: Vila Brasil,Ribeirão Preto, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was a sex worker and stabbed to death, presumably by a client who fled the scene after committing the crime.
Sources: TvT project: Quem a Homofobia Matou Hoje?, online portal, 29.03.2012
year: 2012

Name: Tugce (Hasan) Sahingoz
Age: 23
Profession: sex worker
Date: 30/03/12
sort by this date: 30/03/12
Month: March, 2012
Location data: Izmir, Turkey
Place: Izmir
Region: Europe
Country: Turkey
Location: in her car
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was shot in her car. The perpetrator was arrested.
Sources: TVT project: TGEU SC member Kemal Ordek
year: 2012

Name: Roberta (Fernando) Candeira Aires Neto
Age: 16
Profession: student
Date: 31/03/12
sort by this date: 31/03/12
Month: March, 2012
Location data: Av. Pedro Freitas, São Pedro, Teresina, PI Brazil
Place: Av. Pedro Freitas, São Pedro, Teresina, PI
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was stabbed five times by a 17-year-old friend of her childhood.
Sources: TvT project: Associacao de Travestis do Piaui, online blog, 31.03.2012
year: 2012

Name: (David William) Cândido de Oliveira
Age: 20
Profession: not reported
Date: March, 2012
sort by this date: 31/03/12
Month: March, 2012
Location data: Londrina, PR Brazil
Place: Londrina, PR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: wasteland
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The victim’s body was found at a construction site on 22 March with marks of violence.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans. londrina.odiario.com 22.03.2012; TvT project: Quem a Homofobia Matou Hoje?, online portal, 22.03.2012
year: 2012

Name: Agnes Torres
Age: 35
Profession: activist
Date: March, 2012
sort by this date: 31/03/12
Month: March, 2012
Location data: Atlixco, Puebla Mexico
Place: Atlixco, Puebla
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: gully
Cause: decapitated
Remarks: Agnes was a trans activist. Her body was found decapitated in a gully near a highway. It is assumed that before, she had been beaten and burned on one arm and the side of the thorax.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: SexenioPuebla Online. 11.03.2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: 55
Profession: not reported
Date: March, 2012
sort by this date: 31/03/12
Month: March, 2012
Location data: La Trinidad Tepango, Atlixco, Puebla Mexico
Place: La Trinidad Tepango, Atlixco, Puebla
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: highway
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim died due to blows on the head. The body was found in a state of decomposition, approximately six days after death.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Noticias SexenioPuebla, Online. 04.03.2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 31/03/12
sort by this date: 31/03/12
Month: March, 2012
Location data: Capão Grande, MT Brazil
Place: Capão Grande, MT
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: highway (hospital)
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim died of two gun shots.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Mix. Brazil.aul.com.br 03.04.2012
year: 2012

Name: (José Carlos) de Almeida
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: March, 2012
sort by this date: 31/03/12
Month: March, 2012
Location data: Teresina, PI Brazil
Place: Teresina, PI
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: An alleged perpetrator was arrested on 20 March 2012.
Sources: TvT project: Associacao de Travestis do Piaui, online blog, 20.03.2012
year: 2012

Name: Perlita (Eduardo) Cano
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: March, 2012
sort by this date: 31/03/12
Month: March, 2012
Location data: Lago de la República, Ciudad del Este Paraguay
Place: Lago de la República, Ciudad del Este
Region: Central and South America
Country: Paraguay
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Her body was found in a trans sex workers’s area, which she did not use to frequent herself.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans www.diariovanguardia.com.py 23.03.2012
year: 2012

Name: Baga (Edson) Duarte de Souza
Age: 38
Profession: not reported
Date: 01/04/12
sort by this date: 01/04/12
Month: April, 2012
Location data: Lagoa das Pedras, Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ Brazil
Place: Lagoa das Pedras, Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: own apartment
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim's body was found burned on the sofa in her own apartment, which the perpetrator set on fire.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Mix. Brazil.aul.com.br 03.04.2012; TvT project: Gay 1 Rio de Janeiro, online portal, 03.04.2012
year: 2012

Name: Talita (Cláudio) Araújo Santos
Age: 17
Profession: not reported
Date: 02/04/12
sort by this date: 02/04/12
Month: April, 2012
Location data: Renascer, Cabedelo, PB Brazil
Place: Renascer, Cabedelo, PB
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was shot at the door of her own apartment.
Sources: TvT project: Quem a Homofobia Matou Hoje?, online portal, 02.04.2012
year: 2012

Name: (Rafael) Alves Lopes
Age: 24
Profession: domestic servant, sex worker
Date: 02/04/12
sort by this date: 02/04/12
Month: April, 2012
Location data: Timbú, Eusebio, CE Brazil
Place: Timbú, Eusebio, CE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Jangadeiro, online portal, 03.04.2012
year: 2012

Name: Chyateki
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 4/2/2012
sort by this date: 4/2/2012
Month: April, 2012
Location data: Pashpathi Temple, Kathmandu, Nepal
Place: Kathmandu
Region: Asia
Country: Nepal
Location: temple area
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Chyateki was brutally beaten up in the evening around 7:30 pm by an unknown person. The murder was pre-planned and Chyateki was known and visible as a trans person lving in the tempkle area. After the attack she was taken to the Kathmandu Medical College hospital, from where she was referred to Teaching hospital and again she was referred to Bir hospital. Because of shifting from one hospital to another she could not got treatment intime and died. Activists claim that the shifting from one hospital to another had to do with transphobia. They also did organize a protest and tried to file a complaint at the police, but they never get a reort and the case was dismissed.
Sources: TvT project: Blue Diamond Society
year: 2012

Name: Coko Williams
Age: 35
Profession: not reported
Date: 03/04/12
sort by this date: 03/04/12
Month: April, 2012
Location data: Parkhurst, Detroit, USA
Place: Detroit
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: street
Cause: slit throat, shot
Remarks: Coko was killed by a man, who fled n a car in an area, which is known for sex work.
Sources: TvT project: CBS Local Detroit 04.04.2012; Huffington Post 04.04.2012
year: 2012

Name: Nukhet (Kadir) Kızılkaya
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 05/04/12
sort by this date: 05/04/12
Month: April, 2012
Location data: Aydın, Turkey
Place: Aydın
Region: Europe
Country: Turkey
Location: own apartment
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was found dead in her apartment, stabbed 40 times to death.
Sources: TVT project: TGEU SC member Kemal Ordek
year: 2012

Name: (Wagner) de Moraes
Age: 22
Profession: not reported
Date: 06/04/12
sort by this date: 06/04/12
Month: April, 2012
Location data: R. Ana Moretz Miranda, Sao José dos Pinhais, PR Brazil
Place: R. Ana Moretz Miranda, Sao José dos Pinhais, PR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: stoned
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Crimes Curitiba, online portal, 06.04.2012
year: 2012

Name: Karolly Mel
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 06/04/12
sort by this date: 06/04/12
Month: April, 2012
Location data: R. Epitácio Pessoa, Sao Paulo, SP Brazil
Place: R. Epitácio Pessoa, Sao Paulo, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: car
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim was beaten to death and thrown out of a car.
Sources: TvT project: Santa Cruz Agreste, online portal, 11.04.2012
year: 2012

Name: Meankshiammal
Age: 42
Profession: not reported
Date: 09/04/12
sort by this date: 09/04/12
Month: April, 2012
Location data: Mullai Nagar, Hosur, Tamil Nadu, India
Place: Hosur
Region: Asia
Country: India
Location: own apartment
Cause: slit throat
Remarks: The victim's body was found naked with marks of burns on the chest. Police suspect that a youth, who used to visit Meenakshiammal frequently, may be involved in the crime.
Sources: TvT project: IBN libe, 12.04.2012; News Reporter 12.04.2012
year: 2012

Name: Paige Clay
Age: 23
Profession: clerk
Date: 16/04/12
sort by this date: 16/04/12
Month: April, 2012
Location data: West Garfield Park, Chicago, USA
Place: Chicago
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: Clay was a person of colour.
Sources: TvT project: Windy City Times 17.04.2012; Huffington Post 19.04.2012
year: 2012

Name: Greice Kelly (Wanderson Jesus) Pereira
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 18/04/12
sort by this date: 18/04/12
Month: April, 2012
Location data: Tres Lagoas, MS Brazil
Place: Tres Lagoas, MS
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim was known for having won the city's "Miss Gay" title twice. The police arrested the perpetrator.
Sources: TvT project: G Planeta, online blog, 18.04.2012
year: 2012

Name: Leandro Eduardo Campos Ferreira
Age: 25
Profession: stylist
Date: 26/04/12
sort by this date: 26/04/12
Month: April, 2012
Location data: Av. Leopoldino Canuto de Melo, Olinda, PE Brazil
Place: Av. Leopoldino Canuto de Melo, Olinda, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: street
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim was shot eleven times.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans, TvT project: Folha Pe, online portal, 27.04.2012
year: 2012

Name: Ranjita (Gita)
Age: 50
Profession: hijra leader assistant
Date: 27/04/12
sort by this date: 27/04/12
Month: April, 2012
Location data: Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan, India
Place: Sri Gangangar
Region: Asia
Country: India
Location:
Cause: strangled
Remarks: Ranjita was the guru of a hijra dera. According to the police she was killed, because of the walth of her hijra dera.
Sources: TvT project: Business Standard 09.07.2012; Deccan Herald 09.07.2012; The Hindu 10.07.2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 27/04/12
sort by this date: 27/04/12
Month: April, 2012
Location data: Av. Otávio Braga de Mesquita, Guarulhos, SP Brazil
Place: Av. Otávio Braga de Mesquita, Guarulhos, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The alleged murderer was arrested by the police and confessed the crime, saying he had killed the victim and a woman who was a sex worker because they reminded him of his mother.
Sources: TvT project: Folha Online, 13.05.2012
year: 2012

Name: (Fernando) Carvalho Martins dos Santos
Age: 20
Profession: not reported
Date: 28/04/12
sort by this date: 28/04/12
Month: April, 2012
Location data: R. Jerônimo Teodoro Souza, Franca, SP Brazil
Place: R. Jerônimo Teodoro Souza, Franca, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: wasteland
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Folha Franca News, online portal, 28.04.2012
year: 2012

Name: Cristiely (Geovanilson) de Souza da Costa
Age: 19
Profession: not reported
Date: 29/04/12
sort by this date: 29/04/12
Month: April, 2012
Location data: Av. Pres. Castelo Branco, Santa Inês, MA Brazil
Place: Av. Pres. Castelo Branco, Santa Inês, MA
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: sports ground
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Agora Santa Ines, 30.04.2012
year: 2012

Name: Brandy Martell
Age: 37
Profession: outreach worker
Date: 29/04/12
sort by this date: 29/04/12
Month: April, 2012
Location data: Franklin Street, Oakland, USA
Place: Oakland
Region: North America
Country: USA
Location: in own car
Cause: shot
Remarks: Brandy was sitting in her car having a conversation with two men. She was killed by one of them, who had "become enraged and shot her when he realized she was trans." Witnesses believe that it was a hate crime. Brandy was a person of colour.
Sources: TvT project: ABC Local 30.04.2012; Huffington Post, 02.05.2012
year: 2012

Name: Bianca Niero (José Dejair) Melle Sobrinho
Age: 21
Profession: not reported
Date: 30/04/12
sort by this date: 30/04/12
Month: April, 2012
Location data: Vinhedo, SP Brazil
Place: Vinhedo, SP
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: hospital
Cause: beaten, stabbed
Remarks: The victim died in hospital on 30 April, after having been in coma since 19 April with severe injuries of stabs and beatings.
Sources: TvT project: Quem a Homofobia Matou Hoje?, online portal, 30.04.2012
year: 2012

Name: Pamela.
Age: 26
Profession: sex worker
Date: April, 2012
sort by this date: 30/04/12
Month: April, 2012
Location data: Melo Uruguay
Place: Melo
Region: Central and South America
Country: Uruguay
Location: fountain
Cause: not reported
Remarks: Pamela’s body was found inside a fountain eight days after she had disappeared. The body showed clear signs of sexual abuse and the death was caused by blows.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Periódico El Observador Online. 18.04.2012
year: 2012

Name: Jaqueline Lorenzo (Jacson) de Souza Neves
Age: 29
Profession: not reported
Date: April, 2012
sort by this date: 30/04/12
Month: April, 2012
Location data: Chapecó, SC Brazil
Place: Chapecó, SC
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: rural area
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The victim, whose body was found on 19 April, had been missing since 14 April 2012.
Sources: TvT project: Clic RBS, online portal, 19.04.2012
year: 2012

Name: Debora (Javier) Arango
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: April, 2012
sort by this date: 30/04/12
Month: April, 2012
Location data: Doleguita, David, Chiriquí Panama
Place: Doleguita, David, Chiriquí
Region: Central and South America
Country: Panama
Location: motel
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Debora was presumably an indigenous person. Her body showed wounds of various blows in the face. She died inside the room she had rented.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans. El Siglo.com 02.04.2012
year: 2012

Name: Gabriela/La Brasileña
Age: 37
Profession: not reported
Date: April, 2012
sort by this date: 30/04/12
Month: April, 2012
Location data: Uruguay
Place:
Region: Central and South America
Country: Uruguay
Location:
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Periódico El Observador Online. 24.04.2012
year: 2012

Name: Cláudia (Sebastiao Francisco) Vila Nova
Age: 38
Profession: not reported
Date: April, 2012
sort by this date: 30/04/12
Month: April, 2012
Location data: Bezerros, PE Brazil
Place: Bezerros, PE
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: pond
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The body of the victim, who was around 38 years old, was found on 9 April 2012.
Sources: TvT project: Blog do Adielson Galvao, blog, 10.04.2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: April, 2012
sort by this date: 30/04/12
Month: April, 2012
Location data: BR-116, Governador Valadares, MG Brazil
Place: BR-116, Governador Valadares, MG
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: highway
Cause: dismembered
Remarks: The victim's body was found dismembered and gagged in a plastic bag near a highway.
Sources: TvT project: Quem a Homofobia Matou Hoje?, online portal, 23.04.2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: April, 2012
sort by this date: 30/04/12
Month: April, 2012
Location data: Avenida Paraguay, La Aguada, Montevideo Uruguay
Place: Avenida Lima y Paraguay, La Aguada, Montevideo
Region: Central and South America
Country: Uruguay
Location: street
Cause: not reported
Remarks: The victim’s body was found on a street.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Periódico El Observador Online. 24.04.2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: April, 2012
sort by this date: 30/04/12
Month: April, 2012
Location data: Uruguay
Place:
Region: Central and South America
Country: Uruguay
Location:
Cause: not reported
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Periódico El Observador Online. 24.04.2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: 38
Profession: not reported
Date: 5/2/2012
sort by this date: 5/2/2012
Month: May, 2012
Location data: Palazzo Alliata di Pietratagliata, Palermo, Italy
Place: Palermo
Region: Europe
Country: Italy
Location: historic building
Cause: strangled
Remarks: The murder was first seen as a suicide, but later subsumed in a series of murders, which occured in the area.
Sources: TvT project: L'arena, 26.04.2013
year: 2012

Name: Sharmila
Age: not reported
Profession: hijra leader assistant
Date: 07/05/12
sort by this date: 07/05/12
Month: May, 2012
Location data: Majnu Ka Tila, Delhi, India
Place: Delhi
Region: Asia
Country: India
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Sharmila was the confidant of Sharmila, who was murdered one week earlier by the same people. She was "hammered to death".
Sources: TvT project: Business Standard 09.07.2012; Deccan Herald 09.07.2012; The Hindu 10.07.2012
year: 2012

Name: Paloma (Charles) Moreira de Sousa
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 08/05/12
sort by this date: 08/05/12
Month: May, 2011
Location data: Araguaína, TO Brazil
Place: Araguaína, TO
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location:
Cause: beaten
Remarks:
Sources: TvT project: Surgiu, online portal, 10.05.2012
year: 2012

Name: Stefanny
Age: 25
Profession: not reported
Date: 09/05/12
sort by this date: 09/05/12
Month: May, 2011
Location data: BR-470, Blumenau, SC Brazil
Place: BR-470, Blumenau, SC
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: bridge
Cause: hanged
Remarks: The victim's body was found hanged on a bridge.
Sources: TvT project: Interativa Regional, online portal, 09.05.2012; Journal Alternativo, 14.05.2012
year: 2012

Name: Anil Aayiramthengu
Age: 39
Profession: harbour worker
Date: 10/05/12
sort by this date: 10/05/12
Month: May, 2012
Location data: Kollam Port, Thangassery, India
Place: Thangassery
Region: Asia
Country: India
Location: harbour
Cause: throat slit
Remarks: Anil was a transgender and queer activist. In the area, where she was living "hate pamplets" had been distributed before her killing. Activists called the killing "a brutal signal from murdering homophobic patriarchy that trans people/queer people/ non-conforming persons of all kinds have no right to live". Two weeks after the murder, police arrested three suspects, who confirmed the killing. One of them called it a "revenge", because he heard a rumour that Anil was HIV-positive and feared that he got infected because he had sex with her.
Sources: TvT project: News Net East 11.05.2012 & 21.05.2011
year: 2012

Name: N.N
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 10/05/12
sort by this date: 10/05/12
Month: May, 2011
Location data: Esperança, PB Brazil
Place: Esperança, PB
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: marsh
Cause: shot
Remarks:
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans, TvT project: Portal F6, online blog, 10.05.2012.
year: 2012

Name: César Aníbal Argel Negrete
Age: 40
Profession: stylist, activist
Date: 15/05/12
sort by this date: 15/05/12
Month: May, 2012
Location data: La Esmeralda, Barranquilla Colombia
Place: La Esmeralda, Barranquilla
Region: Central and South America
Country: Colombia
Location:
Cause: stabbed
Remarks: The victim died due to a machete attack by various persons. The victim was a human rights defender in the area of sexual diversity.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Zoom.com.co 16.05.2012
year: 2012

Name: Liro Liro (Murilo) Cezar Lopes
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 16/05/12
sort by this date: 16/05/12
Month: May, 2011
Location data: Peabiru, PR Brazil
Place: Peabiru, PR
Region: Central and South America
Country: Brazil
Location: highway
Cause: shot
Remarks: The victim's body was found with gunshot wounds in the back, chest and head.
Sources: TvT project: Radio Cidade Peabiru, 16.05.2012
year: 2012

Name: Bibi (Orbelín) Ramos de la Cruz
Age: not reported
Profession: sex worker
Date: 16/05/12
sort by this date: 16/05/12
Month: May, 2012
Location data: Emiliano Zapata, Atasta de Serra, Tabasco Mexico
Place: Calle Emiliano Zapata, Atasta de Serra, Tabasco
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: hospital
Cause: beaten
Remarks: Bibi was drinking beer in the company of a friend or client, who was the perpetrator. She died in hospital.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: El Heraldo de Tabasco 17.05.2012
year: 2012

Name: José Armando Rocha Ramos
Age: 21
Profession: not reported
Date: 19/05/12
sort by this date: 19/05/12
Month: May, 2012
Location data: Carretera Irapuato-Salamanca, Guanajuato Mexico
Place: Carretera Irapuato-Salamanca, Guanajuato
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: highway
Cause: run-over by car
Remarks: The police assume that it was no accident, since the dead body had been relocated from the scene of the crime.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans www.oem.com.mx 19.05.2012
year: 2012

Name: Kimberly (José Edgar) López Inzunza
Age: not reported
Profession: not reported
Date: 25/05/12
sort by this date: 25/05/12
Month: May, 2012
Location data: Colonia Luis Donaldo Colosio, Sinaloa Mexico
Place: Colonia Luis Donaldo Colosio, Sinaloa
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: own apartment
Cause: shot
Remarks: Kimberly was murdered inside her own apartment.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans www.noroeste.com.mx 25.05.2012
year: 2012

Name: José Ibáñez Quirola
Age: 22
Profession: hair dresser
Date: May, 2012
sort by this date: 31/05/12
Month: May, 2012
Location data: Ecuador
Place: not reported
Region: Central and South America
Country: Ecuador
Location: highway
Cause: stoned
Remarks: The victim was hit with a stone on the head several times. Her body abandoned naked on the highway.
Sources: TvT partner organization: Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans. www.lahora.com.ec 08.05.2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: May, 2012
sort by this date: 31/05/12
Month: May, 2012
Location data: Alajuela Costa Rica
Place: Alajuela
Region: Central and South America
Country: Costa Rica
Location: farm
Cause: shot
Remarks: The body was found on the acres of a farm, showing signs of torture. The victim was hit in the face, stabbed and then shot dead.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans: Diario Extra Online. 14.05.2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: May, 2012
sort by this date: 31/05/12
Month: May, 2012
Location data: Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco, Mexico
Place: Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: street
Cause: beaten
Remarks: The victim’s body was found, showing marks of beatings with the head covered with masking tape.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans. www.zocalo.com.mx/ 16.05.2012
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: May, 2012
sort by this date: 31/05/12
Month: May, 2012
Location data: Independencia, Los Puestos, Tlaquepaque, Jalisco Mexico
Place: Independencia, Los Puestos, Tlaquepaque, Jalisco
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: street
Cause: strangled
Remarks: The bodies of two trans women were found with marks of strangulation.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans. www.zocalo.com.mx 16.05.12
year: 2012

Name: N.N.
Age: 30
Profession: not reported
Date: May, 2012
sort by this date: 31/05/12
Month: May, 2012
Location data: Independencia, Los Puestos, Tlaquepaque, Jalisco Mexico
Place: Independencia, Los Puestos, Tlaquepaque, Jalisco
Region: Central and South America
Country: Mexico
Location: street
Cause: strangled
Remarks: The bodies of two trans women were found with marks of strangulation.
Sources: TvT partner organisation Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans. www.zocalo.com.mx 16.05.12
year: 2012