Natalia Lane
Natalia Lane is a human rights defender in Mexico City. She studied Communications at UNAM and specialized in written journalism at the University of Antioquia Colombia. For ten years she has been dedicated to the defense of trans women for the decriminalization of sex work. She is part of the Observatory of Hate Crimes Against LGBT People and has been a national consultant for the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) in Europe on universal health coverage for trans women in Mexico. Natalia is a survivor of an attempted transfeminicide in the capital of Mexico. She is currently fighting for access to justice and comprehensive reparations for sex workers.
Human rights defenders (HRDs) and journalists in Mexico are subject to intimidation, legal harassment, arbitrary detention, death threats, acts of physical aggression, enforced disappearances and killings as a result of their activities in defence of human rights and the exercise of freedom of expression and journalism.
