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'I'm not going to hide what I am anymore'
When a criminal gang targeted Ana and Paula's* teenage daughter and son, the family ran for their lives.
An LGBTI couple who fled violence in Latin America, walk hand in hand down the streets of their new home, Geneva, Switzerland.
© UNHCR/Mark Henley
By Tim Gaynor in rural Mexico  |  17 May 2021
In the hardscrabble neighbourhood where her family lived in Honduras, criminal gang members took note when Paula’s daughter reached adolescence.
“They said of my daughter, ‘soon she’ll be weighed in pounds,’” Paula said, explaining that the phrase is used by members of the gang to describe young girls they deem ready for sexual exploitation. “They said, ‘we’re going to take her.’”

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