This page brings together policy briefs and technical documents developed through the Statistical Justice project. These publications translate research findings, institutional analysis, and community knowledge into practical recommendations for governments, public institutions, civil society organizations, and other actors working to improve official data systems. They examine how people are recognized across administrative records, identity documents, health systems, and death-registration processes, and propose concrete pathways to make public information more inclusive, reliable, coordinated, and protective of trans and non-binary people.
A diverse CRVS system: toward data that include everyone#
Type: Technical report
Organizations: Vital Strategies, Liga de Salud Trans, and Global Health Advocacy Incubator
Date: July 2024
This technical report examines whether Colombia’s civil registration and vital statistics system is prepared to recognize gender diversity. Combining international evidence, legal and institutional analysis, vital statistics data, and interviews with trans community leaders, it identifies gaps in official records and proposes practical measures to improve recognition, data quality, institutional coordination, and the inclusion of gender identity in death registration.
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When death tears you apart: the omission of trans identities from death certificates in Colombia#
Type: Policy brief
Organizations: Liga de Salud Trans
Date: March 2026
This policy brief translates the findings of a qualitative study with trans and non-binary community leaders across Colombia into practical recommendations for institutional reform. It documents how death-registration processes can erase lived identities, obstruct investigations and mourning, and exclude chosen families, and calls for gender identity and chosen names to be recorded, advance declarations to be recognized, and institutional protocols to be developed with trans organizations.
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Trans and non-binary people in Colombia’s vital statistics: statistical invisibility is a rights issue, not a technical problem#
Type: Policy brief
Organizations: Liga de Salud Trans
Date: May 2026
This policy brief explains how statistical invisibility produces concrete harms for trans and non-binary people in Colombia: transfeminicides disappear from official data, inconsistencies between government records create barriers to services, and public policies are designed without adequate evidence. It identifies a timely window for reform and calls for coordinated government action, meaningful participation by trans communities, and strong safeguards against surveillance and misuse of personal data.
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