Feminas Peru advocates for increased trans women empowerment through information, community activities, political and social advocacy to exercise citizenship.
Feminas Peru advocates for increased trans women empowerment through information, community activities, political and social advocacy to exercise citizenship.
Empoderamiento de mujeres trans a través de la información, las actividades comunitarias, la incidencia política y el activismo social, para ejercer ciudadanía
Armario Abierto advocates for initiatives that enable the construction of fairer living conditions and support and ensures that people who embrace diverse genders and sexual identities live lives free from violence.
Armario Abierto is an independent, non-governmental, private and non-profit organization born in 2010 in Manizales. We advocate for initiatives seeking to contribute to the construction of fairer living conditions and support and ensure that people who embrace diverse genders and sexual identities live lives free from violence. Our actions focus especially on women who identify as lesbian, bisexual and transgender, as well as those who who are in vulnerable positions due to the conditions in which they engage in sex work.
Somos una organización autónoma, no gubernamental, privada y sin ánimo de lucro que nace en el año 2010 en Manizales, desde la cual se promueven iniciativas que buscan aportar a la construcción de condiciones de existencia más justas y respaldar la garantía de vidas libres de violencias para las personas que asumen identidades de género y/o ejercen sexualidades diversas. Enfocamos nuestras acciones especialmente en las mujeres que se identifican como lesbianas, bisexuales y transgénero, así como en aquellas que por las condiciones en las que ejercen el trabajo sexual se encuentran en situación de vulnerabilidad.
“Right Side” is a leading trans and sex workers community-based rights defender non-governmental organization for the protection of transgender people and sex workers within the region of Armenia.
“Right Side” is the first and leading trans and sex workers community-based rights defender non-governmental organization for the protection of transgender people and sex workers in the region. The “Right Side” NGO was registered by the State Register of Legal Entities Agency of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia as a human rights defender NGO on January 25, 2016. It carries out its activities based on its bylaws, in the whole territory of the Republic of Armenia, outside the territory of the Republic of Armenia, according to the local legislation of that country. The organization has established cooperative relations with diplomatic missions, UN agencies, CoE, other intergovernmental, non-governmental, international, local organizations and networks.
TransWave is a non-governmental organization working to advance the health, welfare, and well-being of the transgender community in Jamaica and the Caribbean.
TransWave is a non-governmental organization working to advance the health, welfare, and well-being of the transgender community in Jamaica and the Caribbean. Founded in 2015, they started as an advocacy initiative in the form of a blog. The idea was formulated by their co-founders Akilah White and Neish McLean during a workshop hosted by WE-Change Jamaica and partners.
West Africa Trans Forum (WATF) is a network of Trans * people and/or groups led by Trans, intersex and non-conforming * people in West Africa
West Africa Trans Forum (WATF) was founded in June 2017. It is a network of Trans * people and/or groups led by Trans, intersex and non-conforming * people whose work requires a strong movement both nationally and regionally because they face a great threat in issues of violations and discrimination. The mission of WATF is to address violence, stigma and discrimination against trans people in West Africa and Cameroon through regional advocacy and awareness raising, to ensure trans specific healthcare and HIV care & treatment through sensitization of healthcare workers and key state and non-state actors and to improve the capacity of individuals and organizations through small grants and capacity strengthening initiatives.
Tajassod is a trans embodiment project that focuses on bringing forward information for trans individuals to try to have a healthier and safer future in their “homes”.
Tajassod is a trans embodiment initiative that focuses on bringing forward information for trans individuals to try to have a healthier and safer future in their “homes”. It functions through two strategies: information availability and practical networking. The idea of Tajassod was born in November 2016 out of a need for information and a support network for a trans activist when he started hormone treatment. Despite being an established activist with access to language, internet, lawyers and organizations that cater to trans individuals, many gaps arose. Tajassod’s goal is to enable the trans community to have access to transition procedures, treatment and information locally without them having to migrate/travel from Lebanon to seek friendly and informed medical interventions. It also aims to increase visibility for trans-organized initiatives and integration of trans politics in the civil society in Lebanon. Tajassod is housed by Qorras, which is a relatively new group aimed at politicizing the access to information and creating spaces for mutual learning around gender and sexuality.
Trans Network Balkan (Trans Mreza Balkan – TMB) formed in 2014 to provide support and empower trans, inter and gender variant (TIGV) communities in post‐Yugoslav countries where they face high levels of gender‐based oppression, discrimination, violence and segregation.
Trans Network Balkan (Trans Mreza Balkan – TMB) formed in 2014 to provide support and empower trans, inter and gender variant (TIGV) communities in post‐Yugoslav countries where they face high levels of gender‐based oppression, discrimination, violence and segregation. TMB is currently most active in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia. Their primary areas of work are providing TIGV persons, especially youth, with information; raising awareness on TIGV issues; providing peer support, convening and connecting TIGV activists; and coordinating joint capacity building and peer‐learning activities. They are catalyzing TIGV leadership by supporting the development of TIGV groups in countries where there is not yet any TIGV infrastructure, and supporting groups to grow and learn through peer exchanges and information‐sharing.
Founded in 2012, kolekTIRV (ex-Trans Aid) is the first trans group to form in Croatia, working to create a just society that includes the right to gender and sex self-determination.
kolekTIRV (ex-Trans Aid) was formed in 2012 to support the needs of the community. It is the first organisation in Croatia dealing specifically with the rights of trans and intersex persons. Last year, they succeeded in securing a first paid position for the intersex coordinator of the intersex project and a stable intersex program. They engage in community support with online counseling, and with hosting the 2019 European Intersex Community Event and Conference. They are also involved in awareness–raising with training in high schools and social media campaigns with original content and translations from OII Europe content. They are also helping researching the hospitals practices on intersex children in Croatia.
Based in East London, Social, Health and Empowerment Feminist Collective of Transgender Women of Africa (S.H.E.) was formed in 2010 to address the gender imbalance in the African trans movement, build the leadership of trans women, and work for greater inclusion of trans women and their issues in African women’s and feminist movements at the local, national and regional levels.
Based in East London, Social, Health and Empowerment Feminist Collective of Transgender Women of Africa (S.H.E.) was formed in 2010 to address the gender imbalance in the African trans movement, build the leadership of trans women, and work for greater inclusion of trans women and their issues in African women’s and feminist movements at the local, national and regional levels. At the local level, S.H.E. works with trans women in peri-urban informal settlements and township communities, predominantly in the Eastern Cape Province, where they run support groups and ‘co-powerment’ programs. At the national level, they collaborate with women’s movements to raise issues of violence against trans women, and with trans and intersex organizations to advance campaigns for access to health care. At the continental level, they build the capacity of trans and women’s rights organizations. They held the first African Transformative Feminist Leadership Institute, which brought together 14 transgender women activists from 8 countries working to advance a feminist agenda for trans women on the African continent, starting with the release of the “African Transfeminist Charter.” Check out our 2018 International Trans Day of Visibility video featuring an interview with S.H.E. Founder Leigh Ann Van Der Werwe:
The Rainbow Identity Association is a trans and intersex-led organization working to build strong, active and resilient transgender and intersex communities in Botswana and improve their lived realities.
Rainbow Identity Association was formed in 2008 to address challenges faced by trans and intersex communities in Botswana. They are facilitating referrals for health care focusing on mental health specialists and counsellors and for psychosocial support, sexual and reproductive health care, rehabilitation centres for drug and alcohol abuse; they are also disseminating information and providing training relating to HIV and STIs including information on HIV and STI prevention, treatment, care and support, disseminating HIV barrier products specifically geared towards the needs of transgender and intersex bodies. They provide legal referral assistance by linking up the persons who need legal advice or representation relating to the protection and promotion of their gender identity and expression rights. They promote advocacy through workshops for community organisers, activists, police, health workers, politicians, and other leaders, and information sessions for transgender and intersex people outlining their human rights. They are working in advancing trans and intersex issues in civic and legal platforms. During covid-19 they organized a webinar on the impact of the pandemic on trans and intersex people.
