GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AFFECTS TRANSGENDER PEOPLE AND OTHER KEY POPULATIONS

November 22, 2017

Written by Hally Mahler, Project Director, LINKAGES, and Rose Wilcher, Director, Research Utilization, FHI 360 This blog post was first featured on the LINKAGES blog in November 2016. In 2015, a friend and colleague, Beyonce Karungi, wrote about what it is like to be a... Continue Reading

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Transgender day of remembrance: thoughts from a trans peer educator in Dominican Republic

November 20, 2017

Interviewee: Macarena Pérez, Transgender Peer Educator, Centro de Promoción y Solidaridad Humana (CEPROSH), Dominican Republic Interviewer: Betty Alvarez, Consultant, FHI 360 Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an annual observance on November 20th that honors the memory of lives lost in... Continue Reading

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WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT “REGGIE”: THE IMPORTANCE OF INTEGRATING LGBTQ MESSAGING WITH HIV INFORMATION

April 10, 2017

Written by Georgia Arnold, executive director and founder of the MTV Staying Alive Foundation, and executive producer of the award-winning “edutainment’ campaign, MTV Shuga. MTV Shuga is a 360 mass media campaign that uses the power of entertainment to generate... Continue Reading

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Commission on the Status of Women & Transgender Women

March 31, 2017

Written by Beyonce Karungi, Executive Director, Transgender Equality Uganda The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is the largest international gathering of governments and civil society dedicated to developing an agenda that promotes progress for women and girls. Each year, the UN brings... Continue Reading

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Key Population Hero: Addressing stigma and discrimination among LGBT people in Kenya

December 9, 2016

Written by Levis Nderitu, co-founder, Sullivan Reed Sullivan Reed is an organization in Nairobi, Kenya that specializes in the economic and social empowerment of LGBT people in Kenya, where homosexuality is criminalized and HIV prevalence is almost three times higher... Continue Reading

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Key Population Hero: I support TRANS rights, do you?

November 21, 2016

Written by Amitava Sarkar (preferred name – Amrita), Co-chair, IRGT “Please help, somebody please help!” Despite my shouting, my two friends and I drew no attention from passersby. We were surrounded by at least 10 men who were beginning to get... Continue Reading

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Trans lives matter: Advocating for the rights of young trans women in Kenya

August 12, 2016

Written by Alesandra Ogeta, Research and Advocacy Officer, Jinsiangu Organization I am living in a country that is quickly transforming into an open, democratic, and economically vibrant society. Despite the increasing freedoms in socio-economic and political spaces, the same cannot be... Continue Reading

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Commemorating the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia

May 27, 2016

Part 1 written by Rolande Lewis, Program Officer, LINKAGES Part 2 written by Irwin Iradukunda, Director of Programmes for Mouvement pour les Libertés Indivduelles (MOLI) and key population activist in Burundi Part 1 On Tuesday, May 17, The International Day... Continue Reading

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Key Population Heroes: A Bahamian Trans Woman’s Call to Action

March 31, 2016

Written by Alexus D'Marco, Founder of the DMARCO Foundation “To deny people their human rights is to deny them their humanity” - Nelson Mandela This quote has been a call to action for me. Over the past years of my life I... Continue Reading

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What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You

November 20, 2015

Photo caption: Ms. Popy is a hijra community leader in Bangladesh. In countries without strong trans-led organizations, the rates of violence against trans people are likely under-reported. Photo credit: Ian Taylor Written by Molly Goggin-Kehm, Technical Officer, LINKAGES “I didn’t want to leave... Continue Reading

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GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AFFECTS TRANSGENDER PEOPLE AND OTHER KEY POPULATIONS

Transgender day of remembrance: thoughts from a trans peer educator in Dominican Republic

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT “REGGIE”: THE IMPORTANCE OF INTEGRATING LGBTQ MESSAGING WITH HIV INFORMATION

Commission on the Status of Women & Transgender Women

Key Population Hero: Addressing stigma and discrimination among LGBT people in Kenya

Key Population Hero: I support TRANS rights, do you?

Trans lives matter: Advocating for the rights of young trans women in Kenya

Commemorating the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia

Key Population Heroes: A Bahamian Trans Woman’s Call to Action

What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You

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