IDAHOTB DAHOT International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia

Transgender Europe’s Trans Murder Monitoring project reveals 226 killings of trans people in the last 12 months In total, since January 2008 the murders of 1,612 trans people have been reported The 16th International Transgender Day of Remembrance is being held on November 20th 2014: Since 1999 the Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), on which those trans people who have been victims of …

On November 20th, the world will be commemorating the Transgender Day of Remembrance. This Day exists since 1998 to honor the many friends from the Trans community who have fallen under transphobic hate crime, and to raise our voice against all forms of Transphobia This Day should be a reminder to all of us, that Trans people bear a disproportionate share …

PEOPLE with intersex variations are born with atypical physical sex characteristics. We face a range of health and human rights issues — and deep-seated stigma — caught between two contrasting visions of who and how we should be. On the one hand, this includes medical interventions in infancy and childhood that are explicitly intended to make intersex bodies conform to social norms for a specific sex or …

A photography competition could be a great way to encourage participation from the community and to change public attitudes. Activists from Myanmar told us more about how they organised their pioneering competition…

Inspired by human rights activists in Liberia, who organised for IDAHOT 2014, a Freedom Festival is a bundle of different expressive actions and events, which creates space for community-building, creativity and acceptance…