News of ECOM
April 25, 2023
Report on Violations of LGBT People's Rights in Kazakhstan in 2022
ECOM annually conducts an analysis of violations of LGBT people’s rights in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Based on this analysis, we draw up a report with...
March 31, 2023
Transgender Day of Visibility: war through the eyes of trans people
March 31 is International Transgender Day of Visibility, and on this day we should all reflect and give a voice to people whose lives are made more difficult by intolerance...
December 22, 2022
Results of Elections: New Faces in Steering Committee and Ethics Committee
This year, the members of ECOM’s Steering Committee completed their term of office after heading the coalition for three years. After the elections by ECOM members, we are ready to...
September 6, 2022
Queer Summer: ECOM Projects That Help Break Stigma
On the occasion of the International Day against Homo-, Bi- and Transphobia, we launched a call for applications from ECOM partners and members to conduct information and media campaigns. Each...
July 20, 2022
ECOM Conducted a Training Session on Monitoring and Documenting Human Rights Violations
At the end of June, a training session was held on monitoring and documenting human rights violations of LGBT people. ECOM was able to train 18 activists from 5 countries...
July 13, 2022
The First PrEP Resource Center in Central Asia: Advantages and Principles of Work
In April this year, in Almaty was launched the Resource Center (RC) for pre-exposure prophylaxis of HIV (PrEP), which is a platform to exchange experience and transfer best practices between...
April 18, 2022
ECOM launches PrEP Resource Center in Central Asia
ECOM is strengthening advocacy for access to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) services in Central Asia. In April, a resource center for PrEP was launched in Almaty, which will become a...
September 1, 2021
ECOM technical assistance provision within the Global Fund’s CRG TA program: example from Kazakhstan (2019 – 2020)
In December 2019, the Kazakhstan Union of PLWH decided to seek support from the Global Fund’s Community, Rights and Gender (CRG) Technical Assistance (TA) Programme implemented within the Global Fund Strategic Initiative, in...
June 1, 2021
When is Pride Month 2021?
Pride Month is celebrated every June as a tribute to those who were involved in the Stonewall Riots. We’re getting ready to dust off our rainbow flags, douse ourselves in...
May 27, 2021
ECOM Report on Rights Violations: No significant improvements in the respect of LGBT rights in EECA countries!
ECOM is pleased to present its Regional report on violations of the right to health of gay and other MSM and trans* people in the EECA region for 2020. In...
