News of ECOM
June 1, 2023
Beyond Pride: Pride Month 2023
ECOM welcomes Pride Month by joining the world in celebrating diversity, equality and inclusion. Pride Month is an annual event observed in June to celebrate and support the LGBT community....
May 24, 2023
Call for proposal CEECA EMERGENCY SUPPORT FUND
Текс українською мовою доступний у додатку до цієї новини. EMERGENCY SUPPORT FUNDGrants Competition for Initiatives in CEECA—2023 ECOM — Eurasian Coalition on Health, Rights, Gender and Sexual Diversity in partnership...
May 11, 2023
Report on the Violations of LGBT People's Rights in Kyrgyzstan in 2022
ECOM continues to regularly assess violations of LGBT people’s rights in the countries of the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region. Below you will find an updated report on the...
May 5, 2023
The Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in Kyrgyzstan was dissolved
On April 28, at a meeting of the “Ata-Zhurt Kyrgyzstan” faction and the “Mekenchil” deputy group, Edil Baisalov, Deputy Head of the Cabinet of Ministers, announced the dissolution of the...
March 2, 2023
Trans women sex workers migrants became first victims of new Russian anti-LGBT “propaganda” law
Is there a new anti-LGBT propaganda law? In December 2022, the new draft legislation to further restrict freedom of expression for LGBT people came into force in Russia. This version...
February 10, 2023
Why Do Communities Need to Monitor Situation Concerning Their Lives? ECOM Shared Experience in Community-Led Monitoring in EECA
The ECOM team participated in the Regional Community Consultation on building consensus regarding approaches and priorities in community-led monitoring in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA). The event was held...
February 7, 2023
ECOM Conducts Analysis of National Legislation of Uzbekistan Related to LGBT Rights and HIV
Uzbekistan, while internationally declaring its openness and accessibility to information, including on human rights, remains one of the most closed countries in the world with an authoritarian government. And although...
January 13, 2023
New Study: Associations Between Punitive Policies and HIV among Gay Men and other Men who Have Sex with Men
Associations between punitive policies and legal barriers to consensual same-sex sexual acts and HIV among gay men and other men who have sex with men in sub-Saharan Africa: a multicountry,...
January 12, 2023
ECOM Conducts Needs Assessment of Members and Partners from Ukraine
Since February 24, 2022, when the Russian Federation started a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the needs and demands of our members and partners, as well as the LGBT community in...
December 15, 2022
ECOM Stands with Ukraine: 10 Months of War and Support
The war in Ukraine, whose active phase started on February 24, continues to this day. People are dying, the economy is in crisis, and LGBT activists are trying to do...
