ECOM: New Name, New Opportunities!
“ECOM – Eurasian Coalition on Health, Rights, Gender and Sexual Diversity.” This will be the full name of the Coalition in...
Hepatitis B and С among MSM in EECA region
28 July 2019 is World Hepatitis Day. 325 million people worldwide are infected with viral hepatitis B or C, and 1.4...
Officials continue to use their power to discriminate against LGBT people
The Eurasian Coalition on Male Health (ECOM) publishes the “Regional report on violations of the right to health of gay men,...
Call for Proposals: Small Grants for Trans Initiatives 2019
Eurasian Coalition on Male Health – ECOM opens a Call for Proposals from LGBTQ community-based organizations and unregistered initiative groups for...
Small Grants 2019: Call for Proposals for LGBT organizations and groups from Central Asia and Southern Caucasus
Eurasian Coalition on Male Health – ECOM opens a Call for Proposals from LGBTQ community-based organizations and unregistered initiative groups for...
The Campaign “Chase Stigma, Not People!” is Launched in EECA
The stigmatizing and discriminatory social and political environment in CEECA countries leads to self-stigma among LGBT people, strengthens barriers to accessing...
Activists from EECA Countries Learned How to Protect the Right to Health
Participants of an ECOM training on legal literacy and activism were able to develop their skills on using international legal mechanisms...
ECOM’s Steering Committee Holds Latest Meeting
In April 2019, ECOM’s Steering Committee held its latest in-person meeting. The agenda of the meeting addressed a wide range of...
ECOM publishes National Reports on Human Rights Violations among LGBTQ
ECOM publishes National Reports on Human Rights Violations among LGBTQ people in Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, and North Macedonia in 2018....
Join in Survey to choose important topic for 3rd Regional Consultation
The Eurasian Coalition on Male Health (ECOM) started preparations for the 3rd Regional Consultation on HIV among MSM and Trans People...
ActivEast team discussed regional and national media campaigns for gay and other MSM and trans people
Activists from Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Russia, Ukraine and Moldova discussed the design of regional and national media campaigns to...
ECOM presents new Manual on Monitoring and Documentation of LGBTQ Human Rights Violations
According to data obtained between 2015 and 2018, the HIV epidemic continues to develop among MSM and trans people in the...
Getting to know the Civil Society and Eastern Europe and Central Asia Delegations to the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. An Information note for Eastern Europe and Central Asia
The Info Note is targeted on the representatives of the civil society and affected communities from EECA region but the information...
UN Human Rights Committee Makes Important SOGI-Related Observations to Estonia
The United Nations Human Rights Committee is a UN body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the International Covenant on...
Community leaders learned to promote MSMIT international manual
On Friday, March 22, Eurasian Coalition on Male Health (ECOM) — with the support of UNFPA regional office — finished the first...
UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights reviewed Estonia and Kazakhstan
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) is the body of 18 independent experts that monitors implementation of the...
The new Antidiscrimination Law which explicitly includes SOGI as discriminatory ground finally adopted in North Macedonia
The parliament of North Macedonia adopted on Monday the law on the prevention and protection against discrimination after long debates between...
SOGI-related highlights at Human Rights Committee review on Estonia
On 4-5 March the Republic of Estonia is under review of UN Human Rights Committee for the 4th time. Here is...