Working group news
March 31, 2025
Voices That Must Be Heard: Trans Day of Visibility
Every year, on March 31, the world celebrates Trans Day of Visibility. This day is an important reminder of how...
November 20, 2024
Transgender Day of Remembrance: ECOM Continues to Fight for Rights and Safety of Trans Community
On November 20, the world community celebrates the International Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR). This day was established in 1999...
July 23, 2024
ECOM Presents TikTok Campaign “We Are Alike” at AIDS 2024
The 25th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2024) is taking place in Munich from 22 to 26 July 2024. Today, on...
May 23, 2024
ECOM Signs International Memorandum of Cooperation
ECOM signed a Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation with the School of Social Sciences and Technology of the Technical University...
March 31, 2024
Trans Day of Visibility: Every Voice Must Be Heard
Every year on March 31st, we celebrate International Trans Day of Visibility, marking the resilience and courage of trans and...
February 5, 2024
Russia suspends implementation of ICD-11: a threat to healthcare and the rights of the trans community
On January 30, the government of the Russian Federation issued a decree suspending the implementation of the International Classification of...
December 14, 2023
Results of the 1st (Sub) Regional Consultation on PrEP among MSM and Trans People in Central Asia
On November 21–22, the 1st (Sub) Regional Consultation on PrEP among MSM and trans people in Central Asia was held...
December 11, 2023
Trans*Map in EECA: Final Meeting Held Within the Project
5 countries, 9 cities, more than 2.5 thousand trans people who received services or attended educational events, a media campaign...
November 20, 2023
Transgender Day of Remembrance
November 20 is Transgender Day of Remembrance for trans people killed in acts of hate-based violence. It aims to raise...
October 20, 2023
Videos on trans people “go viral” on TikTok: Second part of the “We are alike” campaign gets 5 million views
The second part of the “We are alike” campaign, which ECOM launched in mid-August of this year, finished with some...
July 27, 2023
Transphobic Law Adopted in Russia
On July 14, 2023, the law prohibiting transgender transition was adopted unanimously by all the deputies in the third and...
June 8, 2023
Meeting of Trans People Working Group Was Held in Georgia
At the end of May, a meeting of Trans People Working Group (TPWG) on HIV and Sexual Health in EECA...
May 31, 2023
ECOM Conducts Training for Trainers on Advocacy for Trans People's Rights
ECOM continues to develop the capacity and expertise of the LGBT community in the field of human rights advocacy. Participants...
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...
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...
September 29, 2022
WPATH Releases the 8th Version of the Standards of Care for Transgender and Gender Diverse People
We are pleased to announce that the new Standards of Care for transgender people have been released by the World...
September 5, 2022
ECOM Holds a Meeting of the Regional Working Group of Trans* People
In August, a meeting of the Regional Working Group of Trans* People was held, which was organized with the financial...
July 28, 2022
A Study Among Transgender Individuals Held in Kyrgyzstan — The First of Its Kind in Central Asia
The Republican AIDS Center of the Kyrgyz Republic published the results of a formative assessment conducted among transgender people. ECOM...
July 26, 2022
ECOM Conducts the First Study in the EECA Region on the Level of Internalized Transphobia
Internalized transphobia still remains a “gray area” for research in the post-Soviet space. In 2021, ECOM conducted the first study...
May 20, 2022
Depathologization of Transgenderness: Changes in the ICD-11
On April 26, ECOM organized the first round table discussion in the region of Eastern Europe and Central Asia on...
March 31, 2022
March 31 – Day of Visibility of Transgender People
In anticipation of this day, from March 1, 2022, ECOM launched a media campaign “Похоже, мы похожи” (wordplay: “It looks...
March 24, 2022
Let's find common ground together! ECOM launched a unique media campaign about trans* people
Within the framework of the “Trans*Map in EECA” project, the Eurasian Coalition on Health, Rights, Gender and Sexual Diversity launched...
July 30, 2021
Training Fundraising and its specitificies for NGO held in Erevan
On July 28-29, 2021, a two-day training on “Fundraising and its specificities for non-governmental organizations” was held in Yerevan. The...
July 14, 2020
Trans* Map in EECA – new project by trans* people for trans* people
ECOM is launching a three-year project aimed at strengthening the role and participation of trans* people in the HIV response...
Contacts
For questions about the work of the WGT, please contact Elena Herman, elena@ecom.ngo
