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Unlike most transgender people, Tangarr discovered somewhat later in life that his gender identity didn't match his sex assigned at birth. An AWID member since 2016, he told us his story: his relatively happy childhood, his sex change and his work as an activist.

Linda Nibango is a feminist journalist based in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and an AWID member since May 2015. She told us about her vision for this year’s International Women’s Day, the impact of online journalism, the right to freedom of expression, and the campaign to #FreeRebekaKavugho.

AWID institutional member since 2014, SZEXE was established by predominantly street-based Roma sex workers and their allies who joined together to protest the introduction of a law regulating sex work.

To help change some of the existent inequalities in accessing justice, GALA, an association of jurists, provides free legal aid and public interest advocacy to those who most need it, specifically in Global South countries.

As a Métis woman from a “very poor background”, Menke faced numerous obstacles, seeing her biggest challenge as “simply being a woman, and in certain cases being an aboriginal woman”.

Isaac Oriafo Ejakhegbe works focuses his work on gender equality, climate change, and health promotion, including maternal and child health. He is a Women Deliver Young Leader and is currently working to advocate for women’s reproductive health and social well-being.

For over twenty years, the wars affecting eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been at the root of massive human rights violations – particularly the rights of women, girls and children – including rape and other forms of violence against women and girls. 

Javeria Ayaz Malik is a human rights activist, and a communications and security expert. In her role she coordinates the organisation’s safety and security policy and establishes external relationships with global security networks.

Since 1975, the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) has worked nationally and internationally for the decriminalisation of sex work and towards safer working conditions for sex workers.

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