The importance of intersex awareness day is that it’s an opportunity to educate the public and raise awareness of intersex persons. By raising awareness of the experiences of people within the intersex spectrum, we can help people better understand the kinds of challenges that they may face and how we can support and respect them.
In improving the wellbeing of intersex people, it is important to recognize the history and the challenges faced by the community.
International nonbinary week is observed each year starting on the Sunday or Monday preceding International Non-Binary People’s Day on 14th July, and is aimed at raising awareness and organizing around the issues faced by nonbinary people around the world. To commemorate the week, Jinsiangu hosted it’s first ever ITGNC ball, Black Enby Magic, on …
Jinsiangu Kenya held a series of refresher trainings from its previous paralegal & advocacy trainings held at Jinsiangu offices in June last year, the aim of the refresher trainings were to strengthen the skills and knowledge of the topics covered during the initial trainings as well as share the experiences of cases the trainees have handled since the primary training .The objectives of the trainings were to assess what networks the trainees had made one year after the initial trainings ,the gaps ,resources they have at their own disposal at an organizational level to handle cases and legal issues that affect ITGNC community members and to draw a way forward in handling capacity of the programme.
In attendance of the training was a representative from Nairobi Metropolitan Service (NMS),Kenya National AIDS and STI control program (NASCOP) and Amka Africa Justice Initiative who were the main and co facilitators of the training.
For an effective paralegal programme, a hot spot mapping exercise for size estimation of Trans & Gender-Non-Conforming communities is to be conducted that would help scale up the paralegal and a peer educator programme for the community.
ey populations are people who inject drugs, men who have sex with men, transgender persons, sex workers and prisoners. Around the world, key populations face much higher rates of HIV and AIDS than the general population and are most at risk for contracting HIV
Key populations experience both increased impact from one or more …
Such minorities cannot wait until there is a policy and legislative framework in place, to get recourse to secure their dignity guaranteed under the Constitution…
COURT DOCUMENT : CIVIL APPEAL NO. 355 OF 2014
