Contributor:Deepak TripathiCommitted Communities Development Trust (CCDT), India My name is Deepak Tripathi, from India, short name Deepak, which is a Hindi word which means ‘source…
VanessJune 29, 2020
Contributor:APCOM Secretariat FACTS: (The background of this story) The COVID-19 pandemic had led governments of several countries impose lockdowns to prevent the spread of the…
VanessJune 22, 2020
Gopi Shankar is the founder of Srishti Madurai, a student collective for gender and sexual minorities. Ze is rooted in indigenous traditions of spirituality. Ze…
VanessMay 15, 2020
Six countries in South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) have established a national human rights institution (NHRI), all of which include…
Safir SoeparnaFebruary 19, 2017
As a transgender person, Jaisy* is used to harassment but the time she spent in prison in Kerala, India stands out due to the physical…
ApcomMay 10, 2016
Lotus Integrated AIDS Awareness Sangram (LOTUS) is an organization based in Tamil Nadu, India, that blossomed out of a pre-existing social network of ‘kothis’ –…
ApcomApril 11, 2016
“I still remember the day in 2014 when I met with senior Kerala government officials,” recalls Dr Arumugam Vijayaraman, Deputy Director, Voluntary Health Services (VHS)…
ApcomMarch 22, 2016
Early last year, in a progressive move, the Indian Supreme Court ruled to legally recognise the third gender. The government was ordered to provide transgender…
ApcomDecember 23, 2015
In September 2014, APCOM conducted the region’s pioneer dialogue exploring the roll out of PrEP in Asia and the Pacific called PrEParing Asia. PrEP stands for…
ApcomDecember 23, 2015
