Jim Beaux
12-23-2008, 12:57 PM
( Cape Town, December 19, 2008 )- The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) and Gender DynamiX announced today the successful conclusion of their first ever African Strategy Workshop for transgender activists. Held in Cape Town, South Africa, the historic workshop brought together 15 activists from 9 East and Southern African countries—Burundi, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe—to address the very specific needs of transgender people on the African continent. It marked a key step in the process of defining and building the African transgender movement by African transgender people.
Full release at http://www.iglhrc.org/site/iglhrc/section.php?id=5&detail=912
Full release at http://www.iglhrc.org/site/iglhrc/section.php?id=5&detail=912