Special Projects

This year, APTN created a campaign for Trans Awareness Week at 15-19 November 2021. APTN also released a joint statement “Together, We Fight!” collaborating with Transgender Europe (TGEU) and its partners & networks. Let’s read our campaigns below: Trans Day of Remembrance 2021 Read the Joint Statement for Trans Day of Remembrance 2021As we mark […]

Over the next five weeks, we will present our findings from our and our partner’s work which demonstrate an urgent need to guarantee the inclusion of transgender and gender non conforming people in efforts to fight COVID-19 and its effects.

To mark Zero Discrimination Day, the Asia Pacific Transgender Network (APTN) is launching its new report, The Cost of Stigma: Understanding and Addressing Health Implications of Transphobia and Discrimination on Transgender and Gender Diverse People

#HumanRightsWeek presents us with an opportunity to share how we have been working alongside our country partners and trans focal points in the region to support the transgender and gender non conforming community and closely monitor the evolving situation presented by COVID-19. Over the next week we present our findings from our work over the last ten months which demonstrate an urgent need to guarantee the inclusion of transgender and gender non conforming people in efforts to #RecoverBetter from COVID-19 and more broadly. We call on the governments, our development and non development partners and the public, to #StandupforHumanRights and fulfill the promise of Agenda 2030 and the SDGs to ensure no one is left behind.

The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented human crisis that is claiming lives, destroying livelihoods and disrupting economies across the world. With the support of UNAIDS, the Asia Pacific Transgender Network (APTN) and Youth LEAD have worked together to increase the visibility and voices of trans and gender diverse youth leaders throughout Asia and the Pacific

Please join us as we welcome our team of 2020 Amplifying Trans Advocacy Fellows. APTN’s Amplifying Trans Advocacy Fellowship integrates capacity building, seed funding, and technical assistance to enable trans human rights defenders from Asia and the Pacific to advance trans rights using international human rights accountability mechanisms.

Public campaigning through engagement with traditional, online, and social media has proved to be a powerful tool to increase awareness and visibility of lived experiences of LGBTI people, to shift the narratives around SOGIESC rights issues in both public and political realms, and to amplify LGBTI advocates’ call for action for social change.

The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is now a pandemic that is changing our world and our lives rapidly. The Asia Pacific Transgender Network has been closely monitoring the fast-evolving developments of COVID-19 and thinking about how it is affecting the lives of the communities, and the critical work that you do. We are touched by the love, care and resilience that members of this community have shown over the last weeks.