The Word on Women - Mapping transgender rights to counter global discriminationBy Sebastian Rocca and Anna Kirey | Yesterday at 1:28 PM | Retrieved from the Internet on November 22, 2011 by SJ
Sebastian Rocca is executive director of human rights organisation ILGA; Anna Kirey is consultant of ILGA's Trans legal rights project
http://www.trust.org/trustlaw/blogs/the-word-on-women/mapping-transgender-rights-to-counter-global-discrimination
Painted legs are pictured during 'Regenbogenparade' (Rainbow Parade) in Vienna June 18, 2011. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and transsexual people attended the parade in the Austrian capital. REUTERS/Lisi NiesnerThe 13th International Transgender Day of Remembrance, held on Sunday, was a recurrence raising public awareness of hate crimes against trans people which far too often result in deaths.
According to the recent data published by the Trans Murder Monitoring Project (a project of Transgender Europe and Liminalis), over 200 trans people have been killed in the last 12 months worldwide. This is of course only the tip of the iceberg as many murders go unreported and many countries do not collect such data systematically.
