Pakistan’s first trans lawyer sees big success
Nisha Rao, 28, is Pakistan’s first transgender lawyer after she went from begging on the streets to gaining her law license earlier this year and joining the Karachi Bar Association.
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New project building safe, sanitary toilets for Pakistan’s trans community
The Saaf Bath project is a new campaign in Karachi, Pakistan which is building privately managed toilets out of old shipping containers, with the aim of providing safe and sanitary facilities for trans people, women and the disabled.
Pakistan district proposes greater support for the trans community
On Saturday October 24, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Social Welfare Department – based in Peshawar, the capital of the Pakistani province – laid out new policies to increase protections for the area’s transgender community.
Trans activist shot dead in Pakistan
Trans woman and activist Gul Panra was murdered in Peshawar city on Wednesday 9 September.