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This booklet explores the laws and policies that could affect the rights of transgender persons in ten Southern African countries: Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The booklet focuses on laws and policies in four thematic areas: legal recognition, employment laws, sexual and reproductive health, and the unlawful application of laws and harassment of transgender persons by police officials during arbitrary arrests.
The aim of the booklet is to:
Emphasise that transgender persons are human beings and that human rights apply universally and equally to all persons regardless of their gender identity, and that transgender persons are fully entitled to be protected and treated with dignity and respect.
Provide transgender persons, human rights activists and human rights organisations, with an easy guide on the laws and policies in their own countries which may potentially affect their rights and interests.
Provide transgender persons, human rights activists and human rights organisations, with a basis upon which they can assert their basic fundamental human rights.
Author: A. Meerkotter (ed)
ISBN: 978-0-620-72927-7
Publisher: Southern Africa Litigation Centre
Year of Publication: 2016
Classification Number: 306.76 MEE
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