English Bahasa On 27 January 2018, approximately 10 beauty salons in North Aceh, Indonesia became subject to raids and 12 transgender women were arrested. They were forced to cut and shave their hair, stripped of their clothes, verbally harassed, and subjected to physical and mental therapies in an attempt to make them more “masculine”. On the pretenses of protecting public morals, the women were subjected to cruel, inhumane...

Last December, lesbian, bisexual, trans women, trans men, and queer (LBTQ) activsts met during the ILGA Asia Conference to claim their space and assert that the fight for  the human rights of all women is not over. Even in an advocacy where diversity and inclusion are the main messages, not all have been welcomed: not all diversities are accepted, and inclusion somehow comes at the cost of excluding others. Under the rainbow flag, women...