We hope that you understand the urgency that is needed to help these individuals – these victims of abuse – through raising our own view and respect of the transvestite in Barazil and their right to be prtected against exploaitation and thier right to equality as human beings . That is our goal . That [...]
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Looking for your help !!!
Posted in organization, tagged abuse, aids, assistance, brazil, desperation, discrimination, drug, educational, exploration, fear, government organizations, help, hiv, human, human rights, human trafficking, humiliation, lack of education, low self-esteem, NGOs, ong, org, organization, projects, prostitutes, protection, slavery, society, travestis on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We need your help !!
Posted in organization on September 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The term transvestite is saturated with prejudiced images and rarely does any media present a positive image of these individuals . We can easily say that they are stigmatized in general and in no place is this worse than in Brazil.
The transvestite only wants what any other free human being wants , the rights allowed to any free citizen. They want [...]
Day to Day
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What we know today as a TRAVESTI or TRANSVESTITE is something that changes in meaning depending on the context. These contexts can be historical as well as cultural. All to commonly they the context in which these individuals are discussed is nevernever far from the discussion of prejudice, intolerance, substance abuse [...]
Join us for a better world
Posted in organization, tagged abuse, aids, assistance, brazil, desperation, discrimination, drug, educational, exploration, fear, government organizations, help, hiv, human, human rights, human trafficking, humiliation, lack of education, low self-esteem, NGOs, ong, org, projects, prostitutes, protection, slavery, society, travestis on July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Transvestites come from all walks of life, income brackets, intelligence and cultures. It’s quite possible that
someone you know is either.
Transvestitism is primarily a male practice. Female transvestites are much fewer in number. This is probably because it is much more
acceptible in our society for a woman to do male apparel than it is for [...]
Help us make the difference
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Considered by many in society as “freaks of nature” the travestis’ underworld displays certain characteristics of primitive social movements. Denied the basic human, civil and political rights enjoyed other citizens, their subculture is pre-political.
Bonded together by society’s rejection, their culture is ritualistic, with its own patois and rights of passage. Travestis often live in groups [...]
Hello world!
Posted in organization, tagged abuse, aids, assistance, brazil, desperation, discrimination, drug, educational, exploration, fear, government organizations, help, hiv, human, human rights, human trafficking, humiliation, lack of education, low self-esteem, NGOs, ong, org, projects, prostitutes, protection, slavery, society, travestis on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
SOS Dignity was conceived by International Lawyer, Criminologist, Photographer and Human Rights Activist, Barry Michael Wolfe, with the aim of retrieving the dignity of Brazil’s transvestites.
Travestis – people who were born men and present themselves as women – are the single most marginalized group in Brazil. Travestis are vulnerable to exploitation by clients, pimps and [...]
