SHE & Rights LIVE #WD2026: Session 12: Transgender rights in anti-rights era

SHE & Rights LIVE at the Women Deliver Conference 2026 - sessions are being hosted at D03 Exhibition Space in Narrm (Melbourne), Australia. All sessions are hybrid, live-streamed and host online and onsite speakers and participants including media.


Session-12: Transgender rights in anti-rights era


29th April, 2pm Melbourne

Speakers:
  • Hua Boonyapisomparn, International Trans Fund Program Officer for South, East, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific; and founding member of Thai Transgender Alliance (Thai TGA), and first coordinator of the Asia-Pacific Transgender Network (APTN)
  • Simran Shaikh Bharuch, noted transgender rights advocate, India
  • Joey Joleen Mataele, Founder of Tonga Leitis Association, Tonga
  • Shobha Shukla, Executive Director, CNS and Coordinator, SHE & Rights

Please be welcome:
  • Onsite: D03 Exhibition Space, Women Deliver Conference, Narrm (Melbourne), Australia

CNS is the official media partner of Women Deliver Conference 2026.


Be welcome to meet onsite Shobha Shukla along with Kalpana Acharya (Editor-in-Chief of Health TV Online Nepal and Host, Health First Podcast), Jasper Davis and Saher Siddiqui.

This SHE & Rights LIVE session @ WD2026 is co-hosted by Global Center for Health Diplomacy and Inclusion (CeHDI) and CNS with partners like Women Deliver Conference 2026, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW), Asia Pacific Media Alliance for Health, Gender and Development Justice (APCAT Media) and Health TV Online Nepal.

Thanks

Team CNS and SHE & Rights