Alesha
HRD
TransAction Alliance
Alesha was a transgender human rights defender and Coordinator of the TransAction Alliance, a group which works for the promotion and protection of the rights of the transgender community in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. On 25 May 2016, she died because of eight gunshot wounds received three days earlier in Peshawar.
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UPR Reports
Violations
Location
Pakistan is one of the most challenging countries in the region for human rights defenders, who face high risks including killing, arbitrary arrest and detention, abduction and kidnapping, surveillance, threats and judicial harassment. Many HRDs have had their offices attacked or burnt down and their colleagues killed.
