Outsider Citizen : Landscape Analysis of the Human Rights of Sex Workers and LGBTI People in Ethiopia 2014-2015

R. Odoyo

This study was conducted with the aim of exploring the lived realities of the LGBTI and Sex Worker communities in Ethiopia. The study was conducted with Addis Ababa, being the capital of Ethiopia, as the focal point. The objectives of the study included: Exploring the presence of an LGBTI, GNC and Sex Worker communities in Ethiopia; ? Conducting a needs assessment of the LGBTI, GNC and Sex Worker communities in Ethiopia; ? Identifying opportunities for support; ? Investigating the existence or not of a LGBTI, GNC and SW movements and what movement building might look like. The first visit to Ethiopia was not very productive owing to lack of access to the understandably