severe beatings, torture, mutilation, castration, even sexual assault. They are also very likely to result in death. Transgender people seem to be even more vulnerable within this category”.3 At the global level, the Discrimination and violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity (A/HRC/29/23) report issued by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) also acknowledges that gender-based violence against trans people is often particularly brutal, and in some instances characterised by levels of cruelty exceeding that of other hate crimes. In line with the above policy developments and increasing attention to transphobic violence, TGEU has gradually been placing more emphasis on monitoring and reporting transphobic incidents in the form of discrimination, hate speech, and hate crimes. By working together with LGBT and trans groups and NGOs within the framework of its ProTrans and Eastern European Partnership Project (EEPP), TGEU facilitated the collection of violent cases in contexts where evidence is scarce and anecdotal, in order to improve public policies to prevent and tackle discrimination and violence against trans people. In the Eastern European Partnership Project (EEPP), trans rights collectives and NGOs joined the group of 5 ProTrans partner organisations that had been working with TGEU since 2014 on violence monitoring and related advocacy, namely from Hungary, Serbia, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, and Moldova.4 EEPP partners work in Germany, Georgia, Armenia, Russia, and Ukraine, and additional activities in Moldova have also been added within the EEPP project framework. During 2016, partners participated in various activities coordinated by TGEU. They monitored discriminatory and violent incidents in their communities, and entered them in TGEU’s online monitoring system after receiving training on violence monitoring in Berlin, Germany, in April 2016, contributed to the development of campaign materials together with TGEU on the Transgender Day of Remembrance 3 OSCE/ ODIHR (2007) Hate Crimes in the OSCE Region: Incidents and Responses; Annual report for 2006; Warsaw: OSCE/ ODIHR, p. 53f. 4 See more about the project: http://tgeu.org/pro-trans/