Gabi Calleja
Gabi Calleja is an LGBTIQ rights activist in Malta.
She read for a Masters in Youth and Community Studies at the University of Malta. As of 2010, she is chairwoman of the Malta Gay Rights Movement. As of 2014, she is co-chair of the Executive Board of ILGA Europe, a lesbian and gay advocacy group. In 2014 she spoke publicly in favor of Denmark's removing a law which had required transgender people to undergo sterilization before they were legally allowed to change their gender.
In addition to her work on gay rights, she is also a senior executive in the public sector in Malta, and has worked in the fields of teaching, drug prevention, training, community development, fundraising, and project management. In 2005, the “School Attendance Improvement” Report, a review of absenteeism from school in Malta, was published; she had been part of the group appointed to write it.
She received a 2012 International Women of Courage award.
