The Universities of Huddersfield and Bologna will hold an Intersex Social Science: Activism, Human Rights, and Citizenship conference at the Department of Philosophy and Communication, University of Bologna, on 4-5 June 2018.
"From pink triangles to social acceptance?", a lecture organised by Sydney Health Ethics and ACON, with Dr Astrid Ley (Sachsenhausen), Justice Michael Kirby, Prof Jenni Millbank, and Morgan Carpenter.
The UN Human Rights Committee has made a powerful call to recognise the human rights of intersex people, including through ending irreversible medical treatment that is not absolutely medically necessary, and that takes place before a child can comprehend and provide informed consent.
OII Australia has submitted a shadow report to the UN Human Rights Committee, endorsed by the Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group Australia, Disabled People’s Organisations of Australia, National LGBTI Health Alliance, and People with Disability Australia.
A UN Treaty Body, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, has issued a recommendation to Australia on intersex human rights for the first time. The recommendation expresses concern about involuntary or coerced medical interventions.
An open access article published in the journal Reproductive Health Matters, on persistence of human rights violations despite rhetorics of change and inclusion.
Overnight, the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions has published an important guide to promoting and protecting human rights on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics.
On Friday, a side event was held at the UN Human Rights Council with intersex human rights defenders from five continents. Morgan Carpenter (OII Australia) moderated a panel featuring Julius Kaggwa (SIPD, Uganda), Hiker Chiu (Oii-Chinese, Taiwan), Kimberly Zieselman (AIC, US) and Dan Ghattas (OII Europe, Germany). The event was very kindly supported by ILGA and COC Netherlands.
In his opening address to the 30th Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, talked specifically about intersex people. Here's his statement.
We congratulate the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice on the launch of a world first intersex-focused philanthropic fund.
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