…the Australian government, based on clear evidence put to them by Intersex Human Rights Australia (IHRA), in joint NGO submissions, and NHRI submissions. Similar concluding observations were published by CEDAW in July 2018 and the Human Rights Committee in December 2017. In June 2017, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights also expressed concern with involuntary or coerced medical interventions. Background IHRA has provided evidence…
…the world, calling on the Human Rights Council to investigate and address human rights violations and abuses against intersex persons. https://twitter.com/MFA_Austria/status/1311577761119600640 Advocates from around the world worked with colleagues in ILGA World in Geneva to support this work. The joint statement Watch delivery of the statement at 15:50: Video link The text of the joint statement reads as follows: 45th Human Rights Council Genera…
…terilisation of intersex ppl is a fundamental breach – @timwilsoncomau @AusHuman*]}*Rights #SOGII — OII Australia (@oiiaustralia) June 10, 2015 We note that, while this report went to press, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Council of Europe’s Human Rights Commissioner have both called for an end to unnecessary forced medical interventions on intersex people. Morgan Carpenter comments: This report provides a firm basis f…
…x people too. We welcome the resolution and hope it will be adopted by the Human Rights Council. Statement on human rights violations Morgan Carpenter prepared a two minute statement to bring the attention of the Human Rights Council to human rights abuses affecting people with intersex variations. Unfortunately, timings didn’t work out for Morgan to deliver this personally, however André du Plessis of ILGA kindly delivered this statement on 22 Se…
…tes and supporting information. Our call for action on intersex health and human rights in NSW Enact legislation to protect the human rights of people with innate variations of sex characteristics in medical settings, including the provision of effective rights-based oversight. Provide resourcing for peer and family support and advocacy services for people with innate variations of sex characteristics and our families, including a dedicated helpli…
…the High Commissioner for Human Rights has published a background note on human rights violations against intersex people. The UN Human Rights Office has issued a new Background Note on Human Rights Violations against Intersex People, which has been developed as a follow-up to various initiatives by the Office, UN agencies and regional human rights mechanisms including: the Intersex Expert meeting held in 2015, public education awareness campaign…
…e event exclusively focused on intersex issues, titled Intersex People and Human Rights: Violations, Voices and Visions. The event, on 11 March, was co-sponsored by ARC International, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, El Consorcio Latinoamericano de Trabajo sobre Intersexualidad, Global Action for Trans* Equality (GATE), International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA), IntersexUK, Organisation Intersex International (OII…
…uality, Martin Foley details the government’s commitment to protecting the human rights of intersex people in healthcare, prohibiting deferrable medical interventions without personal consent. The reforms will also increase awareness of innate variations of sex characteristics, develop new resources, and support intersex health and wellbeing services. These will reflect basic principles of human rights, self-determination, holistic care, person-ce…
…at Morgan Carpenter spoke on intersex health and human rights at the LGBTI Human Rights in the Commonwealth event in Glasgow, Scotland on 18 July, at the kind invitation of the Equality Network and Kaleidoscope Trust. Much of the Commonwealth however is not a good place to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex. Of the 53 member countries of the Commonwealth, 42 criminalise their LGB citizens, and trans and intersex rights also vary dr…
…on SOGI and intersex issues. 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. The guide was written by Chris Sidoti and Jack Byrne. The Australian Human Rights Commission is a member of the Asia Pacific Forum, and Morgan Carpenter, co-chair of OII Australia, was a member of th…
…tal delays (Schneuer and others 2018). This is the issue that the intersex human rights movement was founded to tackle (see for example, Briffa 2004), and it remains our most intractable issue. Clinical claims and attempts at self-regulation have failed (Carpenter 2018d). Read a 2016 statement on ending violence and harmful practices on intersex people by UN and regional human rights institutions → UN and regional human rights institutions, like i…
…ons highlight the many ways in which current medical practices violate our human rights. 25. The Committee is concerned that infants and children born with intersex variations are sometimes subject to irreversible and invasive medical interventions for purposes of gender assignment, which are often based on stereotyped gender roles and are performed before they are able to provide fully informed and free consent (arts. 3, 7, 9, 17, 24 and 26). 26….
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