After the Intersex Resolution was passed last year, the Office of the High Commissioner of the United Nations for Human Rights asked for submissions addressing the root causes for stigma, discrimination and violence against intersex people. We focused our response in one of the oldest, more pervasive and more dangerous of those root causes: pathologization.
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The American Journal of Bioethics has published a global bioethics consensus statement, led by researchers at the University of Oxford’s Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and with contributions made by more than 150 international experts from more than 24 countries, including IHRA’s own Dr Morgan Carpenter and Mauro Cabral Grinspan.
We celebrate today the publication of the groundbreaking article titled “Perspectives on conducting “sex-normalising” intersex surgeries conducted in infancy: a systematic review”.
The United Nations made a historic move to protect the human rights of intersex persons, 35 civil society organisations said today, as the Human Rights Council adopted its first-ever resolution specifically addressing discrimination, violence, and harmful practices against persons with innate variations in sex characteristics.
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has published an essential new background note on human rights violations against intersex people.
