Rights
This category contains articles that are in the broadest sense related to the subject of rights including human rights, international law, case law, jurisprudence, legislation, and politics.
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There are several regional declarations around the world that have been written by intersex communities. The Malta Declaration broadly describes what the international intersex community wants to achieve. Regional intersex organizations in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America/Caribbean, and Oceania have added their own statements.
During this pandemic and now that many national governments have introduced intelligent lockdowns in Europe, NNID is asking for extra attention for the protection of intersex people.
How can you include sex diversity and intersex in your policy? And on what basis can you do so? It is often thought that ending the non-consensual, unnecessary medical treatments that are often performed on intersex children is the only thing intersex organisations work on. But in reality, sex diversity and intersex should be visible in many policy areas.
Interphobia is characterised by a dismissive attitude and negative feelings towards intersex and intersex people. Interphobia manifests itself as contempt, prejudice, aversion, hatred or antipathy. This may lead to the discrimination of intersex people: excluding, insulting or treating intersex people differently. This article gives examples of interphobia and discrimination of intersex people.
The European Parliament passed an important resolution on intersex in 2019.
The Council of Europe, through two resolutions and a report by the Commissioner for Human Rights, has made a clear commitment to protecting the rights of intersex people.
National governments sometimes receive recommendations under CEDAW, CESCR, UPR, CRC and CaT on the situation of intersex people. But what is that process like? Why is the United Nations allowed to lecture national governments and how does that work?
The Malta Declaration. This statement was produced by 30 international intersex organizations at the Third International Intersex Forum held in Valletta, Malta between November 29 and December 1, 2013.
