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Organisation Intersex International Europe

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          • Legal ToolkitProtecting Intersex People in Europe: A toolkit for law and policy makers
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Support of Intersex People From Ukraine

OII Europe підтримує інтерсекс-людей з України, тих котрі виїхали з України та тих які зараз перебувають в Україні. >>

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Welcome to OII Europe!

OII Europe (Organisation Intersex International Europe) is the umbrella organisation of European human rights based and intersex-led organisations.

Find out more about our work here:
About OII Europe

Resources

We offer a range of informational materials on intersex ready to read online or for download, such as toolkits (for allies, parents, and for law and policy makers), flyer, infographics, or specific topic pages.

Resources

Demands

We are part of the growing global intersex community. Over the last decade intersex people around the world have formulated strong and clear demands for their human rights of bodily integrity and self-determination.

Demands
participants of the OII Europe Community Event in Zagreb 2019

Community

If you an intersex person feel free to reach out to us. We have member organisations in many European countries and speak many languages. Also, check our multilingual community website with basic information on intersex in 30 languages:

Intervisibility.eu

Annual Good Practice Map

The OII Europe Good Practice Map features good practice examples of positive change for intersex people within Europe. From legislation that improves the lives of intersex persons to funding opportunities for intersex-led human rights organisations the map covers a range of areas.

Good Practice Maps

Please visit our Campaign page

On the OII Europe Campaign website you will find our most recent Intersex Awarenes Weeks campaigns, including this year’s focus on Intersex Seniors.

Visit the Campaign Site

OII Europe Publications

A selection of our toolkits and our Covid-19 Report


Supporting your intersex child – A parents’ toolkit

Is it a boy or a girl? This is the question that is asked the world over when someone gives birth. Many parents will answer that question without much thought. But for a significant number the answer will be more complex.

Parents Toolkit (English)
cover covid-19 survey report - download the report here

Covid-19 Report 2020

Our survey report ”Covid-19. A report on the situation of intersex people in Europe and Central Asia” is an interex-led survey and the first one in Europe and Central Asia to specifically focus on the impact of Covid-19 on intersex individuals.

Covid-19 Report

Intersex Refugees & Asylum Seekers – Flyer

Our new flyer highlights specific needs of intersex refugees and asylum seekers and provides a list of recommendations what current migration policies should do.

Flyer Page

Protecting Intersex People in Europe: A toolkit for law and policy makers

The toolkit describes the areas of life in which intersex people are most vulnerable to violations on the basis of their sex characteristics, and provides detailed guidance on what to do to minimise or eliminate these violations.

Legal Toolkit (English)

toolkit standing up for the human rights of intersex people - how can you help

Standing up for the human rights of intersex people – how can you help?

Are you a policy maker, a health professional, a human rights defender, a teacher? We can all play a role to better respect, protect and promote the human rights of intersex people. Learn, how you can become a great intersex ally.

Allies Toolkit (English)



Dedicated topic pages

A selection of our growing topic section


Intersex & Sports

On February 25th, 2021 South African athlete Caster Semenya filed an application to the European Court of Human Rights to fight for dignity, equality, and the human rights of women in sports. She challenges the demeaning and intrusive regulations implemented by the World Athletics in 2018 that discriminate and prohibit some women, including women born with variations of sex characteristics, to participate in international competitions.
READ MORE…


Education

Intersex youth deserve an education where they can develop their full potential, safe & free from harassment & discrimination, and that represents them in an affirmative, positive & non-stigmatizing manner.
READ MORE…


Intersex Refugees & Asylum Seekers

For many intersex refugees other or additional reasons for persecution and discrimination can be their gender expression and sex characteristics (SOGIESC). On their arrival in Europe they are entering into a country where intersex is still stigmatized and a taboo, where there is still too little awareness of what it means to be intersex, and where non-consensual surgeries and treatments of intersex people are still the norm.
READ MORE…

IGM & FGM

While many legal contexts do not explicitly address intersex genital mutilation (IGM), female genital mutilation (FGM) is widely addressed in the European legal landscape. This legal differentiation, though, is largely arbitrary, and based in the same cultural assumptions and stereotypes that threaten the rights of intersex people to begin with.
READ MORE…


Employment

Intersex people are belonging to the most vulnerable and marginalized groups in our society. This is also true in regards of their socio-economic situation: Ongoing discrimination, stigmatisation and the consequences of human rights violations is preventing intersex people from experiencing full equality in the area of employment.
READ MORE…


Intersex Seniors

Older intersex people face very specific challenges and needs, and while there is still very little knowledge and research available on this particular topic, we created a campaign on intersex seniors for Intersex Awareness weeks 2022 “Yellow. Purple. Silver. – What about intersex seniors?“ to highlight some of the few existing findings. Please visit the campaign page to learn more on this topic.
READ MORE…

Latest Posts

Joint statement of civil society organisations on the EU directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence
  • Europe
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Joint statement of civil society organisations on the EU directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence

September 28, 2023
OII Europe Strategic Plan 2023 – 2027
  • Europe
  • OII Europe Publications
  • strategic plan

OII Europe Strategic Plan 2023 – 2027

August 1, 2023
OII Europe receives the 2023 Alan Turing LGBTIQ+ Award
  • International

OII Europe receives the 2023 Alan Turing LGBTIQ+ Award

July 28, 2023
FAQs on the proposal for a Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence
  • EU
  • Europe
  • European Commission
  • European Union

FAQs on the proposal for a Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence

July 18, 2023
The European Parliament position on the Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence includes IGM among the forms of violence within the Directive scope
  • Europe
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The European Parliament position on the Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence includes IGM among the forms of violence within the Directive scope

July 12, 2023
Semenya v. Switzerland
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Semenya v. Switzerland

July 11, 2023
Video Message by Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović for the Participants of the OII Europe Community Event & Public Conference 2023 in Paris, France
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Video Message by Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović for the Participants of the OII Europe Community Event & Public Conference 2023 in Paris, France

June 9, 2023
Video Message by European Commissioner for Equality Helena Dalli for the Participants of the OII Europe Community Event & Public Conference 2023 in Paris, France
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  • European Union
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Video Message by European Commissioner for Equality Helena Dalli for the Participants of the OII Europe Community Event & Public Conference 2023 in Paris, France

June 9, 2023
Good Practice Map 2022
  • 2022
  • Europe
  • Map
  • OII Europe Publications

Good Practice Map 2022

May 11, 2023
OII Europe Annual Report 2022
  • Annual Reports
  • OII Europe Publications

OII Europe Annual Report 2022

May 9, 2023

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You could share our materials, become an intersex ally or simply donate to OII Europe today!

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#10YIIF

10 Years International Intersex Forum
IAW Campaign 2021

#InterVisibility

We speak many languages – visit our multilingual community website

#IntersexLives

Learn about the dreams, hopes and fears of intersex people in Europe

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Want to learn more about the experiences of intersex people living in Europe in their own voices?

Read our 108-pages strong brochure “#MyIntersexStory – Personal accounts by intersex people living in Europe” with fifteen testimonies by intersex people and their families and with fifteen colourful illustrations by intersex artist and OII Europe staff member Ins A Kromminga. This book also includes a text by intersex scholar and sociology professor Janik Bastien Charlebois “On our own terms and in our own words”: The value of first-person accounts of intersex experience.

Check out our campaign website under
https://myintersexstory.oiieurope.org
Title of the publication My-Intersex-Story

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