Editorial
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Junior Communications Officer – Call for Position
OII Europe is looking for a 100% (40h/week) Junior Communications Officer. As successful candidate you will implement OII Europe’s communication strategies. The position is initially temporary for one year, with the perspective of being turned into a permanent position. For more details see below or download the call as a PDF:
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Junior Policy Officer – Call for Position
OII Europe is looking for a 100% (40h/week) Junior Policy Officer to fill a vacancy in our policy team. As successful candidate you will work towards the implementation of human rights standards for intersex people in Europe. The position is initially temporary for one year, with the perspective of being turned into a permanent position.
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Response to the Public Statement published by the African Intersex Movement on 5.12.2025
This Statement is available in French and Portuguese below / version française ci-dessous/ versão em português abaixo Dear colleagues of the African Intersex Movement, In the past years we have followed with joy and admiration the growth of the African Intersex Movement, and how you achieved creating a network and then a regional platform that
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Europe Goes Purple
Europe Goes Purple Campaign This year for the Intersex Awareness Weeks (26 Oct – 8 Nov) we join together with the Council of Europe SOGIESC Unit for the #EuropeGoesPurple campaign! Sunday, 26 October marks Intersex Awareness Day 2025. Our Campaign #EuropeGoesPurple is a joint Council of Europe (SOGIESC Unit) & OII Europe initiative, for raising
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New EU LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy: Intersex Rights Overlooked
The Commission’s new LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy 2026-2030: Progress Made, But Intersex Rights Overlooked Yesterday, on the 8th of October 2025, the European Commission published its second EU LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy. OII Europe welcomes the adoption of the Strategy, which was committed to in the mission letter of EU Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management,
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Watershed Moment for Intersex Equality: Council of Europe Sets First-ever Comprehensive Standard for Protection of Intersex Rights Across Europe
The Council of Europe’s 46 Member States have unanimously adopted the Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on Equal Rights for Intersex Persons, setting out the most comprehensive framework to date for protecting the human rights of intersex people across Europe. Today, 7 October, 2025, marks a watershed moment for intersex human
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Policy Brief on Cyberbullying & LGBTQI Youth: Priorities for the EU Action Plan
On September 26 2025, together with IGLYO, ILGA-Europe and TGEU, OII Europe submitted a Policy Brief in the context of the forthcoming EU Action Plan against Cyberbullying. The Policy Brief puts forward recommendations and priorities to protect LGBTQI youth from cyberbullying. Among LGBTQI youth, intersex youth experience alarmingly high levels of in person bullying, as
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OII Europe welcomes UN experts’ statement on gender as a tool to advance human rights
On the 25th of August 2025, a group of 47 United Nations Special Procedures mandate holders published a joint statement reaffirming the central role of gender as an analytical lens to advance equality and human rights for all. The experts expressed deep concern at attempts to dismiss ‘gender’ as a key concept to understand systemic
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“Being Intersex in the EU” – FRA report
New FRA report Being Intersex in the EU sheds light on lived realities of intersex people in the EU Download Press Release as PDF On September 17th 2025, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) published their report Being Intersex in the EU, featuring an in-depth look at the data from 1920 intersex respondents
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First ever panel on intersex people’s human rights at the UN Human Rights Council
OII Europe Press Release On the 15th of September 2025 the milestone panel discussion on combating discrimination, violence and harmful practices against intersex persons took place at the 60th United Nations Human Rights Council. This historic event is a testament to the progress made in past years on UN level to recognize the human rights
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OII Europe Submission on the next EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy
In 2020, the European Commission published its first-ever LGBTIQ Equality Strategy, marking a watershed moment for advancing and protecting the fundamental rights of LGBTIQ people in the EU, including intersex people and the ground of sex characteristics. The 2020-2025 Strategy set down concrete and clear objectives and measures for the Commission to build on in
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OII Europe submission on the EC Gender Equality Strategy
In the last few years the European Commission has made significant advancements in implementing gender equality policies which include and benefit intersex people, particularly intersex women and girls. In 2020, the European Commission published its first- ever LGBTI Equality Strategy 2020-2025, which comprehensively included a clear mandate to work on a range of actions inclusive
