Editorial
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OII Europe’s 5th Anniversary Birthday Messages
Thanks once again everyone for your wonderful contribution to OII Europe’s 5th anniversary! Your amazing birthday messages allowed us to compile the following Birthday Video with all the birthday wishes.
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OII Europe Birthday Streams 2020
This year OII Europe celebrated its 5th birthday (after registering as a charitable NGO). Unfortunately, due to the Covid-19 pandemy we also had to switch to an online format but hope we all will be able to celebrate together in person very soon again! Here is our birthday party stream video: And we received many…
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Intersex Lives
Intersex Lives – our 2020 campaign website This campaign is based on a workshop during the previous OII Europe Community Event in Zagreb 2019. During the workshop the intersex community collected and shared short personal quotes of our dreams, hopes and fears: What makes us proud? What gives us joy? Many of the things in…
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Steun je intersekse kind
Wat is intersekse? Is het een jongen of een meisje? Dit is de vraag die overal ter wereld wordt gesteld wanneer iemand bevalt. Veel ouders zullen die vraag zonder nadenken beantwoorden. Maar voor een aanzienlijk aantal zal het antwoord ingewikkelder zijn. Download Steun je interseks kind (PDF): https://www.oiieurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Parents-guide-NL-v1.1.0.pdf
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Intersex youth face discrimination, physical violence and harassment
Intersex youth deserve an educational environment which helps them develop their full potential and make them feel included, safe and free from harassment and discrimination. They deserve school programs which promote bodily and personal diversity as an added value. Sadly, this is not the reality in Europe today. On the contrary, they are often subjected…
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Intersex People face obstacles in regards of legal recognition
Everyone has the right to respect for their private life. This is what we read in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (Article 7) and in the European Convention on Human Rights (Article 8). Gender identity is a crucial aspect in the development of everyones self-image, and intersex people, like anyone else, have the right…
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Not a ban. Albania misses the chance to clearly address intersex children’s health from a human rights perspective
OII Europe Press Release July 16, 2020 In July 2020, the Albanian Ministry of Health released a “Medical Protocol for the Assessment of Children with Atypical Genital Development” (“Protokoll Mjekësorpër Vlerësimin E Fëmijëveme Zhvillim Gjenital Atipik”) as binding guidelines and a practical guide for health professionals. Unfortunately, despite some positive aspects, it fails in fully…
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OII Europe Good Practice Map 2019 Launch Event (video)
For presenting the Intersex Good Practice Map 2019 we created our first facebook live event and invited two guests to speak about the OII Europe Good Practice Map 2019!The map features eight examples of Good Practice from the areas of resolution, data collection, research, legal protection, campaigning, awareness raising, employment and funding by national governments…
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Supporting your intersex child – A parents’ toolkit (Arabic & Farsi versions)
We are delighted to present two new translations of our Parents Toolkit ”Supporting your intersex child“ into Arabic and Farsi. We thank our allies from turkey.unfpa.org who have so kindly provided these versions of our toolkit! You can download the toolkits here:
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OII Europe Annual Report 2019
We are happy to present our activities and successes of 2019 within our Annual Report 2019! You can download the Annual Report as a pdf here:
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Good Practice Map 2019
OII Europe launches 2019 Good Practice Map: Intersex Rights Still Under Attack in Europe, But There are Good Examples Today, 15th of June 2020, OII Europe is proud to present the Intersex Good Practice Map 2019. The Map features 8 examples of Good Practice from the areas of resolution, data collection, research, legal protection, campaigning,…
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Intersex people in Europe face housing and economic difficulties
For the first time, the FRA LGBTI Survey 2019 shows us statistical data on the issues of housing and economic difficulties for intersex people living in Europe. Among all LGBTI respondents intersex people are the group with the highest rates of difficulties. In addition, as pointed out in the editorial comment in our infographic, intersex…
