Editorial
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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…
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Assessing Capacity Building Needs Across Europe OII Europe Survey — Deadline July 12th 2020
As a part of the EU-funded project RISE we at OII Europe would like to learn more about capacity building needs of intersex activists and organisations across Europe. The acquired data will be used a a basis for creation of educational tools for intersex activists, specifically thematic webinars, which we will start hosting in August…
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Intersex people in Europe face physical violence and harassment
Unfortunately, as the latest FRA LGBTI report reveals, many intersex people in Europe suffer from physical and sexual attack based on being intersex. They even turn out to be the most affected among all LGBTI people (see the infographic below). Therefore, we appeal to the Yogyakarta Principles on on the application of international human rights…
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Recent survey shows high rate of discrimination of intersex people in Europe
It was on December 10th, 1948 when the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights” and “all are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination” (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Articles 1 and 7). One world speaking up with one voice for equality and…
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Recent survey shows high rate of medical interventions on intersex people lack consent
Intersex people are still subject to invasive and often irreversible medical or surgical treatments to modify their sex characteristics, mainly to align them to social standards of so-called male and female bodies. As the latest FRA EU-LGBTI II Survey Report confirms, the majority of such treatments lack the free and informed consent of the person…
