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OII Europe (Organisation Intersex International Europe) is the umbrella organisation of European human rights based and intersex-led organisations. OII Europe works for the protection of intersex persons’ human rights in Europe, Central Asia and the Maghreb region.

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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…

  • European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) launches report of the 2019 EU-LGBTI II survey

    Today, 14th of May 2020, the EU Fundamental Rights Agency published the results of the new LGBTI Study. Almost 140.000 LGBTI people from 28 countries participated, making the study the largest survey of its kind to this date. For the first time specific questions about intersex people’s experience were included. “With over 1500 intersex persons…

  • Letter to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán: in regards to Article 33 of the proposed Omnibus Bill, 2020

    Together with ILGA-Europe and TGEU we have sent a joint letter to the Hungarian government to stop the attack on legal gender recognition. In the letter, we list the international calls to #Drop33 of a legislative omnibus bill–which would deny access to legal gender recognition in the country–including from the COE Commissioner for Human Rights…

  • EU Strategy on victims’ rights (2020-2025) Joint submission

    One component of work under the Victim’s Rights Directive relating to violence against women and girls is combatting female genital mutilation (FGM). In order to also address the human rights violations that intersex infants and children face, the future Directive should also include intersex genital mutilation (IGM) as a key focus.

  • Kako podržati vaše interspolno dijete – Priručnik za roditelje

    Supporting your intersex child – A parents’ toolkit in Croatian 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.

  • #MyIntersexStory – Personal accounts by intersex people living in Europe

    OII Europe Press Release (download as PDF)November 8th, 2019 Check out our campaign website under https://myintersexstory.oiieurope.org/ You can download our publication as a PDF (17,9 MB) under the following link: https://www.oiieurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/testimonial_broch_21-21cm_for_web.pdf

  • Поддержка вашего интерсекс-ребенка

    Мальчик или девочка? При рождении ребенка этот вопрос задают по всему миру. Многие родители ответят на этот вопрос, особо не задумываясь. Но для значительного количества родителей это более сложный вопрос. Поддержка вашего интерсекс-ребенка (PDF)

  • Intersex Awareness Day Oct 26 Campaign #MyIntersexStory

    On the Intersex Awareness Day (Oct. 26 2019) we launch our campaign #MyIntersexStory with quotes of testimonies by intersex people living in Europe. Go check out this page to learn more or keep your eyes peeled for our campaign postings in our social medias during the Intersex Awareness Weeks (IAD) until November 8th.

  • Supporting your intersex child – A parents’ toolkit (serbian version)

    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. Supporting your intersex child – A parents’ toolkit Serbian (PDF)

  • France lacks understanding of intersex human rights violations

    Amendment to the French Bioethic law cements the status quo of unconsented surgeries on infants and children Yesterday, on the 8th of October 2019, the national assembly in France has failed to prohibit non-vital surgeries on infants and children with a variation in their sex characteristics by 89 voices against 19. The now adopted amendment…

  • Legal Toolkit Videoclip

    Across Europe the right of intersex people to bodily autonomy is still regularly and greviously violated. However, things are changing. In 2019 the European Parliament adopted a milstone Resolution on the rights of intersex people (http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-8-2019-0128_EN.html). The resolution pointed to the “urgent need to address violations of the human rights of intersex people”, and “calls…

  • Wspieranie interpłciowego dziecka

    Czym jest interpłciowość?Dziewczynka, czy chłopiec? To pytanie słyszy się na całym świecie po urodzeniu dziecka. Większość rodziców odpowiada na to pytanie bez zastanowienia, ale dla duzej liczby rodziców odpowiedz jest bardziej złozona. https://www.oiieurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ParentsToolkit_PL_final.pdf