International
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Register Now! OII Europe Community Event and Public Conference 2025 in Athens, Greece
OII Europe is very happy to announce our next Community event and Public Conference, which will be held in person in Athens, Greece on November 27th-29th, 2025, where we will be hosted by our local host Intersex Greece!
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Groundbreaking WHO publication calls for end of sex-normalizing surgeries
A group of researchers affiliated with the World Health Organization (WHO) conducted a systematic review focused on medical rationales for sex-normalising surgeries; the outcomes of that review were published recently (29.8.24). This publication is truly groundbreaking, because WHO Article https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pgph.0003568IHRA Press Release https://intersexdepath.org/global-bioethics-statement-calls-for-end-to-medically-unnecessary-intersex-surgeries/ “medically unnecessary genital surgeries imposed on prepubertal children and infants violate their…
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Registration is Open for the OII Europe Online Community Event and Public Conference 2024
OII Europe is happy to announce the registration for the Online Community Event and Public Conference 2024. This year’s event will be held on September 27th-29th, 2024 on zoom platform, and like the previous community events consists of a one-day public conference and a two-day closed community event.
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OII Europe Follow Up COVID-19 Intersex Survey 2022
Two years after the original 2020 OII Europe COVID-19 Survey, to assess the impact of the pandemic on the intersex community in Europe throughout the 2,5 years of the pandemic, the OII Europe Follow Up COVID-19 Intersex Survey 2022 was launched on August 12th, 2022. The survey was open for 35 days.
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OII Europe receives the 2023 Alan Turing LGBTIQ+ Award
Yesterday, 27th of July 2023, OII Europe received the 2023 Alan Turing LGBTIQ+ Award for International Organisations, in Santa Cruz, Tenerife. The Alan Turing LGBTIQ+ Award is a unique award in the world in its category and aim to recognize the work of national and international personalities as well as organisations and bodies who have…
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Impact of the War in Ukraine on Intersex People and Rights of Intersex Asylum Seekers Panel Transcript
On Friday, September 30th, 2022, during the OII Europe Online Public Conference 2022 OII Europe organized a panel called “Impact of the War in Ukraine on Intersex People and Rights of Intersex Asylum Seekers”. The text transcript of the panel is available below. We thank your amazing invited speakers, moderator and author of the quote.…
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OII Europe Community Event and Public Conference 2023 in Paris, France
OII Europe is very happy to announce that after 2 years of having events online, our next Community Event and Public Conference will be held in person. Our fourth Community event and Public Conference in Paris, France, we will be hosted by Collectif Intersexe Activiste – OII France. Deadline to register for the Community Event…
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thisisintersex.org
We are happy to announce the launch event of thisisintersex.org on October 26th, on Intersex Awareness Day, held from 15:00 till 16:15h, CEST time. We especially want to thank Ms Helena Dalli, Commissioner for Equality of the European Union, who will deliver the keynote speech. We are also pleased to have our speakers Surya Monro,…
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LBTI Women in Sports: violence, discrimination and lived experiences
In March 2021, a coalition of European networks working on LGBTI rights and including ILGA Europe, EL*C, TGEU, OII Europe and EGLSF submitted to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe a briefing note on violence and discrimination against LBTI women in sport. The PACE has drawn attention to gender-based violence and discrimination in…
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OII Europe Online Community Event and Public Conference 2021 Registration
OII Europe is happy to announce the Online Community Event and Public Conference 2021. This year’s event like the previous three community events consists of a one-day public conference and a two-day closed community event. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic the event will be held completely online. The registration to participate in the Online…
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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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A groundbreaking resolution has been adopted by the UN Human Rights Council on the elimination of discrimination against women and girls in sport.
A groundbreaking resolution has been adopted by the UN Human Rights Council on the elimination of discrimination against women and girls in sport. For the first time it notes with concern the discrimination faced by women and girls born with variations of sex characteristics. It also recognizes that sport regulations and practices can reinforce harmful…
