Press Releases
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Protecting LGBTQI rights in Europe. Submission to CM/Rec(2010)5
[You can find the report on the ILGA Europe and TGEU website as well.] OII Europe has joined forces with ILGA and Transgender Europe on the submission to the second review of the Council of Europe Recommendation on measures to combat discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity (CM/Rec(2010)5). Apart from identifying implementation…
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New draft bill in Germany fails to protect intersex people
On 15 August 2018, a new draft bill to adjust legal sex registration of intersex persons was made public in Germany. Below you can read OII Europe response to this problematic bill. Response of OII Europe to the draft law amending sex registration by the German Federal Ministry of the Interior, for Building and Community…
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WHO publishes ICD-11 – and no end in sight for pathologisation of intersex people
Find a Spanish version here. On June 18 2018, the World Health Organization published the new International Classification of Diseases in its 11th version, which will be presented for final approval to the World Health Assembly in 2019. It is the first time since 1992 that the ICD has been reviewed. On positive note trans…
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Welcome our Executive Director, Dan Christian Ghattas!
Today OII Europe announced the organisation’s first paid position. Dan Christian Ghattas was chosen by the Steering Board to take the position of Executive Director. “This is a big step for OII Europe”, says Co-Chair Miriam van der Have. “Dan will continue our fight for the human rights of intersex people, and this new position…
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Joint Statement: Civil Society welcomes German Constitutional Court demand for a new regulation of sex registration as ground-breaking
Joint Statement: Civil Society welcomes German Constitutional Court demand for a new regulation of sex registration as ground-breaking you can download the statement here: Joined Statement of OII Europe, OII Germany, TGEU and BVT Image Source: © Bundesverfassungsgericht │ lorenz.fotodesign, Karlsruhe
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Intersex resolution adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Yesterday marked a historic first when the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted the first intersex-specific resolution of its kind from a European intergovernmental institution. The resolution is based on a detailed report by rapporteur Piet de Bruyn and was unanimously approved by the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination.This resolution is a clear…
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4th International Intersex Forum – Media Statement
Between the 20th and 23rd of April 2017, a Fourth International Intersex Forum was held in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The world’s largest intersex human rights forum to date was attended by 40 representatives of intersex organisations and independent advocates across all regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Post-Soviet countries, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, and Oceania.…
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Information about intersex in 23 languages and more to come
intervisibility.eu The place for stories of intersex people across Europe. OII Europe launches European website with information on intersex in 23 languages on the 8th of November 2016. Today OII Europe is proud to announce the launch of its intervisibility.eu website. That milestone project will for the first time make information about intersex available in…
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Intersex person speaks in the European Parliament for the first time ever today
Brussels 16/06/2016 Intersex person speaks in the European Parliament for the first time ever today In an historical first this afternoon, the European Parliament heard from an intersex person on the rights and needs of intersex people across Europe. Intersex people are born with bodies that do not entirely match the definition of either the…
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The big next step: OII-Europe officially registers as an non-profit NGO in Germany
On the 25th of September, 2015 in Berlin OII Europe takes the important step of officially registering as an non-profit NGO.
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Press Release: Two milestones for intersex human rights in Europe on the same day
OII-Europe PRESS RELEASE Two milestones for intersex human rights in Europe on the same day. At the IDAHO Forum 2015 in Montenegro, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe and the Fundamental Rights Agency launched two documents that represent a true tipping point for the achievement of intersex human rights. The Issue…
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Press Release: OII-Europe applauds Malta’s Gender Identity, Gender Expression And Sex Characteristics Act
This is a landmark case for intersex rights within European law reform On the 1st of April 2015 a historic reform is taking place within the Maltese law code. With the Gender Identity, Gender Expression And Sex Characteristics Act, historic steps are being taken to bring forth an end to non-medically necessary, cosmetic genital surgeries…
