Submissions
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Policy Brief on Cyberbullying & LGBTQI Youth: Priorities for the EU Action Plan
On September 26 2025, together with IGLYO, ILGA-Europe and TGEU, OII Europe submitted a Policy Brief in the context of the forthcoming EU Action Plan against Cyberbullying. The Policy Brief puts forward recommendations and priorities to protect LGBTQI youth from cyberbullying. Among LGBTQI youth, intersex youth experience alarmingly high levels of in person bullying, as…
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OII Europe Submission on the next EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy
In 2020, the European Commission published its first-ever LGBTIQ Equality Strategy, marking a watershed moment for advancing and protecting the fundamental rights of LGBTIQ people in the EU, including intersex people and the ground of sex characteristics. The 2020-2025 Strategy set down concrete and clear objectives and measures for the Commission to build on in…
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OII Europe submission on the EC Gender Equality Strategy
In the last few years the European Commission has made significant advancements in implementing gender equality policies which include and benefit intersex people, particularly intersex women and girls. In 2020, the European Commission published its first- ever LGBTI Equality Strategy 2020-2025, which comprehensively included a clear mandate to work on a range of actions inclusive…
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On the proposal for a Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence
The above signed organisations (ILGA-Europe, TGEU, EL*C, IGLYO and OII Europe), regional networks fighting for the rights of LGBTI people, including LBTI women across Europe and Central Asia, welcome the Commission’s proposal for a directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence. However, we consider certain elements need to be strengthened, added, or amended,…
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Submission to the call for evidence for the initiative on the “Prevention of harmful practices against women and girls”
From the introduction: To this day, intersex individuals (also called: persons with a variation of sex characteristics), including but not limited to intersex women and girls experience severe fundamental rights violations across the EU. While intersex persons share the experience of structural and every day discrimination, as well as being targets of harassment, violence and…
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Submission combating violence against women and domestic violence
Prepared by OII Europe (May 2022) – updated Oct. 17 2022 From the Introduction: We highly welcome the Commission’s proposal, as it addresses the widespread inequity still prevalent in our societies of which gender-based and domestic violence and the specific vulnerability of women and sex and gender minorities are one of the most horrifying aspects. …
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Submission on the revision of the Victim’s Rights Directive
OII Europe highly welcomes the public consultation for the update of the Victims’ Rights Directive 2012/29/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012, which aims to ensure that victims of crime across the EU are able to access support services, adequate protection and appropriate information concerning their rights. We would…
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Submission: Violence and its impact on the right to health
Updated: 2. August 2022 We submitted our questionaire respond to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, that will inform the next thematic report on “Violence and its impact on the right to health”, which will be presented to…
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Attachment briefing for European Statistics on Population consultation
Prepared by ILGA-Europe, OII Europe, TGEU and IGLYO Currently European statistics on population (ESOP) do not collect statistics on respondents’ sexual orientation, gender identity or sex characteristics. These statistics are essential for the inclusion of data on LGBTI people – one of Europe’s minority groups. LGBTI people are a subgroup at risk of inequality and…
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Joint Submission to the European Court of Human Rights: L.B. v France
OII Europe, together with AIRE Centre (Advice on Individual Rights in Europe), the Dutch Council for Refugees (DCR), the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE), ILGA-Europe, and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) put forward a submission to intervene jointly to the European Court of Human Rights in the case of LB v France…
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Submission to the Constitutional Court in Bulgaria
OII Europe submitted a letter of observations to the Bulgarian Constitutional Court with contextual information regarding practical obstacles faced by intersex people seeking legal gender recognition, and in the matter of the interpretation of the concept of sex under the Constitution. The Supreme Court of Cassation asked the Constitutional Court how legal gender recognition of…
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Towards an evaluation of the Victims’ Rights Directive
Submission prepared by OII Europe From the introduction:The Victims’ Rights Directive, in its current form, does not yet recognize intersex people as victims of bias motivated crime, in particular gender-based violence, and as victims with specific needs. The following submission presents data on the scope of violence intersex people face, points out the specific needs…
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