Organisation Intersex International in the United Kingdom
Intersex colleagues gathered in Geneva today to meet and discuss intersex human rights issues. They were welcomed by Zeid Ra-ad Al Hussein – the UN High Commission for Human Rights. During his statement he acknowledged the historic nature of this meeting, and the continuing lack of knowledge about intersex human rights issues. OII-UK warmly welcomes…
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Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein is the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. He has just spoken about intersex human rights abuses in his inaugural address to the 30th Human Right Council in Geneva. OII-UK urges the UK government and other agencies to address the continuing abuse of intersex human rights, and acknowledge that it is…
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UN Free and Equal Campaign publishes Intersex Leaflet The UN Free and Equal LGBT Campaign has just published it’s first factsheet about intersex. It’s a short, informative leaflet details the human rights violations intersex people face, and highlights action nations states and institutions need to adopt. These provide a very useful…
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Philip Zimbardo is an American psychologist. He was detailed to investigate the abuses – long denied – committed on prisoners at the Abu Ghraib detention camp. In his report he describes the phenomena whereby apparently otherwise “good” people do very bad things, in this case, the crimes committed in Abu Ghraib. “Good people do bad…
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Once you label me, you negate me Søren Kierkegaard We know nothing of Joseph Marzo in life, so it is impossible to know what they would have ever thought of the declaration made after their death that they were “una donna” – a woman. They died after another episode of the vomiting and diarrhea that…
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In a word, no. However, that wouldn’t make for a very readable Buzzfeed article, so instead we have this. This article is gaining some traction on fb. It’s easy to see why. It has an identifiable subject who has been subjected to appalling medicalised violence in the name of orthodox protocols. Protocols that…
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