Medical Ethics

WHO report – Sexual Health, Human Rights and the Law

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The World Health Organisation today published it’s long awaited report on sexual health, human rights and the law. Echoing a  recently published report by the UN, the WHO report contains a significant section dedicated to intersex people, as well describing the situation of other stigmatized groups in society such as lesbians, gay men and transgender…
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OII-UK welcomes the UN report on LGBT and Intersex people

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OII-UK welcomes the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights  report published on Monday – “Discrimination and violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity”,  A/HRC/29/23.  Within it’s pages the report makes detailed references to LGBT and Intersex human rights issue. The report details a wide range of actions…
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Here be Dragons*

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Here be Dragons*

It began long ago in a land far away to the east, the like of which you will not find in the world today. ~ The Hobbit     Storytelling is the ancient means by which mankind has always shared information. The Indigenous groups of North America, and Australia shared the stories of their ancestors…
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Undeniable Blackness and Impossible Hermaphrodites

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Undeniable Blackness and Impossible Hermaphrodites

  A Shared Guest Post by Sean Saifa Wall and Dr Cary Gabriel Costello   “In preparing for my talk, “Undeniable Blackness and Impossible Hermaphrodites” at UC Colorado at Colorado Springs next week, I revisited J. Marion Sims, heralded as the father of gynecology. I couldn’t help but feel my heart pound and break reading…
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Human Rights between the Sexes – A preliminary study on the life situations of inter* individuals

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Human Rights between the Sexes – A preliminary study on the life situations of inter* individuals

A report authored by Dr Dan Christian Ghattas, and published by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung lifts the lid on the largely invisible discrimination against intersex individuals and, in doing so, brings it plainly into view. This report offers the first overview of the life situations of intersex individuals from 12 selected countries in various regions…
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