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    UNHRC adopted first Resolution of its kind for Intersex Rights

    Posted 06 Apr 2024

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    • Resolution is adopted at the 55th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

     

    • Resolution calls on states:
      • To combat discrimination, violence and harmful practices against persons with innate variations in sex characteristics and
      • Address their root causes as well as help intersex people ‘realize the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health’.

     

    • Intersex people are born with sex characteristics (such as sexual anatomy, reproductive organs, hormonal patterns and/or chromosomal patterns) that do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies
      • They may have any gender identity or sexual orientation.
      • Experts estimate that up to 1.7 % of the population are born with intersex traits.
      • Intersex people are different from transgenders
        • Transgenders are born with a body that has unambiguous sexual characteristics (either male or female) but they don’t match the person's gender identity.

     

    • Key issues with Intersex People: They are subjected to human rights violations because of their physical characteristics. 
      • Society has created harmful stereotypes and pathologization (treating intersex persons as necessarily ill or disordered) towards them. 
      • They face issues like Infanticide, forced and coercive medical interventions, discrimination in different sphere, legal recognition, etc. 

     

    About UNHRC

    • Genesis: Established in 2006 by the General Assembly.  UNHRC replaced the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
    • About: It is the main intergovernmental body within the United Nations for Strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights.
    • Key Mandate: Reviews the human rights records of all UN Member States via the Universal Periodic Review, Authorizes commissions of inquiry and fact-finding missions on war crimes and crimes against humanity etc. 
    • Membership: Made of 47 Member States
    • Tags :
    • Intersex Rights
    • UNHRC
    • United Nations Human Rights Council
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