“In France, there is no law to protect intersex children from the daily mutilations” – Vincent Guillot at UN Committee against Torture

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Bearing witness to IGM, 57th Session of the UN Committee against Torture:
Daniela Truffer (StopIGM.org), Vincent Guillot (France), Markus Bauer (StopIGM.org)
at Palais Wilson before the NGO meeting with the Committe, Geneva 18.04.2016

France is currently up for review of IGM practices at the
57th session of the UN Committee against Torture (CAT).
The public Sessions should be archived at treatybodywebcast.org.
StopIGM.org reported LIVE from Palais Wilson, and is currently in the process of >>> publishing Unofficial Transcripts and Translations of Intersex Q&As.
Hopefully another stern reprimand over IGM for France
is expected ca. Friday 13 May.

Read below the final part of the personal testimony by Vincent Guillot during the private NGO meeting with the Committee against Torture (CAT), Palais Wilson 18.04.2016, 17-18h:

«For more than ten years, I’ve been committed to ensure that intersex children should no longer suffer like me, but the politicians and the doctors refuse to listen.

For example, last November I sent a letter to the Ministries of Justice and Health, but I didn’t get any reply.

Only after France was reprimanded by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, the public health insurance replied that the practice is, and I quote, “justified due to approval by the actors in public health.”

In the Senate, the Government announced to concentrate on civil status and gender identity issues instead, which for intersex children are marginal.

I’m still waiting on replies by the Ministry of Justice on the subject of the genital mutilations.

To this day, in France there is no law to protect intersex children from the daily mutilations.

I appeal to the Committee to oblige France to “take effective legislative, administrative, judicial or other measures” [Art. 2 CAT] to protect intersex children.

Thank you.»

>>> France Questioned over IGM by the UN Committee against Torture!
>>> UN Press Release on 57th CAT Session adresses IGM Practices in France 

Intersex Genital Mutilations in France: CAT NGO Report 
Human Rights Violations Of Children With Variations Of Sex Anatomy
IGM – Most Common Forms • What is Intersex? • How Common are IGMs?
>>>  Download (PDF 3.71 MB)

>>> French Government: IGM-Perpetrators “best suited” to “prevent” Mutilations
>>> Minister Stalls & Diverts: France questioned over IGM by UN-CRC – Full Transcript 
>>> IGM = “Harmful Practice” + “Violence”: UN-CRC Reprimands France

See also:
• 10 Verdicts by UN Treaty Bodies Condemning IGM – And Counting …
• UN Committee for the Rights of the Child (CRC) 2015: IGM = Harmful Practice
• UN Committee against Torture (CAT) 2015: IGM = Inhuman Treatment or Torture
• UN Human Rights Committee (HRCttee) to examine IGM Practices
• UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) condems IGM
• Historic 56th Session of Committee against Torture reprimands 4 Governments over IGM 
• CAT 2011: Germany must investigate IGM practices and compensate survivors!