Pursuant to the UN Human Rights Council Resolution A/HRC/RES/55/14 “Combating discrimination, violence and harmful practices against intersex persons”, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is requested to submit a Report for its 60th Sesssion. The High Commissioner in turn reqested written inputs, including from intersex NGOs.
StopIGM’s submission (PDF | DOCX) focuses on medical and non-medical violence and harmful practices, inhuman treatment and other serious violations against intersex children, adolescents and adults, including intersex genital mutilation (IGM) (p. 1-3), its root causes, namely stigma and prejudice (p. 3-4), the so far 98 UN Treaty body Concluding Observations addressing such violations and the relevant articles in UN Conventions according to UN Committees (p. 5-6, 11-15), the minimum requirements to effectively combat such violence under international law (p. 7-9), the so far 6 (insufficient) legislative measures to prohibit IGM taken by states (p. 8-9), and the most common strategies by IGM doctors and aligned actors to prevent effective protections against IGM practices (p. 9-10). The Annexe (p. 11-15) lists the currently 98 UN Concluding Observations on IGM practices.
See also:
• ‘Only the Fear of the Judge Will Make IGM Perpetrators Change’
• “Harmful Medical Practice”: UN, COE, ACHPR, IACHR condem IGM
• UN Committee for the Rights of the Child (CRC): IGM = Harmful Practice + Violence
• UN Committee against Torture (CAT): IGM = Inhuman Treatment or Torture
• UN Women’s Rights Committee (CEDAW): IGM = Harmful Practice
• UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD): Violation of Integrity
• UN Human Rights Committee (HRCttee) condemns IGM Practices