Open Letter to the UN OHCHR: 1st global call for human rights by & for intersex people!
On Human Rights Day, December 10th, 2012, participants of the 2nd International Intersex Forum, in Stockholm, with the assistance of ILGA and ILGA-Europe, published and delivered the, “Open Letter: A Call for Human Rights for Intersex People,” authored by OII Chair Hida Viloria, to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay. As outlined in the Astraea Lesbian Fund for Justice’s “We Are Real: The Growing Movement Advancing the Rights of Inersex People” (A Blobal Movement, paragraph 7), with over two dozen international and national intersex advocacy organizations from Europe, Latin and North America, Africa, South and East Asia, and Australia signing in support, it is the first global call for human rights by and for intersex people, and we are extremely pleased by the unprecedented community participation.
See signatories of the letter below:
Hida Viloria
Chairperson, Organisation Intersex International (OII)
Founder and Director, OII-USA
Gloria Careaga
Co-Secretary General, ILGA
(International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association)
Gabi Calleja
Co-Chair, ILGA-Europe
Councillor Tony Briffa JP
Silvan Agius
Policy Director, ILGA- Europe
Ruth Baldacchino
Executive Board Member, Malta Gay Rights Movement (MGRM)
Jim Bruce
Communications & Youth Coordinator, Advocates for Informed Choice
Mauro Cabral
Outreach and Networking Officer, OII Argentina
Co-Director, GATE – Global Action for Trans* Equality
Janik Bastien Charlebois, Ph.D.
Professeore, Departement du Sociologie Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Hiker Chiu
Founder and Director, OII Chinese www.oii.tw
Ditte Dyreborg
Affiliated with Pangea International Copenhagen, Denmark
Michaela Chatter
Urologist, Germany
Dr. Dan Christian Ghattas
Outreach and Networking Officer, OII-Germany
Holly Greenberry
Project Coordinator, Intersex UK
Sally Gross
Founder and Director, Intersex South Africa
Vincent Guillot
Spokesperson, OII Francophonie
Mayssa Hamza
OII Spokesperson for the Arabic Speaking Islamic Community
Loveday Hodson-Little
Lecturer in Law, University of Leicester, UK
Morgan Holmes, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University
Adnan Hossain
Bangladesh Initiatives on Pleasure, Power and Praxis
Dr. Juan Carlos Jorge
Department de Anatomia y Neurobiologia Escuela de Medicina
Universidad de Puerto Rico
Julius .K. Kaggwa
Executive Director, SIPD Uganda
Ins A Kromminga
Spokesperson, OII Deutschland (OII Germany)
Prof. Dr. Konstanze Plett, LL.M.
Professor of Law, Universitat Bremen
Natasha Jimenez Mata
Coordinator General, Mulabi
Ev Blaine Matthigack
Founder, OII Deutschland (OII Germany)
Support Group Coordinator, TransInterQueer (TrIQ) E.V.
Nathabiseng Mokoena
Advocacy Coordinator, Transgender and Intersex Africa South Africa
Thoralf Mosel
Project Manager, TransInterQueer (TrIQ) E.V.
Pol Naydenov
Board Member, Bilitis Resource Center, Bulgaria
Jen (Pidgeon) Pagonis
Chicago, USA
Peter Trinkle
Executive Director, Bodies Like Ours
Daniela Truffer
Co-Founder, Human Rights Group Zwischengeschlecht
Personal capacity; affiliation for identification purposes only.
Vreer Verkerke
Vreerwerk Gender Education Trans Rights, TGEU
Del La Grace Volcano
Director, OII Scandinavia (Sweden)
Gina Wilson
President, OII Australia Ltd