LGBTI

The New York Times and accuracy in reporting matters LGBT and LGBTI? Clearly not. LGBT and LGBTI do not equal “gay”.

31 December 2011

MARK Landler of The New York Times veers just a bit from the complete story in reporting on some of the main and supporting players in the LGBT – no I for intersex – push for fundamental human rights in the Obama administration. Gay rights? No Mr Landler, LGBTI rights, and we mean the acronym [...]

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GNN reports on Organisation Intersex International Chairperson Hida Viloria’s appeal to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton not to exclude intersex people from global human rights initiatives

30 December 2011

IN one of the least pleasant surprises of 2011 for intersex people, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left intersex – 4% of the global population and some of the most brutally oppressed of all – out of her remarks to the United Nations in Geneva on the topic of worldwide LGBT human rights and [...]

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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the Organization of American States (OAS) advertises intersex inclusive LGBTI fellowship

30 December 2011

YET again a human rights organization based in the United States of America demonstrates that it is possible to include intersex in its remit and not cause the world to come crashing down. Some “experts” seem to think that I for intersex in the acronym LGBTI is one step too far for the world to accept. Clearly [...]

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UK human rights law organization offers LGBTI – note the I for intersex – internship for six months in 2012

29 December 2011

GIVEN the appalling situation for intersex people in the UK – no equality, no human rights, no protection against discrimination, exclusion from the Equality Act 2012 – it is, perhaps, ironic that a UK-based human rights law organization is offering an intersex-inclusive internship. But not all parts of the world so pointedly refuse to acknowledge [...]

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A quick trip to San Francisco: intersex activism can be hard work and a little play

28 December 2011

IT is not all work and no play at OII Australia – sometimes we manage to combine both. That was certainly the case in November when one of our members tagged along with her partner on an all-too-brief business trip to San Francisco.  While there our member met the good folks at LGBTI refugee resettlement [...]

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Photographs from Marriage Equality Rally at ALP National Conference, Sydney, 3rd December 2011

22 December 2011

OII Australia members were inside the ALP National Conference at Darling Harbour and were supporting the marriage equality rally outside the conference venue on Saturday December 3 2011. Intersex Australians lost the right to marriage when the Howard Liberal federal government amended the Marriage Act 1961, changing the definition of marriage as between two people [...]

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Yet another Australian intersex world first, intersex inclusion throughout Labor federal governing party policy platform reforms

19 December 2011

OII Australia ally Rainbow Labor has welcomed changes in the Australian Labor Party policy platform that further support the LGBTI community and especially intersex people. As a result, Australia continues to outstrip governments in the UK, the US and Europe in intersex-inclusiveness, demonstrating it is possible and advisable to initiate law reforms benefiting intersex people, some 4% of the [...]

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OII Chairperson and OII USA director Hida Viloria’s letter to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking for full intersex inclusion in White House human rights initiatives

18 December 2011

HIDA Viloria, Chairperson of Organisation Intersex International (OII) and Director of Organisation Intersex International United States (OII USA) has written a letter to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking for intersex people to be included in the White House’s recently announced global efforts on behalf of LGBT equality. Ms Viloria, on behalf of all of OII, asks Secretary Clinton to include [...]

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Dr Michela Balocchi speaks at V Congresso dell’Associazione Radicale Certi Diritti in Milano – ‘Intersex e diritti negati: quali battaglie comuni con il movimento GLBT(E) in Italia?’, 2-4 December 2011

9 December 2011

DR Michela Balocchi is an activist and ally of intersex people in Italy. She recently presented on the subjects of the mistreatment and denial of human rights for intersex people in Italy and the similarities in the struggles for fundamental human rights between intersex people and LGBT people. Italy is notorious for ignoring the existence of its [...]

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Intersex Organizations

26 October 2011

WE are often asked to provide lists of all the intersex organizations around the world as well as those organizations that actively and equally include intersex in their human rights activism work, support work and membership. By organizations we mean those that have memberships and conduct their activities in the offline, real, physical world as [...]

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Intersex-inclusive Australian High Court Justice Michael Kirby continues the fight against homophobia in the Commonwealth

25 October 2011

RETIRED Australian High Court Justice Michael Kirby has always been intersex-inclusive as long as we have known him, and it is wonderful to see he is once again being actively intersex-inclusive in his current project, working on eradicating homophobia from the Commonwealth. Justice Kirby, who came out in 1999, will address a special conference on [...]

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Intersex inclusion by default continues at the United Nation High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)

10 October 2011

WE at OII Australia continue to be impressed at the consistency with which the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) includes intersex in its work, publications and public statements, since we were asked to comment upon the issue of intersex inclusion several months ago. If only the United Nations (UN) and all its agencies and offices [...]

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