Asia-Pacific

[Op/Ed] Intersex disappointment with New Zealand Human Rights Commission

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OII Australia chairperson, Gina Wilson, has pointed toward a busy 2011 for the organization in Australia. In an article published in the Sydney Star Observer Ms Wilson draws attention not only to some of the primary issues faced by intersex people, but also illustrates the advances occurring in Australia. “OII will once again argue against…
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Global Times: Hermaphrodite’s sad tale

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A 20-year-old university student from Pengshui county, Chongqing Municipality is facing a hard choice: to become a man or a woman after doctors at Southwest Hospital found that she is a hermaphrodite. Zeng Jing, who was raised as a girl, came to the hospital with her mother for examinations where Doctor Lu Gensheng found Zeng…
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CTiTV.com: 是男也是女!擁抱陰陽人　支持接納她和他

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11月8號是國際陰陽人團結日，一般人很少了解這群弱勢族群，他們發生的機率是兩千分之一，就讀高雄縣樹德科技大學的博士生丘愛芝本身就是陰陽人，從小就透過手術被指定成了女性，但她有喉結、鬍渣、乳房沒發育，外型就像男生，上女廁還會被轟出去，如今她走到人群，發起擁抱陰陽人行動，希望能讓社會認識接納他們。 HIKER Chiu is founder of OII Chinese, and is based in Taiwan. CTiTV.com: 是男也是女!擁抱陰陽人　支持接納她和他

The Himalayan Times: Project for LGBTI rights

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MINISTRY of Women, Children and Social Welfare (MoWCSW) and Blue Diamond Society (BDS), an NGO for third gender rights, are jointly working to amend legal provisions to ensure equal rights for the third gender. Sher Jung Karki, under secretary at the ministry said that third genders suffer violence, harassment, discrimination, exclusion and stigma. After the…
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