ALTHOUGH the draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill (AHB) remains stalled one year after it was first introduced in the Ugandan Parliament, the intimidation, harassment, and violence it was designed to incite remain an everyday part of life, and an urgent human rights crisis for LGBT Ugandans. … Kaggwa is also the executive director of the Support Initiative…
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ARTE+7: Intersexualité
Intersexualité Si l’on en croit les statistiques, tout nouveau-né est soit un garçon, soit une fille. Et pourtant, ce n’est pas toujours aussi simple à déterminer ! Le sexe biologique d’un être humain s’exprime en effet à plusieurs niveaux et chez les intersexuels, l’apparence physique ne va pas forcément dans le même sens que les…
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The Mainichi Daily News: Mainichi column on gender issues wins Waseda journalism prize
A Mainichi Shimbun column focusing on gender identity issues has won the grassroots democracy section of the 10th Waseda Journalism Award in Memory of Ishibashi Tanzan. The column, “Kyokai o Ikiru” (Living on the boundaries), written by a team headed by Koichi Tanno, started in September 2009. It highlights the anguish of children with gender…
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Sophia Siedberg: My Response to CARES
Author: Sophia Siedlberg, OII-UK TO understand the controversy surrounding Dr Dix Poppas and Dr Maria New, you have to look at what they are doing at face value and then ask yourself how what they are doing helps patients with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH). Dr New proposes the use of dexamethasone to “ensure” that a…
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The Standard: Court to rule on intersex convict in November
Republished from an article by Judy Ogutu: AN intersex convict will have to wait until November when he is likely to know his fate in a case he has lodged seeking for legal recognition. A Constitutional court said on Wednesday it will on November 9, deliver its verdict on the suit filed by Mr Richard…
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human rights first: Human Rights Defenders Combating Discrimination to Receive 2010 Honors
HUMAN Rights First will present its 2010 Human Rights Award to a renowned Hungarian advocate for the rights of the Roma people in Europe and a Ugandan activist on the front lines of defeating a draconian anti-homosexuality bill there. The group will honor this year’s recipients, Julius Kaggwa and Viktória Mohácsi, at its annual award…
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People’s Daily Online: Male sex chromosome found in Guangdong girl’s body
XIAODI, a teenage girl who was found to be physiologically a boy at age 15, received a sex change operation at Zhujiang Hospital in Guangdong yesterday. Xiaodi has white skin, a soft voice and a beautiful appearance. It’s hard to image she is a boy. Her father said Xiaodi’s genitalia were not so clear and…
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The Himalayan Times: Project for LGBTI rights
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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