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A New Gender Recognition Law in Poland?

TGEU participates in Conference in Warsaw On November 5th Polish TGEU member organisation Trans-Fuzja co-organized an international conference in Warsaw debating on how a future law for gender recognition ...

6. November 2013A New Gender Recognition Law in Poland?

CoE Parliamentarians Demand Turkey Stop Transphobic Violence

Council of Europe Parliamentarians Demand Concrete Action Against Transphobic Violence in Turkey 27 Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe have condemned the on-going violence and ...

4. October 2013CoE Parliamentarians Demand Turkey Stop Transphobic Violence

Council of Europe Adopts Resolution on Intersex Children

Council of Europe adopts historic intersex-inclusive Resolution The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe addressed for the first time bodily integrity of intersex children by adopting the Resolution ...

3. October 2013Council of Europe Adopts Resolution on Intersex Children

Council of Europe Committee Addresses Transgender Rights Violations

Council of Europe Committee hears and addresses transgender human rights violations On May 24th 2013, the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of ...

1. July 2013Council of Europe Committee Addresses Transgender Rights Violations

PACE Demands Equal Access to Health for Transgender Persons

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe called in a Resolution on June 26 for equal access to health care for transgender persons. “The Assembly notes that inequalities ...

28. June 2013PACE Demands Equal Access to Health for Transgender Persons

PACE Report on Forced Sterilisation

Coerced sterilisations and castrations: ‘never again’ Spring session: 22-26 April 2013 Strasbourg, 25.04.2013 – “Never again”, Liliane Maury Pasquier (Switzerland, SOC) declared today when presenting her report on coerced sterilisations ...

30. April 2013PACE Report on Forced Sterilisation

Trans in the Spotlight! – Non-Discrimination Recommendations

Trans in the Spotlight! Recommendations of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on measures to combat discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity The Recommendation is ...

28. March 2013Trans in the Spotlight! – Non-Discrimination Recommendations

PACE Conference in Warsaw Focuses LGBT Freedom of Expression

PACE conference in Warsaw focuses on freedom of expression for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people 13.03.2013 – Freedom of expression for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people ...

15. March 2013PACE Conference in Warsaw Focuses LGBT Freedom of Expression

2nd International Intersex Forum Reaffirms Human Rights

Delegates of the Second International Intersex Forum Source: ILGA-Europe The second International Intersex Forum organised in partnership by ILGA and ILGA-Europe gathering intersex activists from all other the world took ...

21. December 20122nd International Intersex Forum Reaffirms Human Rights

Issue Paper “Human Rights and Gender Identity” (Portuguese)

Direitos Humanos e Identidade de Gênero – Relatório Temátic de Thomas Hammarberg, Comissário de Direitos Humanos do Conselho da Europa (Série de Publicações do TvT – Volume 5) Issue Paper ...

11. December 2012Issue Paper “Human Rights and Gender Identity” (Portuguese)

Issue Paper “Human Rights and Gender Identity” (Italian)

I Diritti Umani e l’Identità di Genere – Issue Paper di Thomas Hammarberg, Commissario del Consiglio d’Europa per i Diritti Umani (Pubblicazione per la serie TvT – Volume 4) ...

11. December 2012Issue Paper “Human Rights and Gender Identity” (Italian)

Issue Paper “Human Rights and Gender Identity” (Polish)

Tożsamość płciowa a prawa człowieka – Dokument tematyczny autorstwa Thomasa Hammarberga, Komisarza Praw Człowieka Rady Europy (Publikacje projektu TvT – tom 3) Issue Paper “Human Rights and Gender Identity” ...

11. December 2012Issue Paper “Human Rights and Gender Identity” (Polish)