

Navanethem Pillay Navi Pillay is the High Commissioner for Human Rights. As UN Human Rights Chief, she has been a vocal supporter of the protection of the human rights of ...
Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights endorses trans rights campaign Access All Areas! Recognition Opens Doors “It is an indispensable toolkit” “Trans people in Europe continue to face serious obstacles ...
Të Drejtat e Njeriut dhe Identiteti Gjinor Issue Paper „Human Rights and Gender Identity“ by Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg (Albanian) Download (pdf 3MB)
Human Rights Commissioner Nils Muižnieks urges Ireland to adopt Legal Gender Recognition “It is my position that legal recognition of the preferred gender should not require infertility or compulsory ...
ALBANIA [English] This past week, dozens of LGBT activists from countries in and around southeastern Europe gathered at the Tirana International Hotel for a precedent-setting event: “Stop the Violence: LGBT ...
EUROPEAN UNION [English] The European Parliament has recommended that the future EU Special Representative for Human Rights, soon to be appointed, should promote the human rights of LGBT people worldwide. ...
EUROPEAN UNION [English] Tomorrow, April 1st, Nils Muižnieks takes up the post of Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights. We thank the former mandate holder, Thomas Hammarberg, for ...
Roundtable on rights of transgender people (22-23 September) On 22-23 September the EU Fundamental Rights Agency – FRA is hosting a roundtable event jointly organised with the Council of Europe ...
Commissioner for Human Rights speaks out against gender and sexuality based violence in Turkey 25/08/2011 – Hürriyet Daily News / Turkey source During my mandate as Commissioner for Human ...
UN High Commissioner speaks up to end violence & sanctions on basis of gender identity “It can never be acceptable to deprive certain individuals of their rights, indeed to impose ...