OII Europe Online Community Event and Conference 2021 – session recordings
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 OII Europe Online Community Event and Conference for the first time was [Continue Reading]
OII Europe Birthday Streams 2020
This year OII Europe celebrated its 5th birthday (after registering as a charitable NGO). Unfortunately, due to the Covid-19 pandemy [Continue Reading]
OII Europe Good Practice Map 2019 Launch Event (video)
For presenting the Intersex Good Practice Map 2019 we created our first facebook live event and invited two guests to [Continue Reading]
Legal Toolkit Videoclip
Across Europe the right of intersex people to bodily autonomy is still regularly and greviously violated. However, things are changing. [Continue Reading]
[VIDEO] Frontline Dispatches: Intersex Children And Medical Sex Assignment – Whose Right To Choose?
“European countries have been slow in recognising and upholding the human rights of intersex people and the gender diversity they represent,” wrote Nils Muižnieks, the Commissioner for Human Rights, in a ground-breaking 2015 report on the self-determination and physical integrity of intersex people.
He added: “It is urgent to end unnecessary medical treatment and surgery of intersex individuals without their consent; to respect their right not to undergo sex assignment treatment; to review medical classifications which treat variations in sex characteristics as a pathology; and to ensure intersex persons’ right to self-determination by facilitating their legal recognition in official documents.”
What It’s like to be intersex – Buzzfeed video
presented by the Intersex Youth Advocacy Group based in the United States
