After a months-long battle with Kazakh authorities, our client managed to obtain a new birth certificate for her intersex child that reflects his gender identity. During the initial examination, the doctors misdiagnosed the child and therefore registered him in the female legal gender. Currently, the diagnosis is correct, and the child has a male gender …
For the first time in history, on October 1, 2020, at the 45th Session of the Human Rights Council, 34 states called on the UN Human Rights Council to urgently protect intersex people in their bodily autonomy and right to health. Austria issued a statement urging the authorities to investigate human rights violations and abuses …
Dear intersex people and parents of intersex people! We turn to you for help in investigating the situation of observance of human rights, as well as the legal needs of intersex people in the Russian Federation. We ask you to take part in the survey using this link [RUS]. If you would like to be …
Association of Russian Speaking Intersex People (ARSI), Interseks.Ru, NFP+, and QIT-Initiative express their condemnation of draft bills on changes in family and civil legislation introduced by a group of the Russian Federation Council’s members for consideration by the State Duma of the Russian Federation on July 14, 2020. In our view, these draft bills, if …
The full statement is available here [RUS]. This statement sets forth the views of the Association of Russian Speaking Intersex regarding the content of the proposed amendment to paragraph g. 1 of part 1 of article 72 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation on the protection of the socially significant institution of marriage. The …
The Association of Russian Speaking Intersex people and other Russian intersex organizations and intersex activists issued a new statement on language surrounding the intersex topics. The statement outlines the views of intersex activists regarding the use of the abbreviation “LGBTI” in communities with widespread prejudice and violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and …
The original statement is available here. This statement outlines the views of the Association of Russian Speaking Intersex regarding the draft Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan “On the health of the people and the health care system.” In particular, Amendment No. 539 provides for an increase in the age at which it is possible …
The Association of Russian Speaking Intersex (ARSI) has presented a List of Issues for evaluation of the observance by the Russian Federation compliance with the obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights within the framework of the 129th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. ARSI raises questions of the Russian …
The original statement is available here. The unprecedented coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) poses a particular threat to intersex people. This statement discusses the impact of the crisis on intersex people and safety measures to survive the pandemic.
The U.S. Department of State has released a report on the human rights situation in Russia for 2019. We are pleased to note that the report discusses violations of the rights of intersex people in our country and mention our organization’s work. “The Association of Russian Speaking Intersex reported that medical specialists often pressured intersex …
