Expressing gender: the need to protect Human Rights of Transgender people

Throughout the world, different cultures often have very different perceptions of gender and its expression. Individuals themselves express their gender identity in many different ways. Though a basic human right, the will to express one’s identity and/or attachment to a gender often leads to discrimination, suffering and all too often to physical aggression up to and including murder. It is the expressed desire of ILGA to remind the international community of the necessity to include gender identity in a UN Resolution in order to protect the rights of transgender people. Transgender rights are human rights.

Wednesday 13 April 2005 from 1 pm to 3:30 pm, Palais des Nations, 61st United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Geneva.

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A panel organised by the International Lesbian and Gay Association

In collaboration with
Arc International, FIDH (International Federation of Human Rights Leagues, IGLHRC (International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission), Instituto Runa para la identidad de genero, ISHR (International Service for Human rights) and Rights Australia.

With the financial support of the Swedish and the German Foreign Offices.

Chair
Uma Kali Shakti, ILGA’s Board Member for Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, New Zealand

Speakers
La lucha por la igualdad de derechos no incluye a las personas Trans
Belissa Andia Perez, Insituto Runa para la identidad de genero, Peru

Mauro Cabral, IGLHRC, United States of America

Gender diversity is a normal and potentially healthy variation of human expression
Deborah Lambillotte, Board Member of ILGA Europe, the European Region of ILGA, Belgium