UNITED NATIONS TREATY BODIES: REFERENCES TO SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY, GENDER EXPRESSION AND SEX CHARACTERISTICS: ANNUAL REPORT 2022

• In 2022, all nine Treaty Bodies returned to their level of activity before the COVID-19 pandemic.
• In 2022, the nine Treaty Bodies collectively made 218 SOGIESCabbreviation standing for sexual orientation and gender identity & expression, and sex characteristics. More references in 89 Concluding Observationsobservations and recommendations issued by a treaty body after it has considered a State party’s report and reports submitted by civil society organisations and had a dialogue with the State. More on 73 different States. This included five follow-up recommendations to five countries made by four Committees.
• The number of SOGIESC-inclusive Concluding Observations and references significantly increased in 2022 when compared to the indicators achieved by Treaty Bodies in 2019, a year
  with regular activity, and 2020-2021 with reduced activity.
• The rate of SOGIESC-inclusive references per Concluding Observation was the highest ever (2.4) for a year with regular activity by the Treaty Bodies.
• The percentage of SOGIESC-inclusive Concluding Observations was one the highest ever (67%).

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This eight edition of United Nationsan international organisation comprising 193 member States. It has the mission of maintaining peace and security, protecting human rights, providing humanitarian aid and ensuring economic and social development across the globe. It is a network of many different bodies and agencies, each of which has a particular role and responsibility. More Treaty Bodies: References to Sexual Orientationrefers to a person’s capacity for profound emotional, affectional and sexual attraction to - and intimate and sexual relations with - individuals of a different gender or the same gender or more than one gender. More, Gender Identityrefers to a person’s deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex assigned at birth. More, Gender Expressionrefers to how a person presents their gender through physical appearance – including dress, hairstyles, accessories, cosmetics – and mannerisms, speech, behavioural patterns, names and personal references. More and Sex Characteristicsa term that refers to physical features relating to sex - including genitalia and other sexual and reproductive anatomy, chromosomes, hormones, and secondary physical features emerging from puberty. More was published by ILGA World. The report is published under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.

This report provides an analysis of references to sexual orientation, genderrefers to a social construct which places cultural and social expectations on individuals based on their assigned sex. More identity, gender expression and sexrefers to the classification of a person as male, female, or other - usually made at birth, written on a birth certificate, and usually based on the appearance of their external anatomy. A person’s sex, however, is actually a combination of bodily characteristics, including chromosomes, hormones, internal and external reproductive organs, and secondary sex characteristics. More characteristics made by nine Treaty Bodies in 2022. An additional compilation of references with keywords is provided, as well as a simplified version of this report for a wider audience.

Author Facundo Sesin
Coordinator and editor Kseniya Kirichenko
Research assistants Andrea Baldwin, Aoife Burke and Aigerim Kamidola
Design and layout Lukas Berredo