FACTSHEET – SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES
The Factsheet on the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discriminationunequal or unfair treatment which can be based on a range of grounds - such as age, ethnic background, disability, and diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions or sex characteristics, amongst others. More based on 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 and 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 – Summary of SOGIESC-related work has been developed by ILGA World and ISHR.
