IE SOGI

This Report by the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on SOGI is key to understand why the so-called “conversion therapy” is a way of torture. It is used as an umbrella term to describe interventions of a wide-ranging nature, that aim (or claim to aim) at changing people from gay, lesbian or bisexual to heterosexual and from trans or gender diverse to cisgender.
Víctor Madrigal-Borloz, explores the practices of so-called “conversion therapy” across the globe, including their impact on victims, their human rights implications and their connection with violence and discrimination based on SOGI, as well as measures adopted to prevent them and to penalize or prosecute those who perform them and remedies provided to victims.

General Assembly Press releases

No Challenge in UN Third Committee on the Renewal of Independent Expert on SOGI

#RenewIESOGI, IE SOGI, Special procedures, Third committee

The Third Committee of the UN General Assembly adopted the resolution presenting the Annual Report of the Human Rights Council today without challenge to the extension of the mandate of the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination on the basis of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (IE SOGI).
In 2016 when the mandate was created, an amendment challenging it was tabled at the Third Committee. This year, a record-high number of States supported the renewal of the mandate at the Human Rights Council in July, and the mandate was not challenged in the Third Committee. This is a clear indication that the international community is becoming both more aware and less tolerant of violence and discrimination on the basis of SOGI.

Kim Vance
Arvind Narrain
Dodo Karsay
Mariana Winocur
Erin Aylward
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