Submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission on reform of the family...
IHRA has made a submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission regarding its discussion paper on reform of the family law system, with a focus on reform of the welfare jurisdiction to ensure that...
View ArticleSubmissions to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
IHRA has made a submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, kindly endorsed by the AIS Support Group Australia, Disabled People's Organisations of Australia, National LGBTI Health...
View ArticleMorgan Carpenter: “Clinical regulation has failed”
On invitation, Morgan Carpenter has written a blog post for the journal Reproductive Health Matters: “Intersex human rights: clinical self-regulation has failed”. Here’s an extract: There is neither...
View ArticleO&G Magazine: “What do intersex people need from doctors?” and more
O&G Magazine, the magazine of the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) published a special issue on LGBTQIA people for December 2018. It contains...
View ArticleKirby Institute lecture by Morgan Carpenter
Earlier this month, co-executive director Morgan Carpenter gave a lecture at the Kirby Institute, UNSW, on "medical and legal contradictions on the meaning and needs of intersex people". The post Kirby...
View ArticleFederal election 2019 – party positions on intersex human rights and health
Ahead of the federal election on 18 May 2019, IHRA, AISSGA, Equality Australia, the National LGBTI Health Alliance, People with Disability Australia and others have identified key priorities for our...
View ArticleIDAHOBIT statement, 2019
Today is International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, Biphobia and, in recent years, discrimination against intersex people. The event marks the anniversary of the partial depathologisation of...
View ArticleJoint statement on the International Classification of Diseases 11
Declaración conjunta sobre la Clasificación Internacional de Enfermedades 11 / Совместное заявление о Международной классификации болезней 11 / Déclaration commune sur la Classification Internationale...
View ArticleMedia statement – International Classification of Diseases 11 and intersex...
More than 50 intersex-led organisations and groups from every region of the world have signed a joint statement to the World Health Organization condemning the repathologisation of intersex variations...
View ArticleShadow report submission to the UN CRPD
This Report was submitted by Intersex Human Rights Australia (“IHRA”), a national charitable organisation run by and for people born with intersex variations, to the UN Committee on the Rights of...
View ArticleStatement on intersex and abortion law reform
This statement follows press reports in the Daily Telegraph, suggesting that NSW Finance Minister Damien Tudehope will introduce a proposed amendment to a bill decriminalising abortion in the NSW...
View ArticleResponse to the Victorian paper on the health and wellbeing of people with...
This paper is a formal response to the Health and wellbeing of people with intersex variations Information and resource paper published by the Department of Health & Human Services in Victoria...
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