State- SponSored HomopHobia - A World Survey of Laws: criminalisation, protection and

8 State-SponSored HomopHobia - may 2015 Following an overview of developments of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression (SOGIE) and intersex concerns at the UN, and an interesting essay on intersectionality in LGBTI advocacy written by our colleagues at the Sexual Rights Initiative, the first part of the report presents a global overview of developments of legislation in a variety of l. [...] For example, the early-2015 review of Switzerland by the Committee on the Rights of the Child highlighted that non-consensual intersex surgery was a harmful practice and “a kind of violence to children”.10 And in March 2015, the Human Rights Committee expressed concern about reports of discrimination, harassment, threats to physical integrity and intimidation against persons because of their sexua. [...] With more and more opportunities available to LGBTI advocates at the multilateral level, ILGA is developing capacity to better-engage with parts of the UN system that have been covered less: the work of the UN treaty bodies such as the Committee on the Rights of the Child, and the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights are some examples where we will put significant resources in place d. [...] All of them show the vulnerability of non-white LGBTI people and many of them examine differences based on racial identity and sexual orientation, and examined the intersections of race and LGBTI identity. [...] 22 in the republic of congo Brazzaville, the text of the penal code is the one that was in force when the country was still a colony of france.