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The 2021 Fellowship Program – Intersex Human Rights Defenders (Switzerland)

Palestine: Human Rights and Democracy Programme

Deadline: 09-Jul-21

Applications are invited for Intersex human rights defenders LGBTI Fellowship program that recognises the stigma and discrimination faced by intersex people in their lives and seeks to build the capacity and visibility of an intersex human rights defender with regard to the UN human rights mechanisms and the international human rights law framework protecting and promoting the rights of LGBTI people generally.

OHCHR work on the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people, OHCHR has created a Fellowship programme for LGBTI human rights defenders that supports one LGBTI human rights defender each year to join the OHCHR LGBTI team for a period of 6 months. In 2019, a trans human rights defender joined the team as a Fellow. After a pause in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2021 the Fellowship will be open to an intersex human rights defender.

OHCHR recognises that intersex people in all regions face specific human rights violations including forced and coerced medical interventions, harmful practices and other forms of stigmatization due to their physical traits, and that there are concerning gaps in laws, policies and actions by States and others to address these human rights violations and protect the rights of intersex people, and that intersex people have fewer opportunities to gain experience in international organizations.

Duties and Responsibilities

How it works

Eligibility Criteria

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For more information, visit https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/LGBTI/Pages/FellowshipApplication.aspx

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