International Commission of Jurists
Presentations on international human rights law’s prohibitions on sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination

Presentations on international human rights law’s prohibitions on sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination

Jan 11, 2008

LGBT rainbow flag in windThe ICJ emphasizes that nations undergoing constitutional reform processes have a unique opportunity to develop protections against sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination.

These protections are solidly grounded in international human rights law. The universality and indivisibility of this body of law is reflected in the newly-developed Yogyakarta Principles.

Nepal-Three Presentations on Nepal’s new Constitution and Fundamental Rights of Minorities-Publications-2008 (full text, PDF)

ICJ compilation in sexual orientation and gender identity in human rights law

ICJ compilation in sexual orientation and gender identity in human rights law

Dec 19, 2007

The ICJ third compilation on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Human Rights Law contains excerpts of jurisprudential, legislative and doctrinal references from the Council of Europe and the European Union. It is meant to frame an informed debate on the Human Rights concerns of SOGI in Europe as well as to be a resource for Human Rights defenders working on these issues. An index and keywords before each case facilitate the navigation in the numerous documents.

sexual orientation gender identity law CoE EU-publication-2007 (full text, PDF)

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