UN Press Release on Argentina's Denial of Intersex Genital Mutilations
By seelenlos on Sunday 20 May 2018, 14:54 - Permalink
A recent >>>
UN Press Release on the review of Argentina reports the Committee
questions and the Argentinian Delegation's (non-)answers on Intersex Genital
Mutilations during the
78th CRC Session, falsely claiming involuntary harmful medical practice
would no longer take place in Argentina, and further denying any obstactles to
access to justice and redress for IGM survivors in Argentina:
« Questions by the Committee Experts
[...] KIRSTEN SANDBERG, Committee Expert and Rapporteur for Argentina, [...] further inquired about measures taken to avoid any medical treatment to assign sex to children before they could assert their own autonomy in that respect. [...]Replies by the Delegation
[...] Regarding the issue of intersex children’s surgical procedures, in order to prevent unwanted interventions, an interdisciplinary medical team could declare that no surgery could take place on intersex babies in the perinatal stage. In certain situations, if a procedure was required, doctors would seek the least invasive route. Also, the delegate continued, no surgeries would be conducted on intersex children until they declared their perceived sex themselves and determined what sort of hormonal treatment they would require. Recent statistics found that
1.4 per centof children associated themselves as intersex. [= lost in simultaneous translation: actually the delegate said "1 in 4 thousand“, see video spanish @ 12:25 – however, a more appropriate figure would be 1-2 in 1 thousand, see 2015 Report, p. 25. ] [...]Questions by the Committee Experts
Following up on the question about intersex children, an Expert asked if there was access to justice for children who had received undesired surgical interventions?
Replies by the Delegation
The delegation said the Argentinian justice system was open to anyone who had a complaint to file, including intersex persons. [...] »
Nonetheless, at StopIGM.org we're hopeful that the Committee won't have put the wool over their eyes, but will honour the strong, substantiated evidence proving the ongoing harmful practice in Argentinian University Children's Hospitals and will issue strong "Concluding Observations" on IGM to the complicit State party after the end of the 78th CRC Session.
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VIDEO: Argentina questioned by UN Committe on the Rights of the
Child
See also:
•
31 UN Reprimands for IGM – and counting ...
•
“Harmful Medical Practice”: UN, COE, ACHPR, IACHR condemn
IGM
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UN Committee for the Rights of the Child (CRC) 2015: IGM = Harmful
Practice
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UN Committee against Torture (CAT) 2015: IGM = Inhuman Treatment or
Torture
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UN Human Rights Committee (HRCttee) condems IGM Practices
• UN Committee on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) condemns IGM
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UN Women's Rights Committe (CEDAW) 2016: IGM = Harmful Practice
>>> Intersex human rights at the UN are under attack!!!
Eliminating IGM practices by holding the perpetrators accountable via well-established applicable human rights frameworks, including Inhuman Treatment and Harmful Practices – Presentation @ UN expert meeting on Intersex Human Rights