Campaign for Change (CfC) is a nonprofit, non-governmental organization, working to improve the situation of intersex people in Nepal.
Campaign for Change (CfC) founded in 11 May 2017, is a nonprofit, non-governmental organization, working to improve the situation of intersex people in Nepal. Campaign for Change adopts a holistic approach and aims to promote physical, mental, social well-being of intersex people. Campaign for Change’s purpose is to represent interest of intersex people, collect data and evidence to report on human rights violence and provide legal support and redress. Apart from working to improve access to education, health, employment, equal and active participants of intersex people. CfC also works to raise awareness and end Intersex Genital Mutilation (IGM) practices and other human rights violations perpetrated on Intersex people. Also, we raise intersex human rights issues to Nepal government through UN bodies, especially CRC, CEDAW, and for UPR. We have been raising intersex human rights issues by conducting orientation program in different organization and institution and participating to public event such as Pride Marches. We are very involved in community work, with the support of Intersex Asia: they organize a 3–days intersex community workshop, with 15 intersex participants. The participants of this workshop published a statement in English and Nepali. We have supported many community members urgent needs during Covid–19.
Associacao Brasileira de Intersexos (ABRAI) was formed in 2015 from a group of intersex people with the mission of bringing visibility, informing, educating, and supporting intersex people and families.
ABRAI was formed in 2015 from a group of intersex people with the mission of bringing visibility, informing, educating, and supporting intersex people and families. They do advocacy work towards the Municipal Health Secretariat of São Paulo and the National Council of Justice; awareness–raising work with internet lives, webinar and intersex conferences; and community–building and support by funding social actions.
On June 15, 2020, ABRAI- Brazilian Intersex Association was regularized through CNPJ 37.408.495 / 0001-00. ABRAI arises from the initiative of several Intersex activists and allies to the cause. Shay, Amiel, Alex, Haru, Ernesto, Dionne and Jéssica talk about the need for formal representation, initially called UBI – União Brasileira Intersexo. Thais, as the mother of an Intersex baby, sought an association when Jacob was born and did not find it, she also feels the need for an association. Thus, different activists and an intersex mother in the same cause create ABRAI – Associação Brasileira Intersexo.
VIMÖ started in 2013. They have as a strong core peer-support and community-building, with dozens of consultation each year, a 4-days training for their counselors, and research on their peer-support work with social work students to improve it.
VIMÖ started in 2013. They have as a strong core peer–support and community–building, with dozens of consultation each year, a 4–days training for their counselors, and research on their peer–support work with social work students to improve it. They ensure online community meetings since the pandemic. They also do awareness–raising via social media/media and provide educational (online) trainings. Therefore they started a training and peer-counseling platform, www.varges.at. Regarding advocacy, they work closely with the Green Party in the national government and pursue a human rights based policy to ensure the protection and rights of intersex people, especially children. Thanks to their work, the Ministry of Interior released a new edict regarding the third gender marker, but there’s still work to do since the edict is still pathologising and trans/non-binary-excluding.
Founded in 2012, kolekTIRV (ex-Trans Aid) is the first trans group to form in Croatia, working to create a just society that includes the right to gender and sex self-determination.
kolekTIRV (ex-Trans Aid) was formed in 2012 to support the needs of the community. It is the first organisation in Croatia dealing specifically with the rights of trans and intersex persons. Last year, they succeeded in securing a first paid position for the intersex coordinator of the intersex project and a stable intersex program. They engage in community support with online counseling, and with hosting the 2019 European Intersex Community Event and Conference. They are also involved in awareness–raising with training in high schools and social media campaigns with original content and translations from OII Europe content. They are also helping researching the hospitals practices on intersex children in Croatia.
NNID was founded in 2013 to focus on the non-medical issues and interests of people with an intersex condition/DSD.
NNID was founded in 2013 to focus on the non-medical issues and interests of people with an intersex condition/DSD. Its mission is to promote the recognition of sex as a continuum, without taboo and without social or medical stereotyping. The organization’s priorities include ending unnecessary medical surgeries and treatment, creating greater access to funding for intersex rights-related work, including intersex within education curricula, and changing the medical discourse. NNID works to advance the equal rights, emancipation and visibility of people with an intersex condition by convening stakeholders through a “participation board” and raising awareness through the media. The participation board brings together intersex patient groups, governmental institutions, LGBT advocacy groups, “knowledge institutions” and healthcare institutions to inform NNID’s advocacy to government. NNID is currently working to establish an Intersex/DSD Alliance that will create space for organizations to work together on projects to promote the human rights of intersex people and build the capacity of organizations in the process.
Check out our 2016 Intersex Awareness Day video, featuring NNID Executive Director Miriam van der Have:
The Rainbow Identity Association is a trans and intersex-led organization working to build strong, active and resilient transgender and intersex communities in Botswana and improve their lived realities.
Rainbow Identity Association was formed in 2008 to address challenges faced by trans and intersex communities in Botswana. They are facilitating referrals for health care focusing on mental health specialists and counsellors and for psychosocial support, sexual and reproductive health care, rehabilitation centres for drug and alcohol abuse; they are also disseminating information and providing training relating to HIV and STIs including information on HIV and STI prevention, treatment, care and support, disseminating HIV barrier products specifically geared towards the needs of transgender and intersex bodies. They provide legal referral assistance by linking up the persons who need legal advice or representation relating to the protection and promotion of their gender identity and expression rights. They promote advocacy through workshops for community organisers, activists, police, health workers, politicians, and other leaders, and information sessions for transgender and intersex people outlining their human rights. They are working in advancing trans and intersex issues in civic and legal platforms. During covid-19 they organized a webinar on the impact of the pandemic on trans and intersex people.
Pidgeon Pagonis is an intersex artist and activist who has worked for almost a decade researching, advocating and educating a wide range of audiences about intersex issues and rights, and the movement for bodily autonomy and justice.
Pidgeon Pagonis is an intersex artist and activist who has worked for almost a decade researching, advocating and educating a wide range of audiences about intersex issues and rights, and the movement for bodily autonomy and justice. In 2013, they began work on their documentary, The Son I Never Had, which gives an inside look at one intersex person’s experience. The film weaves narration, recorded conversations, and medical records with photos, video and animation, in the hopes of compelling viewers to take action against the human rights violations incurred by intersex people.
Oii-Chinese was established in 2008 to provide Chinese-speaking intersex people information created by intersex people and to bring intersex people together for peer support.
Oii–Chinese was established in 2008 to provide Chinese–speaking intersex people information created by intersex people and to bring intersex people together for peer support. They provide support for Chinese–speaking intersex people through an online group, especially with the pandemic and its impact on mental health. They also wrote an article as part of the calling on “advocate, protect and ensure the LGBTI rights to be respected” from the UN human rights experts for the CEAW review invited to Taiwan. They produced a 20,000 words document about intersex human rights issues that was then included in the curriculum for civil servants in Taiwan. They then gave a lecture on the topic to civil servants at a national level as well as high school teachers. Check out a video interview with Oii-Chinese’s Founder Hiker Chiu: Hiker was also featured in our 2016 Intersex Awareness Day video:
OII Germany was founded in 2008 to work on ending non-consensual, medically unnecessary and cosmetic interventions forced on intersex children and adults, and to ensure human rights for intersex persons, such as bodily integrity and self-determination.
OII Deutschland was founded in 2008 and is now starting to build a more sustainable structure with its first part–time hirings. They were strongly involved in advocating for the new German government draft legal ban of intersex surgeries, even though the result is underwhelming, due to the influence of patient/parents–oriented groups and medical gate–keepers. Beyond this advocacy work, they also engage in awareness–raising through trainings, such as workshops for teachers on intersex pupils, or workshops for pedagogues and professionals. They also participated in a conference from the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth to inform representatives of German welfare organisations about intersex human rights, as well as a work with the Robert Koch Institut to publish an article on the health of LGBTI people. They are also working with the Institute of Foreign Affairs.
OII Europe was founded in 2012, during the Second International Intersex Forum in Stockholm, to ensure the further adoption of Human Rights for intersex people all over Europe.
OII Europe was founded in 2012, during the Second International Intersex Forum in Stockholm, to ensure the further adoption of Human Rights for intersex people all over Europe. They are building a sustainable organization with an increase in staff hours, which allowed them to organize the 3rd European Intersex Community Event & Conference in September 2019 in Zagreb, with 68 participants -the largest human rights based gathering of intersex people globally to this date. The event was also an opportunity for a 2-day study visit to Ljubljana, Slovenia, where OII Europe Steering Board Members and Staff met with law and policy makers, students and NGOs and gave TV interviews. This visit was a big step towards increasing the visibility of intersex issues in the Balkan region. In 2019 they also published an illustrated testimonial book #MyIntersexStory –Personal accounts by intersex people living in Europe. In 2020 they started a project on Intersex Refugees and Asylum Seekers. They are using social media and infographics to communicate on surveys and findings, and they continue their work of translating their brochures into many European languages. During covid-19 they organize a number of online community events to help keeping up the morale of the European intersex community -such as weekly virtual campfire, where with talks, games, and movies; or daily check-ins on the main community chat and other forms of outreach.
Check out our 2016 Intersex Awareness Day video, featuring OII Europe Co-Chair Miriam van der Have:
