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deutsch >>>
http://intersex.schattenbericht.org
>>> CRC
Chronology 2014/15 + Thematic Swiss NGO Report on IGMs
NGO
Report to the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Periodic Report of Switzerland on the Convention
on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
Compiled by:
Child Rights Network Switzerland
Entry on Intersex:
Zwischengeschlecht.org
Submitted in March 2014.
The Pre-Session on Switzerland will be in June 2014, the Review in January
2015.
>>> Chrolonogy
The entry on Intersex Genital Mutilations on p. 25–26 of the NGO
Report:
4.6 Protection against abuse: Genital
mutilation
Assessment by the Child Rights Network Switzerland
[Intersex Genital Mutilations]
Since 1950, children with atypical sex anatomies (intersex, DSD,
hermaphrodites) are systematically subjected to irreversible, medically
unnecessary interventions in an attempt to fix their sex. Such interventions
include cosmetic genital surgery, castration, sterilisation and hormone
treatment. Swiss clinics were significantly involved in the global propagation
of “genital correction surgeries”. As female sex organs are surgically easier
to shape than male organs, most children were made into girls, often by
amputating their “enlarged” clitoris. Parents were misinformed, kept in the
dark and received no appropriate support. Treatment of such nature leads to
serious physical and psychological complications. For the last 20 years,
victims and NGOs have been criticising these interventions as a massive
violation of human rights, including the right to physical integrity,
denouncing them as “intersex genital mutilation”. The UN-Committees CEDAW and
CAT, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture (SRT), the UN High Commissioner for
Human Rights (UNHCHR), the Council of Europe (COE) and the National Advisory
Commission on Biomedical Ethics (NEK) criticise these interventions as a
violation of human rights and demand legislative measures (NEK, SRT, COE),
historical reappraisal, acknowledgement by society of suffering inflicted (NEK)
and compensation for victims (NEK, CAT).
The Child Rights Network Switzerland recommends that the
Committee oblige Switzerland:
–– to implement the full range of recommendations by the National
Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics “On the management of differences of
sex development” (intersex, DSD), to consider legislative measures banning
cosmetic genital surgery on intersex children, to conduct a historical
appraisal of the human rights violations inflicted on intersex children and
youth in society, and to compensate victims in an appropriate manner;
(Unfortunately, all the subheaders in the section on mutilation were 'lost
in translation.')
In addition, Zwischengeschlecht.org successfully requested that on p. 15 of
the report (regarding Discrimination) "Intersex" was not only mentioned in the
assessment, but the "I" also added in the subheading and in the
recommendations. 
Thanks!
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Chronology 2014/15 + Thematic Swiss NGO Report on IGMs
NGO Report to the 3rd to 5th Periodic Report of Nepal on the
Convention on the Rights of the Child
(CRC)
Endorsement and Substantiation of Nepal Intersex
NGO Report (CRC 72)
“Intersex Genital
Mutilations, Stigma and Bullying in Nepal”
Shadow Report to the
5th Periodic Report of the Federal Republic of