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Content Type(s): Insight
Topic(s): Intersex, Human Rights, Multilateral Institutions
… all the wonderful organizations here,” in her words, on behalf of intersex people around the world. Called upon spontaneously to take the floor at the UN, intersex activist Magda Rakita of … the brave Polish intersex activist and the UN Secretary-General illuminates a pathway toward a world in which our voices are not silenced, our existence cannot be erased, and influential … ‘Mom, it hurts’. The pain meds weren’t helping, so the doctor said she needed morphine for 3-4 days and that this was normal - but nobody had ever warned me of this. They told me she should …
Content Type(s): News Article
Content Type(s): Insight
Topic(s): Crackdown on Activism
Region(s): Southwest Asia and North Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Central Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, United Nations
Content Type(s): Insight
Topic(s): Emergency Response
Region(s): Asia, Americas, Southwest Asia and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
Content Type(s): Insight
Topic(s): Crackdown on Activism, Legal Discrimination, Law & Policy
Region(s): Europe and Central Asia, Poland
Content Type(s): Insight
Region(s): Southwest Asia and North Africa, Egypt
… and North Africa Egypt Outright International was saddened to hear the news of Sarah Hegazi, a fearless, pioneering queer and feminist Egyptian activist, taking her life on Saturday, 13 June … of severe government persecution after exercising her basic right of freedom of expression - she raised the rainbow flag in Cairo during the Mashrou’ Leila concert in 2017. This expression of existence and solidarity resulted in Sarah being imprisoned for three months, including in solitary confinement. Due to the severity of the psychological and …