Founded in 2017, Intersex Russia ''(

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:'' ''Интерсекс Россия)'', also known as OII Russia, based in Moscow, Russia, is an organization working to spread awareness on topics of

intersex Intersex people are those born with any of several sex characteristics, including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical binar ...

, providing accurate and positive representation of the intersex community and the issues intersex people are facing, fighting pathologization and medicalization and providing support for intersex people.

Irene Kuzemko Irene Kuzemko (; ), also transcribed from Ukrainian and Russian as Irina Kuzemko, is a Russian- Ukrainian intersex woman and intersex human rights activist. She co-founded Intersex Russia in 2017, is a youth member of interACT, and an executive ...

is a co-founder of Intersex Russia.

Mission

The organisation mission is to provide accurate and positive representation of the intersex community in Russia, to raise awareness about the existence of intersex people and the issues that intersex people face, to make a strong stance for de-pathologization and de-medicalization of the lives of intersex people, to create a strong network of intersex support groups across the country.

Activities

As a result of Intersex Russia's work and advocacy in

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and in

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during the third cycle of

Universal Periodic Review The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a mechanism of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (HRC) that emerged from the 2005 UN reform process.resolution 60/251of 3 April 2006, the UPR periodically examines the human rights performance of a ...

, during the 30th Session of Universal Periodic Review of Russian Federation on May 14, 2018 Russia received its first ever specific intersex recommendation from

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. This recommendation is one of the very few specific intersex recommendations ever given during the three UPR cycles to date. The recommendation states: Russian Government did not accept this recommendation and because of it, on September 21, 2018, when the United Nations held a session about the outcome of Universal Periodic Review of Russian Federation, Helen Nolan from International Service for Human Rights delivered OII Russia's joint oral statement with ISHR about the recommendation.

Affiliations

Intersex Russia is affiliated to

Organisation Intersex International The Organisation Intersex International (OII) is a global advocacy and support group for people with intersex traits. According to Milton Diamond, it is the world's largest organization of intersex persons. A decentralised network, OII was founded ...

References

{{LGBT in Russia Intersex rights in Russia Intersex support groups Intersex rights organizations

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