The Growing Visibility of Intersex Demands at the United Nations: A Review of the Treaty Bodies’ Concluding Observations

In recent years, there has been an increasing visibility of intersex people’s issues and experiences human rights violations amongst international institutions monitoring bodies. At the United Nations, to date, are more than 500 treaty bodies’ concluding observations taking notice abuses against persons calling member states fulfil their obligations. This paper follows inclusion in text Nations observations. I looked for explicit mentions word “intersex” report documents reviewed how recommendations these bodies resonate with demands coming from activist groups. found that main included reports concern genital surgeries (IGS), autonomy claims, redress support mechanisms, while have gained visibility, also a number by activists remain less visible, if not invisible altogether. aims at providing evidence awareness over rights.