Making Room for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in International Human Rights Law: An Introduction to the Yogyakarta Principles.

2010Michigan Journal of International Law, Brown

In November of 2006 a group of international human rights law experts met in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, to draft the Yogyakarta Principles on the Application of International Human Rights Law in Relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (Yogyakarta Principles).’ In twenty-nine principles, the document purports to “reflect the existing state of international human rights law in relation to issues of sexual orientation and gender identity.’

Key wordshuman rights / LGBTIQ

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