Promoting and Protecting Human Rights in relation to Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Sex Characteristics A Manual for National Human Rights Institutions Chapter 4: Being intersex in Asia and the Pacific 4.1. Introduction 65 4.2. Human rights issues 66 4.3. The right to physical integrity 68 4.4. Discrimination 77 4.5. Recognition before the law 80 4.6. Effective remedies and redress 85 Part II International human rights law Chapter 5: International and regional developments in human rights law 87 88 5.1. The universality of all human rights 88 5.2. Legal recognition of the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 89 5.3. The interpretation and application of international human rights law by treaty monitoring bodies 92 5.4. The views and approaches of the special procedures of the Human Rights Council 102 5.5. Sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics in UN political forums 110 5.6. Regional perspectives on law 122 Chapter 6: The Yogyakarta Principles 131 6.1. Introduction 131 6.2. The content: what do the Yogyakarta Principles say? 134 6.3. What the Yogyakarta Principles do not say 137 6.4. The Yogyakarta Principles since Yogyakarta 142 Part III What national human rights institutions can do 147 Chapter 7: The APF’s response to the Yogyakarta Principles ii 65 148 7.1. Introduction 148 7.2. The APF Yogyakarta Workshop, 2009 149 7.3. The APF Advisory Council of Jurists Advisory Opinion, 2010 152 7.4. ACJ-initiated projects, 2011 156 7.5. The IDLO-UNDP-APF NHRI SOGI project, 2012–13 157 7.6. The APF-UNDP Programme of Action and Support, 2015 158