7. LGBTI A. Human Rights Status 2022 LGBTI refers to any person with an identity that is not gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, or other non-heterosexual or cisgender.417)418) The human rights of LGBTI people are mainly related to the realization of the right to equality and the right to pursue happiness in that they are the resistance to discrimination and exclusion based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity have been around for a long time. After a long history of discrimination, on May 17, 1990, WHO removed homosexuality from the list of mental disorders, and in 2018, transgender was also removed from the list of mental disorders. The UN has designated May 17 as the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) to commemorate the WHO's decision to remove homosexuality from the list of mental disorders. The international community of more than 130 countries, including Korea, commemorate this day by reflecting on the past discrimination against LGBTI people.419) Sexual orientation and gender identity are prohibited grounds for discrimination under the international human rights law, and major international organizations, including OHCHR, ILO, IOM and UNESCO, etc., are also working to protect and promote the human rights of LGBTI. In 2016, the UN Human Rights Commission established a new position of an expert on LGBTI human rights to investigate human rights violations, discrimination, and violence against LGBTI around the world.420) Korea received 22 recommendations related to the human rights of LGBTI in the 2018 UN Human Rights Council's universal periodic review (UPR), but rejected all.421) Socially, 417) A person whose gender identity corresponds with the sex registered for them at birth 418) Ashley Mardell, ABS’s of LGBTQ+, 2016. 419) Statement of the Commissioner of NHRCK, IDAHOBIT, May 17, 2022. 420) Kyunghyang Shinmun Press Release, Oct. 2, 2016, Muntarbhorn Appointed as the First UN Independent Expert on Human Rights of LGBTI. 421) Hope and Law Webpage, “From Geneva ahead of Korea’s 4th Universal Periodic Review,” Dec. 28, 2022.. 180