Part of our Everyday Work NHRI Guidelines for Mainstreaming SOGISC Work ENDNOTES 1 Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions and the United Nations Development Programme (June 2016), Promoting and Protecting Human Rights in relation to Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Sex Characteristics: A Manual for National Human Rights Institutions. At: www.asiapacificforum.net/resources/manual-sogi-and-sex-charactersitics/. 2 A few examples from this region are hijra and khwaja sira from South Asia, waria and kathoey from South East Asia, and fa’afafine, and takatāpui from the Pacific. 3 Note: This resource was developed before the term ‘sex characteristics’ was widely used, and uses ‘sex’ instead. 4 Report of the Economic and Social Council for 1997 (A/52/3, 18 September 1997). 5 At: www.asiapacificforum.net/resources/manual-on-women-and-girls/. 6 OHCHR, Fact Sheet: Intersex, 2015. At: www.unfe.org/intersex-awareness/. 7 CRC/C/NPL/CO/3-5, pp. 10-11, paras. 41-42; and CRC/C/NZL/CO/5, pp. 4-5 and 8, paras 15 and 25. 8 CAT/C/AUS/QPR/6. See also: https://oii.org.au/31079/un-cat-loipr-2016/. 9 CAT/C/NZL/QPR/7, p 6, para 32. At: http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CAT/Shared%20Documents/NZL/CAT_C_NZL_ QPR_7_24920_E.pdf. 10 At: www.hrc.co.nz/news/intersex-roundtable-report/. 11 At: www.humanrights.gov.au/news/stories/intersex-rights-are-human-rights. 12 International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission [now Outright Action International] (2014) Violence: Through the lens of lesbians, bisexual women and trans people in Asia. At: www.outrightinternational.org/content/violence-through-lens-lbt-people-asia. 13 Sections 67 and 68, Crimes Act 2013. 14 Section 71, Crimes Act 2013. 15 OHCHR, National Human Rights Institutions: History, Principles, Roles and Responsibilities, Professional Training Series No. 4 (Rev. 1), 2010, p. 7. Read more in Chapter 1 of the APF’s A Manual on National Human Rights Institutions. At: www.asiapacificforum.net/ resources/manual-on-nhris/. 16 The Yogyakarta Principles are set out in full in Appendix 4 of the APF SOGISC manual. They are available in all six UN languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish and Russian). At: www.yogyakartaprinciples.org/. 17 APF and UNDP Programme of Action and Support, Recommendation 5, refers to the visibility and explicit inclusion of SOGI in internal planning processes. 18 APF and UNDP Programme of Action and Support, Recommendation 2. 19 APF and UNDP Programme of Action and Support, Recommendation 1. 20 APF and UNDP Programme of Action and Support, Recommendation 3. 21 APF and UNDP, Programme of Action and Support: The role of national human rights institutions in promoting and protecting human rights in relation to sexual orientations and gender identity including health rights in the Asia and the Pacific (2015). At: www. asiapacificforum.net/resources/programme-action-and-support-nhri-sogi-2015/. The Programme of Action and Support is also reproduced in Section 6 of the APF/UNDP SOGISC manual. It did not use the term sex characteristics to highlight the specific experiences of intersex people. The priority actions in this section have been expanded to include a focus on the human rights of intersex people too. 22 UNDP/PGA (2017). Advancing the Human Rights and Inclusion of LGBTI People: A Handbook for Parliamentarians, pages 28 and 29. At: www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/librarypage/democratic-governance/parliamentary_development/advancing-the-humanrights-and-inclusion-of-lgbti-people--a-hand.html. 23 Speech to the Asia Pacific Forum and United Nations Development Programme Conference on the Yogyakarta Principles: What we have learnt and where to now?, 25-26 April 2017, Bangkok, Thailand. 24 For details, see the extensive case study on pages 191-193 of the APF manual. 25 APF and UNDP Programme of Action and Support, Recommendation 8. 26 Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (2013) Human Rights Education: A Manual for National Human Rights Institutions. 27 APF and UNDP Programme of Action and Support, Recommendation 16. 28 APF and UNDP Programme of Action and Support, Recommendation 13. 29 APF and UNDP Programme of Action and Support, Recommendation 14. 30 APF and UNDP Programme of Action and Support, Recommendation 15. 31 APF and UNDP Programme of Action and Support, Recommendation 17. 32 APF and UNDP Programme of Action and Support, Recommendation 18. 33 APF and UNDP Programme of Action and Support, Recommendation 19. 27