10 Following the 2016 Intersex Roundtable, the New Zealand Government received four intersex-specific recommendations from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in their concluding observations on the fifth periodic report of New Zealand (page 8, Harmful Practices: 25: (b)(c)(d)(e)): • Develop and implement a child rights-based health care protocol for intersex children, setting the procedures and steps to be followed by health teams, ensuring that no one is subjected to unnecessary medical or surgical treatment during infancy or childhood, guaranteeing the rights of children to bodily integrity, autonomy and selfdetermination, and provide families with intersex children with adequate counselling and support; • Promptly investigate incidents of surgical and other medical treatment of intersex children without informed consent and adopt legal provisions to provide redress to victims of such treatment, including adequate compensation; • Educate and train medical and psychological professionals on the range of biological and physical sexual diversity and on the consequences of unnecessary surgical and other medical interventions on intersex children; • Extend free access to surgical interventions and medical treatment related to their intersex condition to intersex children between the age of 16 and 18. 11  The New Zealand government also received the following request (Article 16, para. 32) by the UN Committee Against Torture in the List of Issues Prior to Reporting (LoIPR) in the 60th session of the committee, 18th April – 12 May 2017: Please comment on reports of premature surgery and other medical treatment to which intersex children are subjected (see the submissions of Intersex Trust Aotearoa New Zealand, and StopIGM.org and Zwischengeschlecht.org to the Committee against Torture in 2017). Please indicate the number of intersex children who have undergone sex assignment surgery during the reporting period. Intersex Roundtable Report 2017 The 2017 Intersex Roundtable 12 The 2017 Roundtable took place on 21 June 2017 in Wellington. 13 Building on the 2016 Intersex Roundtable, the recommendations of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and the request from the UN Committee Against Torture, the objectives for the 2017 Roundtable were to: • Update on progress since the 2016 Roundtable • Identify issues and strategies toward improving the quality of life for intersex people – children and family/whānau • Build understanding and awareness of intersex issues 14 A variety of updates were presented by stakeholders on the progress made on intersex issues in the last 12 months, as detailed in Appendix 2. Presentations covered the fields of human rights, nursing, pediatric endocrinology, whānau advocacy, midwifery, medical education and legislative updates from parliament. 15 Participants shared copies of new publications and position statements with the group prior to the event and these have been compiled in Appendix 3. Roundtable Outcomes 16 The following key themes emerged from the presentations and discussions at the 2017 Roundtable: Bodily integrity • The protection of, and advocacy for, bodily autonomy of intersex persons must remain central to discussions of ending the practice of genital normalisation on intersex children in Aotearoa New Zealand. 3