Celebrating 10 years of the Yogyakarta Principles: What have we learnt and where to now?
the various review processes of these conferences. Since 2002, and along with Richard Parker, Sonia
co-chairs Sexuality Policy Watch a global forum comprised of researchers and activists engaged in
the analyses of global trends in sexuality politics. In 2006, she co-chaired the expert meeting that
elaborated the Yogyakarta Principles for the Application of International Human Rights Law in relation
to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. She has extensively published in Portuguese and English.
This list includes, amongst others, Population and Reproductive Rights: Feminist Perspectives from the
South (Zed Books, 1994) and Sexuality, Health and Human Rights co-authored with Richard Parker and
Rosalind Petchesky (Routledge, 2008). Amongst other academic engagements, she has been granted
a Leverhulme professorship at the Gender Institute of the London School of Economics for 2016–2017.
Sonia has degree in Architecture and a postgraduate in Anthropology. Sonia is Brazilian.
Midnight Poonkasetwattana
Executive Director, APCOM Foundation
Midnight is Executive Director of APCOM with many years of experience working in multi-sectorial
partnerships with governments, donors and the United Nations. Midnight particularly enjoys working
with community groups and civil society organisations to build their capacity to better promote the rights
of gender and sexual minorities. Midnight is a member of various advisory and steering committees,
including the global IDAHOT committee and the Freedom House’s Dignity for All. Midnight obtained his
Bachelor’s Degree in Development Studies from the University of East Anglia. Midnight completed his
Masters in Globalisation and Development at the School of Oriental and African Studies through the
University of London.
Nadika Nadja
Working Group Member, Sampoorna
Nadika is a non-binary writer and researcher with interests in history, archaeology, city and urban spaces,
gender, and the internet. She is also a working group member of Sampoorna, a network of trans and
intersex Indians.
Hiker Chiu
Founder, OII Chinese
Hiker is an intersex human rights activist from Taiwan, the founder of OII-Chinese (2008) and Intersex
Asia since 2013. OII-Chinese is an intersex-led organisation and a platform for Chinese-speaking
intersex people to receive information, awareness, connection and peer support. It is also an advocacy
organisation for intersex. Hiker came out as an intersex to raise public awareness of intersex by initiating
the “Global Free Hugs with Intersex Movement” at the 8th Taipei Pride Parade 2010. Being the only Asian
delegate in the first and second World Intersex Forums held by ILGA, Hiker is devoted to working on
building the intersex community in Asia. Hiker is on the Astraea Intersex Human Rights Fund Advisory
Board and an ILGA Asia co-chair. Hiker is a Ph.D. candidate of the Graduate School of Human Sexuality,
Shu-Te University, Taiwan.
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