Report on meeting with UN Independent Expert on SOGI - LGB Alliance

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LGB Alliance will be releasing these notes to the press to ensure that the positions you hold on sex and gender are available to the public.

Since your mandate as UN Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity includes sexual orientation, it should include protecting those who are sexually attracted to people of the same sex, who are criminalised and face numerous threats worldwide. It is therefore a matter of serious concern that you remain ignorant about many of the threats to homosexuals and indeed spread disinformation about them. LGB Alliance believes your influence has therefore been harmful – not only to homosexuals and bisexuals, but to all who support the rule of law in a liberal democracy. LGB Alliance has observed you seeking to undermine the work of members of the UK parliament at Westminster and the Scottish parliament at Holyrood, and the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission, by spreading disinformation on international human rights law versus UK domestic law.

LGB Alliance will be sharing these notes with Marcial Boo, Chief Executive of the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission, HE Simon Manley, the UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, and HE Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, so that all are clear about your activist positions and activities – rather than the independent role that is intended. In addition, LGB Alliance will be lobbying for the appointment of a truly independent expert – of a re- titled mandate.

Full letter https://lgballiance.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Report-on-meeting-Thu-4-May-2023.pdf

Intro letter https://lgballiance.org.uk/open-letter-to-un-independent-expert-on-sogi/
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See earlier thread https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4717341-formal-complaint-to-the-un-by-lgb-alliance

Interesting twitter thread https://twitter.com/AllianceLGB/status/1656310428388007936

Fair Play for Women report of their meeting with the United Nations Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity https://fairplayforwomen.com/meeting-the-united-nations-independent-expert-on-sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity/

WDI.US is having a demo on Sunday 14th (Mother's day in the US) outside the UN

https://twitter.com/WDI_USA/status/1652031281897836544

https://thecritic.co.uk/who-took-the-so-out-of-sogi/

https://www.voidifremoved.co.uk/p/ilga-europe-turns-the-screw

re the article in the Critic

It really does illlustrate how really dangerous it is to give a post like this to someone with a personal agenda.

It seems extraordinary that the UN, which in terms of world politics will debate for days, and allow a few elite countries the right of veto, that a lone individual can get a post that has global influence and then totally abuse that position.

How do they make these appointments?

I wonder if there is any way of finding out and making comments about ensuring impartiality.

I think this is the link that explains the roles of Special Rapporteurs https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures-human-rights-council/special-procedures-human-rights-council

and https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/sp/nominations

And see from the list of current vacancies that they have combined sexual orientation with gender identity https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/sp/hrc54