Sexual orientation

Precedents

2009 ECOSOC Resolution on UNAIDS

• “Wel­comes the pro­mul­ga­tion of the UNAIDS Action Frame­work: Uni­ver­sal Access for Men Who Have Sex with Men and Trans­gen­der Peo­ple, and the fol­low-up action that is already under way, and calls on the Joint Pro­gramme and other part­ners to sup­port fur­ther action and strengthen part­ner­ships to address the polit­i­cal, social, legal and eco­nomic bar­ri­ers to uni­ver­sal access, as part of the agreed Uni­fied Bud­get and Work­plan pri­or­i­ties.” (para­graph 20)

Expert precedents

2022 Report of the Independent Expert on SOGI: Practices of Exclusion

• “In Myan­mar, United Nations inves­ti­ga­tors con­cluded that trans­gen­der peo­ple of Rohingya eth­nic­ity were tar­geted by author­i­ties with sex­ual vio­lence, report­edly because of their gen­der and sex­ual ori­en­ta­tion, and that the sex­ual vio­lence against trans per­sons amounted to crimes against human­ity of tor­ture, rape, other inhu­mane acts and per­se­cu­tion as part of the wide­spread and sys­tem­atic attack against the Rohingya civil­ian pop­u­la­tion.” (para­graph 29)

• “Anti-gen­der nar­ra­tives cre­ate sig­nif­i­cant risk for the fur­ther­ance of the rights of women and can fos­ter vio­lence and dis­crim­i­na­tion based on sex­ual ori­en­ta­tion and gen­der iden­tity.” (para­graph 41)

• “Gen­der iden­tity and gen­der expres­sion pro­vide actual or per­ceived links to sex­ual ori­en­ta­tion that are often at the ori­gin of stigma and vio­lence, a con­clu­sion which many United Nations and regional human rights mech­a­nisms have also reached.” (para­graph 50)