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GENEVA, Switzerland – The United Nations Human Rights Council on Thursday, April 4, voted to adopt a resolution designed to protect the, the first initiative of its kind that diplomats and rights groups described as an landmark moment for human rights. The UN has cited experts as saying that 1.7% of babies are born intersex, defined as having sex characteristics that do not fit binary notions of male or female.
It also requests that the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights publish a report “examining in detail discriminatory laws and policies, acts of violence and harmful practices against persons with innate variations in sex characteristics, in all regions of the world.”