Sheherezade Kara – Human Writes

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OHCHR. “Born Free and Equal: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Sex Characteristics in International Human Rights Law.” 2019. United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Kara, S. “Gender is Not an Illness: How Pathologizing Trans People Violates International Human Rights Law.” 2017. GATE.
International expert group. “The Yogyakarta Principles plus 10: Additional Principles and State Obligations on the Application of International Human Rights Law in Relation to sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics to complement the Yogyakarta Principles” November 2017. International Service for Human Rights.
– Cited by the InterAmerican Court on Human Rights in its Advisory Opinion 24 on Costa Rica, and the Supreme Court of India in Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India.
Kara, S. “Partnership for Rights, Inclusivity, Diversity and Equality: A Regional Contextual Analysis of the LGBTI Movement in South and South East Asia.” 2016. Amsterdam: COC Netherlands.
Kara, S. “Reclaiming the Gender Framework: Contextualizing Jurisprudence on Gender Identity in the UN Human Rights Mechanisms.” 2016. Harvard Kennedy School LGBTQ Policy Journal.
Kara, S. "Norms, Case Law and Practices on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Intersex Status in the UN System," in Ending Violence and Other Human Rights Violations Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: A Joint Dialogue of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and United Nations. 2016. Pretoria University Law Press.
Kara, S. “A Policy Landscape of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and the Internet,” in Global Information Society Watch 2015: Sexual Rights and the internet. 2015. Association for Progressive Communications and Hivos.
APC Women's Rights Programme. Briefings on technology-related violence against women.  June 2015. APC-WRP.

S. Kara and the Arcus Foundation. “Faith Efforts at the UN to Advance Human Rights Relating to Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity or Intersex Status.”  April 2015. Arcus Foundation.

S. Kara. “Fighting Fundamentalisms through Faith”. February 2014. Facing Fundamentalisms: Association for Women’s Rights in Development.

(Forthcoming) UNDP. “A regional study of LGBTI civil society engagement with the UN human rights mechanisms.”

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