‘I am because you are’ – the first ever UN panel on sexual orientation and gender identity

By Emily Gray, Amnesty International’s researcher on sexual orientation and gender identity.
On 7 March 2012, sitting in the Human Rights Council in Geneva, under Barcelò’s oceanic dome, I was excited, and a little apprehensive, to be witness to the first ever formal inter-governmental debate on sexual orientation and gender identity to take place […]