Human Rights Commission

The Human Rights Commission’s work supporting sexual orientation and gender identity human rights issues includes:

• a booklet  Born Free and Equal: A quick guide to sexual orientation, sex and gender identity
• a paper on marriage and adoption equality (June 2012)
• a chapter on the rights of sexual and gender minorities in Human Rights in New Zealand 2010
• holding a Transgender Inquiry (www.hrc.co.nz/transgenderinquiry ) and working with others to implement its recommendations
• putting out the To Be Who I Am e-newsletter updating people on that progress
• hosting two Intersex Roundtables
• working with other national human rights institutions in the Asia Pacific region on these issues, including by hosting a Yogyakarta Principles Forum at the Outgames human rights conference
• speaking out about publically about human rights issues for sexual and gender minorities.