What Are The Yogyakarta Principles?

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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
What Are The Yogyakarta Principles?
Posted by Monica Roberts at 12:00 PM

http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/06/what-are-yogyakarta-principles.html

If you peruse international blogs that cover gender identity and sexual orientation issues, from time to time you'll see a reference to the Yogyakarta Principles.

What are they, you ask? Well, peeps, school is now in session.

In response to well-documented patterns of abuse of GLBT people, from November 6-9, 2006 a distinguished group of international human rights experts met on the campus of Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia to outline a set of international principles relating to sexual orientation and gender identity.