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Title: Commissioner Hammarberg urges full respect for transgender persons’ human rights
Post by: Butterfly on July 29, 2009, 05:26:28 AM
Commissioner Hammarberg urges full respect for transgender persons' human rights
FOCUS News Agency
29 July 2009


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Strasbourg.  The Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg, urged today full respect for the human rights of transgender persons, the Council of Europe informed. Hammarberg published today an expert Issue Paper on "Human rights and gender identity."