Английская Википедия:Association of the Russian Speaking Intersex

Содержание

Текст

Текст

Текст

Текст

Текст

Текст

Текст

Текст

Текст

The Association of the Russian Speaking Intersex (ARSI) (Шаблон:Lang-ru) the first Russian intersex human rights organization. It is the unregistered non-governmental organization. It was founded in August 2013 by Aleksander Berezkin, a Russian intersex man, asylum seeker and intersex human rights activist. The organization provides psychological and legal support to intersex people in Russia and other post-Soviet countries, provides lectures and seminars, speaks in the media

Mission

The organisation mission is to improve the well-being of intersex-people in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. To raise awareness about intersex people, promote the full realization of their human rights, and provide informational, psychological, legal, and other types of support on intersex issues.

History

The organization was founded in August 2013 by Aleksander Berezkin after consulting with Julia Pustovit, the first modern intersex advocate in Eastern Europe. Thus, it became the first intersex organization in Russia, not counting the forum intersex.su.

First it was organized in a form of closed information group in Facebook and then it was transformated into humen rights organization. ARSI has since recruited lawyers and other professionals. One of such persons, lawyer Ilia Saveliev, currently is a co-director of ARSI. Among other members of ARSI was also Irene Kuzemko, who founded her own intersex human rights organization in 2017.

Activities

2021

ARSI launched a portal for parents of intersex children

2020

In 2020 ARSI and other 32 intersex human rights organizations around the world welcomed Austrian statement urging the authorities to investigate human rights violations and abuses against intersex people. Also they called on the UN Human Rights Council to take further action to protect the autonomy of intersex people.

ARSI lawer and co-director Ilia Saveliev gave comments for Russian newspapers (Kommersant and Moskovskij Komsomolets) and BBC regarding laws applied in Russia that violates the rights of trans and intersex people.

ARSI members took part in first Russian Intersex Conference organized by "Interseks.ru" (Шаблон:Lang-ru)

2019

On March, 2019, ARSI organized the round table "Intersex and the trans* movement: towards cooperation”, held in St. Petersburg.

In 2019 ARSI published a book "My intersex child: Manual for parents of intersex children" (Шаблон:Lang-ru)

2018

In 2018 ARSI published several books: “Intersex people: questions and answers” (Шаблон:Lang-ru), "“Beyond male and female: intersex people rights”, manual for lawyers" (Шаблон:Lang-ru), Russian translation of Georgiann Davis book "“Contesting intersex”"

Selected bibliography

• Шаблон:Cite book
• Шаблон:Cite book
• Шаблон:Cite book
• Шаблон:Cite book