Various agendas already existed in different parts of Europe, in the United States, at the nation-state level, but a global agenda that articulates the demands of the LGBTI rights movement in the human rights language, that was really the main goal of meeting. I knew it was going to be a meeting of distinguished experts and activists basically aimed at coming up with a human rights agenda for the LGBTI rights movement in the global South. So I ticked some of the boxes in terms of representation. But at the time they wanted a young activist in the room, somebody from Eastern Europe. It was only after the process was over that I really understood what it was all about. Maxim Anmeghichean: I was very young at the time, just in my mid-twenties, and I did not know about these principles.
Could you tell us more about the history of the Yogyakarta Principles and how this meeting came about? How did the idea to create these principles originate? And what were the main reasons behind the initiative? Ten years after the creation of the Yogyakarta Principles, “Principles on the Application of International Human Rights Law in Relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity”, Caroline Ausserer speaks with Maxim Anmeghichean, one of the experts that elaborated them.Ĭaroline Ausserer: You were part of the team of human rights experts who elaborated the Yogyakarta Principles at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in November 2006.
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