A/HRC/19/41
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
17 November 2011
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Nineteenth session
Agenda items 2 and 8
Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the
High Commissioner and the Secretary-General
Follow-up and implementation of the Vienna Declaration
and Programme of Action
Discriminatory laws and practices and acts of violence
against individuals based on their sexual orientation and
gender identity
Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights*
Summary
The present report is submitted to the Human Rights Council pursuant to its
resolution 17/19, in which the Council requested the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights to commission a study documenting discriminatory laws and practices
and acts of violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender
identity, and how international human rights law can be used to end violence and related
human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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GE.11-17075
Owing to the length of the present report, the footnotes thereto are reproduced in the
language of submission only.