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Human Rights and Gender Identity: Best Practice Catalogue

by Silvan Agius, Richard Köhler, Sophie Aujean, Julia Ehrt

05.12.2011

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Human Rights and Gender Identity: Best Practice Catalogue is a civil society follow-up to the pioneering work of the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg, and his 2009 Issue Paper entitled Human Rights and Gender Identity.

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Silvan Agius, Richard Köhler, Sophie Aujean, Julia Ehrt

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