Rights Aotearoa
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Rights Aotearoa is Aotearoa's leading NGO championing the universal human rights of all kiwis with a particular focus on the rights of transgender, non-binary, and intersex people.
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![Statement on the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission: Violation of the Paris Principles and erosion of protections for transgender and intersex people
Released on 5 September 2025
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention & Human Security calls on the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) to withdraw accreditation from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) in Great Britain due to violations of the Paris Principles and the erosion of protections for transgender and intersex people. The EHRC is Britain’s independent equality and human rights regulator. It currently has an “A status” accreditation as a National Human Rights Institution (NHRI), bestowed by GANHRI, which is co-funded by the United Nations and European Union. To maintain accreditation as an NHRI, an organisation needs to follow the Paris Principles. The Lemkin Institute believes that the EHRC has violated the Paris Principles, particularly in actions targeting the rights and protections for transgender and intersex people. The most recent example of such actions is the appointment of Dr. Mary-Ann Stephenson as the new EHRC Chair, contrary to the advice of the two committees involved in the appointment: the Women and Equalities and Joint Human Rights Committees.
While the EHRC is supposed to be a neutral and non-partisan public body, in the past few years it has behaved as a lobby group for erasing the rights of intersex and trans people on the basis of gender critical views. This has been explicitly confirmed by the leader of the UK’s Official Opposition, Kemi Badenoch, who posted on X (formerly Twitter): “having gender-critical men and women in the UK government, holding the positions that mattered most in Equalities and Health [...] It was when the ministers changed that everything changed.” One example of this takeover Badenoch shamelessly boasted about is the appointment of Baroness Falkner of Margravine under the Conservative Government headed by Liz Truss.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nvxhgtazn43vuzvgjroxhlch/bafkreieckwoe75za2zzu2l2ywlqrfaqwbjsvvehwdpv72q5lq2fbxgvq6u@jpeg)
