A/HRC/44/53*
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
1 May 2020
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-fourth session
15 June–3 July 2020
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Practices of so-called “conversion therapy”
Report of the Independent Expert on protection against violence and
discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity**
Summary
The present report is submitted to the Human Rights Council pursuant to Council
resolutions 32/2 and 41/18. In it, the Independent Expert on protection against violence and
discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, Victor Madrigal-Borloz,
explores practices of so-called “conversion therapy” across the globe, including their
impact on victims, their human rights implications and their connection with violence and
discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as measures adopted
to prevent them and to penalize or prosecute those who perform them and remedies
provided to victims.
* Reissued for technical reasons on 9 July 2020.
** Agreement was reached to publish the present report after the standard publication date owing to
circumstances beyond the submitter’s control.
GE.20-06294(E)