A/HRC/47/27
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
3 June 2021
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-seventh session
21 June–9 July 2021
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
The law of inclusion
Report of the Independent Expert on protection against violence and
discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, Victor
Madrigal-Borloz*, **
Summary
The present report is submitted to the Human Rights Council pursuant to Council
resolutions 32/2 and 41/18. The Independent Expert on protection against violence and
discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, Victor Madrigal-Borloz,
analyses the current state of international human rights law in relation to the recognition of
gender and gender identity and expression, in connection with the struggle against violence
and discrimination in its different forms. The present report and the report to the General
Assembly at its seventy-sixth session complement each other. Annex 1 contains a description
of activities that have taken place since May 2020, and annex 2 provides an outline of the
report to the General Assembly.
* The present report was submitted after the deadline to allow consideration of the large number of
submissions received.
** The annexes to the present report are circulated as received, in the language of submission only.
GE.21-07193(E)