Victor Madrigal-Borloz | |
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United Nations Independent Expert on Protection Against Violence and Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity | |
Assumed office 2018 | |
Appointed by | United Nations Human Rights Council |
Preceded by | Vitit Muntarbhorn |
Victor Madrigal-Borloz is a Costa Rican lawyer. Since 2018, he has served as the United Nations Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity (UN IE SOGI).[1] During his tenure at the U.N., Madrigal-Borloz has been noted for focusing his Human Rights Council mandate on investigating a broad and intersectional range of issues facing LGBT communities around the world, including conversion therapy,[2] criminalization,[3] socio-cultural exclusion,[4] anti-trans rhetoric,[5] and the outsized impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable LGBT and gender-diverse populations.[6]