Victor Madrigal-Borloz, “From Wars Against Diversity to Inclusive Peace: Violence and Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Armed Conflict”
1414 E 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
United States
Victor Madrigal-Borloz is a Costa Rican human rights lawyer and the UN Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. During his tenure at the U.N., Madrigal-Borloz has been noted for focusing his mandate on investigating a broad and intersectional range of issues facing LGBT communities around the world, including conversion therapy, criminalization, socio-cultural exclusion, anti-trans rhetoric, and the outsized impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable LGBT and gender-diverse populations. Madrigal-Borloz is a senior visiting researcher at the Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program and former member of the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture.
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