Victor Madrigal-Borloz

Victor Madrigal-Borloz
United Nations Independent Expert on Protection Against Violence and Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
In office
2018–2023
Appointed byUnited Nations Human Rights Council
Preceded byVitit Muntarbhorn
Succeeded by Graeme Reid

Victor Madrigal-Borloz is a Costa Rican lawyer. Between 2018 and 2023, he served as the United Nations Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity (UN IE SOGI). 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, criminalization, socio-cultural exclusion, anti-trans rhetoric, and the outsized impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable LGBT and gender-diverse populations.

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