Over the last decade, intersex human rights issues have received increasing attention at the international level. Largely thanks to the work of intersex human rights defenders, there is greater understanding by international human rights mechanisms as to the harms facing intersex people performed or condoned by states and other actors. As a consequence, there has been an increased amount of work undertaken to acknowledge how international human rights law relates to the rights of intersex people, including via public awareness campaigns and targeted recommendations directed at states to change practices that violate the rights of intersex people. This paper seeks to outline how international human rights law addresses the rights of intersex people. It further considers how intersex issues are framed by the human rights system.