Publication Type:Academic Journal

Source(s):Reproductive health matters [Reprod Health Matters] 2017 Nov; Vol. 25 (51), pp. 151-160. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 Dec 13.

Abstract:In the context of the refugee crisis in Europe, the measures taken by the institutions and bodies of the European Union as they relate to respecting, protecting, and ensuring human rights have proven to be woefully inadequate. The development of a rest...

Publication Type:Academic Journal

Source(s):Reproductive health matters [Reprod Health Matters] 2017 Nov; Vol. 25 (51), pp. 40-47. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 Nov 30.

Abstract:Women and girls are increasingly the direct and targeted victims of armed conflict and studies show that they are disproportionately and differentially affected. However, humanitarian laws, policies, and protocols have yet to be meaningfully interprete...

Publication Type:Academic Journal

Source(s):Reproductive health matters [Reprod Health Matters] 2018 Nov; Vol. 26 (54), pp. 13-19. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Sep 19.

Abstract:This commentary explores how self-managed abortion (SMA) has transformed understandings of and discourses on safe abortion and associated health inequities through an intersection of harm reduction, human rights and collective activism. The article exa...

Publication Type:Academic Journal

Source(s):Reproductive health matters [Reprod Health Matters] 2016 May; Vol. 24 (47), pp. 74-84. Date of Electronic Publication: 2016 Jul 12.

Abstract:Intersex people and bodies have been considered incapable of integration into society. Medical interventions on often healthy bodies remain the norm, addressing perceived familial and cultural demands, despite concerns about necessity, outcomes, conduc...

Publication Type:Academic Journal

Source(s):Reproductive health matters [Reprod Health Matters] 2015 Nov; Vol. 23 (46), pp. 7-15. Date of Electronic Publication: 2015 Dec 10.

Abstract:Although past resistance to sexual rights in global debates has often been grounded in claims to culture, nation and religion, opposition voices are now using, rather than rejecting, the frame of international human rights. This Commentary argues that,...

Publication Type:Academic Journal

Source(s):Reproductive health matters [Reprod Health Matters] 2015 Nov; Vol. 23 (46), pp. 16-30. Date of Electronic Publication: 2015 Dec 13.

Abstract:This Guide seeks to provide insight and resources to actors interested in the development of rights claims around sexuality and sexual health. After engaging with the vexed question of the scope of sexual rights, it explores the rules and principles go...

Publication Type:Academic Journal

Source(s):Reproductive health matters [Reprod Health Matters] 2016 May; Vol. 24 (47), pp. 195-204. Date of Electronic Publication: 2016 Jul 16.

Abstract:In South Africa children under the age of 18 are legal minors and considered not fully capable of acting independently. However, in certain defined circumstances the law has granted minors the capacity to act independently, including regarding their se...

Publication Type:Academic Journal

Source(s):Reproductive health matters [Reprod Health Matters] 2011 Nov; Vol. 19 (38), pp. 119-28.

Abstract:In this paper I share some of my experience and observations, as an advocate for women's rights, of the last 20 years of struggles for sexual and reproductive health and rights, carried out in many key places where these issues have been debated and de...

Publication Type:Academic Journal

Source(s):Reproductive health matters [Reprod Health Matters] 2015 Nov; Vol. 23 (46), pp. 96-106. Date of Electronic Publication: 2015 Dec 11.

Abstract:Sexuality education, its protocols and planning are contingent on an ever-changing political environment that characterizes the field of sexuality in most countries. In Brazil, human rights perspectives shaped the country's response to the AIDS epidemi...

Publication Type:Academic Journal

Source(s):Reproductive health matters [Reprod Health Matters] 2015 Nov; Vol. 23 (46), pp. 56-61. Date of Electronic Publication: 2015 Dec 04.

Abstract:It is widely known that older women are at lesser risk for sexual violence than younger women, but current inattention to older women in the gender-based violence (GBV) field has minimized the experiences of older women survivors at great detriment to ...