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 ...
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Category: Publications
Sound and Fury—engaging with the politics and the law of sexual rights
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. T...
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Gendered power dynamics and women’s negotiation of family planning in a high HIV prevalence setting
In sub-Saharan Africa, high burdens of HIV and unmet need for contraception often coexist. Research emphasizes the need to engage men and couples in reproductive health, yet couples' negotiations around fertility and family p...
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Men’s violence against women and men are inter-related: Recommendations for simultaneous intervention
Men are more likely than women to perpetrate nearly all types of interpersonal violence (e.g. intimate partner violence, murder, assault, rape). While public health programs target prevention efforts for each type of violence...
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World Report on Ageing and Health
Comprehensive public health action on population ageing is urgently needed. This will require fundamental shifts, not just in the things we do, but in how we think about ageing itself. The World report on ageing and health ou...
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Revisiting the Use of Condoms in Brazil
Authors: Inês DouradoI, Sarah MacCarthy, Manasa Reddy, Gabriela Calazans, and Sofia Gruskin
Published By: Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia
Date: September, 2015
Publication Link: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sc...
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Why History Matters for Quantitative Target Setting: Long-term Trends in Socioeconomic and Racial/ethnic Inequities in US Infant Death Rates (1960–2010)
Authors: Nancy Krieger, Nakul Singh, Jarvis T. Chen, Jason Beckfield, Matthew V. Kiang, Pamela D. Waterman, and Sofia Gruskin
Published By: Journal of Public Health Policy
Date: August, 2015
Publication Link: http://www.ncbi....
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Searching for Justice and Health
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Authors: Daniel Tarantola, Kenneth Camargo, Sofia Gruskin
Published By: American Journal of Public Health
Date: August 1, 2015
Publication Link: http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/...
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Integrating Human Rights in Program Evaluation: Lessons From Law and Health Programs in Kenya
Methods for assessing both the inclusion and impact of human rights within health program design and implementation are still nascent. We used human rights concepts and methods to evaluate the programs of three Kenyan nongove...
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Sexual health, human rights, and the law
This report demonstrates the relationship between sexual health, human rights and the law. Drawing from a review of public health evidence and extensive research into human rights law at international, regional and national l...
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