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Monitoring HIV-Related Laws and Policies: Lessons for AIDS and Global Health in Agenda 2030

Posted on January 1, 2017August 25, 2018

The National Commitments and Policy Instrument (NCPI) has been used to monitor AIDS-related laws and policies for more than a decade. In this publication, USC Program on Global Health & Human Rights Director Sofia Gruski... read more →

How are Gender Equality and Human Rights Interventions Included in Sexual and Reproductive Health Programmes and Policies: A Review of Existing Research Foci and Gaps

Posted on December 21, 2016August 25, 2018

The importance of promoting gender equality and human rights in sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programs and policies has been affirmed in numerous international and regional agreements, most recently the 2030 Agenda for... read more →

Human Rights, Gender, and Infectious Disease: From HIV/AIDS to Ebola

Posted on November 1, 2016August 25, 2018

The HIV/AIDS, Ebola and Zika crises have revealed that infectious disease does not affect all global citizens equally. Among the many factors at play in making some people more vulnerable than others are human rights and gend... read more →

No “Shared Governance” Without Attention to Law, Broadly Conceived

Posted on October 4, 2016August 25, 2018

In this commentary published Sept. 21 in The American Journal of Bioethics, Alexander Capron and Sofia Gruskin call attention to law at the national and international levels as a necessary component of "shared health govern... read more →

Non-communicable diseases and human rights: Global synergies, gaps and opportunities

Posted on April 18, 2016August 25, 2018

The incorporation of human rights in health policy and programmes is known to strengthen responses to health problems and help address disparities created or exacerbated by illness yet this remains underexplored in relation t... read more →

Reproductive justice & preventable deaths: State funding, family planning, abortion, and infant mortality, US 1980–2010

Posted on March 19, 2016August 25, 2018

Professor Sofia Gruskin and co-authors published a new article April 22 in Social Science and Medicine Public Health titled “Reproductive justice & preventable deaths: State family planning, abortion & infant mort... read more →

Sound and Fury—Engaging with the Politics and the Law of Sexual Rights

Applying Human Rights to Sexuality and Sexual Health

Posted on January 26, 2016August 21, 2018

The November issue of Reproductive Health Matters featured “Sexual Rights as Human Rights: A Guide to Authoritative Sources and Principles for Applying Human Rights to Sexuality and Sexual Health,” written by Professor So... read more →

Human rights and the sexual and reproductive health of women living with HIV – a literature review

Posted on December 1, 2015August 21, 2018

Introduction: Even as the number of women living with HIV around the globe continues to grow, realization of their sexual and reproductive health and human rights remains compromised. The objective of this study was to review... read more →

Sexual rights as human rights: a guide to authoritative sources and principles for applying human rights to sexuality and sexual health

Posted on November 1, 2015August 21, 2018

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 ... read more →

Sound and Fury—engaging with the politics and the law of sexual rights

Posted on November 1, 2015August 21, 2018

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... read more →