Reproductive Health Matters Archives - USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health

Sexual Health & Human Rights Collection in Celebration of the UDHR

Posted on December 12, 2018

Eszter Kismödi, chief executive of the journal Reproductive Health Matters, invites you to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through a collection of articles that illustrate challeng... read more →

Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the UDHR, celebrating sexual and reproductive rights

Posted on December 7, 2018May 2, 2019

In this editorial, published in the journal Reproductive Health Matters, authors Eszter Kismödi and Laura Ferguson discuss the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its reaffirmation of the dignity and worth of the human... read more →

The AIDS conference 2018: a critical moment

Posted on October 25, 2018May 2, 2019

Sofia Gruskin, director of the Institute for Global Health, and Julia Hussein, editor-in-chief of the journal Reproductive Health Matters, note the tenor changes of the annual International AIDS Conference since its inception... read more →

“In transition: ensuring the sexual and reproductive health and rights of transgender populations.” A roundtable discussion

Posted on August 2, 2018April 4, 2019

This roundtable discussion is the result of a research symposium entitled In Transition: Gender [Identity], Law & Global Health where participants took up the challenge to engage with the question: What will it take to ... read more →

Sexual and reproductive health and rights for all: translating the Guttmacher-Lancet Commission’s global report to local action

Posted on July 3, 2018May 2, 2019

The Guttmacher-Lancet Commission on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights brought renewed vision and revived thinking around sexual and reproductive health and rights in a time of backsliding progress. In this R... read more →

WORLD AIDS DAY: Moving beyond despair to concerted HIV activism

Posted on December 1, 2016October 2, 2020

World AIDS Day is a time for reflection, remembrance and re-energizing efforts to address HIV. The latter seems particularly critical this year as we find ourselves in a state of political, economic and social upheaval such a... read more →

Professor Laura Ferguson joins Reproductive Health Matters as Associate Editor

Posted on February 10, 2016August 21, 2018

Based on her diverse expertise related to sexual and reproductive health and rights, Professor Laura Ferguson has been appointed as an associate editor of Reproductive Health Matters. (more…)... 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 →

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 →