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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 →

Revisiting the Use of Condoms in Brazil

Posted on September 1, 2015August 21, 2018

It is known that a single prevention strategy is not enough to control multiple HIV epidemics around the world and in Brazil. However, it is not only necessary to recognize the importance of condoms as part of the policy of H... read more →

Why history matters for quantitative target setting: long-term trends in socioeconomic and racial/ethnic inequities in US infant death rates (1960–2010)

Posted on August 1, 2015August 21, 2018

Policy-oriented population health targets, such as the Millennium Development Goals and national targets to address health inequities, typically are based on trends of a decade or less. To test whether expanded timeframes mig... read more →

Sexual health, human rights, and the law

Posted on June 1, 2015August 21, 2018

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... read more →

Reproductive Justice and the Pace of Change: Socioeconomic Trends in US Infant Death Rates by Legal Status of Abortion, 1960-1980

Posted on April 1, 2015August 21, 2018

US infant death rates for 1960 to 1980 declined most quickly in (1) 1970 to 1973 in states that legalized abortion in 1970, especially for infants in the lowest 3 income quintiles (annual percentage change = −11.6; 95% ... read more →

Tag: sexual and reproductive health and rights

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

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

Revisiting the Use of Condoms in Brazil

Why history matters for quantitative target setting: long-term trends in socioeconomic and racial/ethnic inequities in US infant death rates (1960–2010)

Sexual health, human rights, and the law

Reproductive Justice and the Pace of Change: Socioeconomic Trends in US Infant Death Rates by Legal Status of Abortion, 1960-1980

Advancing sexual health through human rights: The role of the law

Human Rights Must Include Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Realising the ICPD 20 years later: Shifting the paradigms for research and education

Ensuring human rights within contraceptive programmes: A human rights analysis of existing quantitative indicators