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A Call for (Renewed) Commitment to Sexual Health, Sexual Rights, and Sexual Pleasure: A Matter of Health and Well-being

Posted on February 4, 2020April 4, 2020

Read » Details: Author: Sofia Gruskin JD, MIA, and Eszter Kismödi JD, LLM Published By: American Journal of Public Health Date: February, 2020 Publication Link: https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2... read more →

World Association for Sexual Health 2019 Conference

Posted on October 25, 2019January 14, 2021

In October 2019, Sofia Gruskin, Director of the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health, traveled to Mexico City with Avery Everhart, a doctoral student affiliated with IIGH and the USC Spatial Sciences Institute, to ... read more →

Strengthening justice systems for sexual and reproductive health in Vietnam

Posted on December 18, 2017October 2, 2020

At the biennial Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights in Vietnam Nov. 27-30, Sofia Gruskin presented to more than 1,000 attendees at a plenary session on strengthening justice systems for sexual... read more →

Is populism bad for women’s rights?

Posted on June 5, 2017August 21, 2018

Experts reflected and speculated about women's rights and reproductive justice under the rule of populist leaders at a University of Geneva event May 17. (more…)... read more →

Defunding Planned Parenthood is a violation of women’s reproductive rights

Posted on April 14, 2017August 25, 2018

In her editorial published in The Hill, Mellissa Withers, assistant professor of clinical preventive medicine, describes the reproductive health consequences of replacing the Affordable Care Act, as well as the irony in Presi... 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 →

Reproductive Health Matters: Sexuality, sexual politics and sexual rights

Posted on December 23, 2015August 21, 2018

For a short time, articles from Reproductive Health Matters' issue on sexuality, sexual politics and sexual rights are available to download for free. USC Program on Global Health & Human Rights Director Sofia Gruskin... 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 →

World Health Organization report focuses on ties between sexual health, human rights and law

Posted on July 27, 2015August 21, 2018

In its first report to address sexual health, human rights and the law, the World Health Organization called on policymakers, health care providers, non-governmental organizations and others to remove barriers to information ... 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 →