Gender, Sexuality, and Rights

Rights related to gender and sexuality face both incremental progress and significant rollbacks of support in health and legal policy, with contestations often treated as constitutive of struggles between and within nations and cultures. Despite being delineated as a coherent field of rights, these struggles arise in remarkably asymmetrical ways: in some places, abortion rights are being rolled back, while gay rights are advancing; in some places, persons expressing gender and reproductive non-conformity are targeted, often through the criminal law. GHJP works in this complex and volatile area using a nuanced, multidisciplinary approach, moving between practice and scholarship to forge new alliances and provide analytics and groundwork for new policies.

Confronting Criminalization of Gender, Sexuality, and Reproduction

Submission to ICC OTP on gender persecution under the Rome Statute

Submissions on behalf of the World Medical Association and the Global Health Justice Partnership, Semenya v. Switzerland, European Court of Human Rights

Submission to SRVAW for consideration in the upcoming thematic report on “rape as a grave and systematic human rights violation and gender-based violence against women”

Protecting the Health and Rights of Sex Workers in the US and globally

Ensuring a rights-based response to Zika

Addressing racial disparities in maternal health in Georgia, USA

Gender, Race, Sexuality and Human Rights in the Context of Sport

Developing recommendations for a U.S. legislative response to obstetric fistula