Introduction: contextualising “rights” in sexual and reproductive health
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BMC International Health and Human Rights
2011
11(Suppl 3):S1
Volume 11 Supplement 3
Contextualising rights: the lived experience of sexual and reproductive health rights
Research
Edited by Hilary Standing, Rose N Oronje and Kate Hawkins
Publication of this supplement has been supported by funding from the UK Department for International Development (DFID) for the Research Programme Consortium on Realising Rights: Improving Sexual and Reproductive Health in Poor and Vulnerable Populations.
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Unpacking rights in indigenous African societies: indigenous culture and the question of sexual and reproductive rights in Africa
Modern declarations on human rights have often proceeded without reference to the cultural content of rights, the existence of rights in African indigenous backgrounds, and the embodiment of certain key rights...
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Human rights and reproductive health: political realities and pragmatic choices for married adolescent women living in urban slums, Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, particularly in urban slums, married adolescent women’s human rights to life, health, and reproductive and sexual health remain adversely affected because of the structural inequalities and poli...
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Ten years of negotiating rights around maternal health in Uttar Pradesh, India
Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity have been globally recognized as human rights issues. Maternal mortality in India is among the highest in the world, and reflects inequity in access to healthcare: ...
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Sexuality, rights and personhood: tensions in a transnational world
This article discusses what happens when normative ‘global’ discourses of rights and individuated sexual identity confront the messiness of ‘local’ realities. It considers the tensions that emerge when the rel...
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Can rights stop the wrongs? Exploring the connections between framings of sex workers’ rights and sexual and reproductive health
There is growing interest in the ways in which legal and human rights issues related to sex work affect sex workers’ vulnerability to HIV and abuses including human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Interna...
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Framing rights and responsibilities: accounts of women with a history of AIDS activism
In South Africa, policy with respect to HIV/AIDS has had a strong rights-based framing in line with international trends and in keeping with the constitutional overhaul in the post-Apartheid era. There have al...
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Operationalising sexual and reproductive health and rights in sub-Saharan Africa: constraints, dilemmas and strategies
The continued poor sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa highlight the difficulties in reforming policies and laws, and implementing effective programmes. This paper uses one inte...
Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2011 11(Suppl 3):S8
