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Making the Connection -- News and Views on Sexuality: Education, Health and Rights

A quarterly international newsletter on sexuality, sexual health, and sexuality education.

Volume 2, Issue 2 - Fall/Winter 2002

Resources

Annotated Bibliography: Sexuality and Human Rights

Susana T. Fried and the International Women’s Heath Coalition have put together an annotated bibliography on sexuality and human rights.

It provides a comprehensive introduction to the issues related to sexual rights/sexuality and human rights.

This bibliography on the subject is divided into two parts: the first introduces abstracts for a selection of diverse essays that present either a conceptual overview of sexual rights or a particular aspect of sexuality and human rights; the second lists selected articles, essays, books, and other sexual rights resources that are useful for those who want to look in greater detail at particular areas of work.

Areas highlighted include sexuality and violence, refugees/asylum, reproductive rights, lesbian and gay rights, and trafficking.

To download the bibliography, go to: http://www.iwhc.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page&pageID=413

Health and Human Rights

Health and Human Rights is an international quarterly journal published by the Harvard School of Public Health, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights.

The journal explores the reciprocal influences of health and human rights, including the impact of public health programs and policies on human rights, the health consequences of human rights violations, the importance of health for the realization of human rights, and the ways in which the promotion of human rights can be incorporated as an integral part of public health strategies.

The journal publishes scholarly articles, commentaries, editorials, reports, profiles, as book reviews and bibliographies.

For subscriptions: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/fxbcenter/subscriptions.htm

The following papers can be downloaded from the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights:

“Health and Human Rights,” by Sofia Gruskin and Daniel Tarantola (FXB Center Working Paper No. 10) is a detailed history of the health and human rights framework and the current state of the field.
It is available online at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/fxbcenter/FXBC_WP10Gruskin_and_Tarantola.pdf

“Statement on Health and Human Rights,” by the Consortium for Health and Human Rights is a 1998 overview of the relationship between public health and human rights.
It is available online at http://www.healthandhumanrights.org/state.htm

“Health and Human Rights,” by Jonathan Mann, Lawrence Gostin, Sofia Gruskin, et al., is an 1994 overview of the health and human rights framework and is available online at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/fxbcenter/V1N1mannetal.htm

Global Reproductive Health Forum
A research library with bibliographic references on sexual rights.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet/reprorights/topics05.htm

The Girlsrights Web site
A web site from the NGO Working Groups on Girls, provides follow-up information and advocacy information on the rights of girls.
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/girl.htm

United Nations Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
http://www.unhchr.ch

A compilation of the United Nations’ human rights treaty bodies including:

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Translated into more than 300 languages and dialects

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

Declaration of the Rights of the Child

Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights, Columbia University, New York, provides program descriptions, seminar listings, fellowship applications, and other resources.
http://www.cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/gender/

The Application of Human Rights to Reproductive and Sexual Health is a compilation of the work of international human rights treaty bodies from Action Canada for Population and Development.
http://www.acpd.ca/compilation

World Association of Sexology (WAS) Declaration of Sexual Rights can be found at the SIECUS web site. It is also available in Spanish.
http://www.siecus.org/inter/inte0006.html

Teen’s Sexual Rights can be found at the SIECUS web site.
http://www.siecus.org/teen/teen0002.html

International Planned Parenthood Federation Charter on Sexual and Reproductive Rights
http://www.ippf.org/charter/

Right to Choose: Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Health
Provides links to articles on sexual and reproductive rights.
http://www.unfpa.org/modules/intercenter/repright/theright.htm

UNAIDS: Human Rights and Gender provides a list of human rights documents relating to HIV/AIDS.
http://www.unaids.org/publications/documents/human/index.html

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