LGBT Rights Recognition in Brazil

Ana de Mello Côrtes, Lívia Gonçalves Buzolin (2024)

Sexual Research and Social Policy

  How to comprehend LGBT rights recognition processes in Brazil broadly? With a little help from my friends! We, the authors of the recently published article on “Paths Towards LGBT Rights Recognition in Brazil”, were already colleagues and graduated from the same master’s program. However, it took a LawTransform Seminar and a suggestion from Siri […]

Photo from the CPHIA website. Maternal Health Financing and Postpartum Detentions: Political Will as an Underlying Determinant for Respectful Maternity Care in Kenya

Kerigo Odada (2024)

Revista Direito GV

An article by Kerigo Odada, a lawyer, researcher, and advocate with a particular focus on the right to health, specifically sexual and reproductive health and rights. She is a Ph.D. researcher and academic associate at the Centre for Human Rights University of Pretoria. Her research focuses on Obstetric Violence and the Legal Mobilisation For Respectful […]

Young Brazilian Wives: Child Marriage, Girls’ Marginalisation, and Agency

Larissa Cristina Margarido (2024)

Revista Direito GV

An article by Larissa Cristina Margarido, a PhD candidate in Law and Development at FGV Sao Paulo Law School (Brazil), and a LawTransform fellow. Larissa Cristina Margarido is a part of the South-South Network, a group dedicated to amplifying the voices of Global South researchers in crucial socio-legal debates. Read her full article here. Abstract: […]

Blogpost: Gender Trouble: Glocalization of Sexuality Education

Satang Nabaneh (2024)

Human Rights in Context

Check here Dr Satang Nabaneh‘s most recent publication, the blogpost Gender Trouble: Glocalization of Sexual Education at Human Rights in Context. Dr Satang Nabaneh is an award-winning legal scholar, educator, researcher, and human rights practitioner. She is the Director of Programs at the University of Dayton Human Rights Center and a Global Fellow at the […]

Book chapters in Research Handbook on International Abortion Law

LawTransform co-director Liv Tønnessen and other LawTransform affiliates and PhD course alums have contributed with chapters in the newly published Research Handbook on International Abortion Law edited by Mary Ziegler, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, University of California, Davis School of Law, US. The book provides an in-depth, multidisciplinary study of abortion law […]

Right to Love: India’s Decriminalization of Homosexuality Understood in Light of Contact

New article by LawTransform’s affiliate Vikram Kolmannskog On September 6, 2018, homosexuality was decriminalized in India. It was the result of a rights mobilization that started almost two decades ago. From the start, Indian lesbian, gay, bi, trans (LGBT) activists tried to influence society and the judges directly, not least through contact with other judges […]

Abortion and ‘conscientious objection’ in South Africa

Satang Nabaneh (2021)

Abortion and 'conscientious objection' in South Africa. In Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Africa. By Ebenezer Durojaye, Gladys Mirugi-Mukundi, Charles Ngwena. Routlege

New book chapter: The 1996 Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act of South Africa is hailed as one of the most exemplary liberal laws on abortion. However, one of the key challenges to the efficacy of the law is the refusal to perform or provide abortion care based on conscience grounds. The Act does not directly […]

Blogpost: “Causa Justa” Movement for the elimination of abortion crime in Colombia

Ana María Méndez, Ana Cristina González Vélez, Catalina Martínez and Mariana Ardila (2021)

“… The event of conception and even its eventual desire do not imply a project, let alone a desire for motherhood” (Pitch, 2003)   The time for the feminist movement to fight for the complete decriminalization of abortion in Colombia has arrived. More than 90 organizations and 150 activists around the country have joined together towards […]

Special issue: Abortion Lawfare in Latin America – Some Readings Keys For a Changing Scenario

Barbieri, Catarina, Camila Gianella, Maria Defago, and Marta Machado (eds) (2021)

Rev. direito GV vol.17 no.3 São Paulo 2021 Epub Dec 15, 2021

In 2021, the LawTransform projects Abortion Rights Lawfare in Latin America,  Sexual and Reproductive Rights Lawfare: Global Battles  and Political Determinants of Sexual and Reproductive Health jointly published a special issue in Revista Direito GV. This special issue brings together novel scholarship produced since 2013 by a project of similar name based at the Centre on […]

LGBT rights in Africa

Siri Gloppen and Lise Rakner (2020)

Research Handbook on Gender, Sexuality and the Law. Edited by Chris Ashford and Alexander Maine

Across the African continent, homosexuality has since the late 1990s become an issue of political contestation and conflict. When Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe castigated the gay community in 1993, it marked the first incidence of contemporary politicized homophobia on the continent. This incident has been followed by numerous similar attacks, in Botswana, Burundi, Egypt, Ghana, […]