Gender, Sexuality & the Law

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    Publications

    LGBT Rights Recognition in Brazil

      How to comprehend LGBT rights recognition processes in Brazil broadly? With a little help from my friends! We, the authors of the recently published …

    Book Review: Global Gender Constitutionalism and Women’s Citizenship

    Guest researcher at LawTransform Ana Côrtes has written a book review on Global Gender Constitutionalism and Women’s Citizenship: A Struggle for Transformative Inclusion, which has been published in the Jindal Global …

    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 …

    Special Issue: The limits of the law: Abortion in the Middle East and North Africa

    The Political Determinants of sexual and reproductive health project published in December 2019 a special issue in the Journal of Health and Human Rights. The …

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

    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 …

    Projects

    LawTransform: Effects of Rights & Law

    The project aims to consolidate the Centre on Law & Social Transformation (LawTransform) as a leading hub for scholarship on the use of law as …

    Political determinants of sexual and reproductive health: Criminalisation, health impacts and game changers

      Why is homosexuality (encompassing lesbian, gay, bi, trans*/LGBT) more politicized and criminalized in Africa than elsewhere? Can similar politicization of abortion be prevented? And …

    Abortion Rights Lawfare in Latin America

    Abstract: The project analyses the strategic use of rights and law in battles over abortion rights in Latin America – and the various effects of …

    Sexual and Reproductive Rights Lawfare: Global battles

      Sexual and Reproductive Rights (SRR) are controversial in most societies. Political polarization has been particularly pronounced on to abortion rights and rights of sexual minorities …

    Gender (in)justice – Pakistan

    The report review steps taken by the Musharraf government to combat honour killings through an examination of legal reforms in the years between 2003- 2006. …

     

    News

    Video: Constitutional reform process in Gambia

    Satang Nabaneh is a doctoral candidate at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria and LawTransform PhD scholar as part of the research project …

    Article: Trans Legalities – Preliminary Study of Files on the Recognition of Trans* Identities in Peru

    By Carlos J. Zelada and Carolina Neyra-Sevilla This is a summary of the article, which was published in The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and …

    Events

    Gendered Autocratization. PhD Conference 21-22 March with open and streamed keynotes and roundtables.

    Are you a PhD student and interested in the politics of gender and sexual and reproductive rights? This 2-day Conference-format PhD course is for you. …

    Looking for dialogue and recognition: transgender persons’ rights

    Date: 8 March 2021 Time: 17:00-18:00 Venue: Zoom Relevant issues for transgender persons, such as the change of name and gender marks on birth certificates …