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Publications
LGBT Rights Recognition in Brazil
March 9, 2024
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
June 30, 2023
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
April 11, 2023
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
May 30, 2022
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
May 30, 2022
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
August 27, 2018
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
November 7, 2017
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
August 18, 2014
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
August 15, 2014
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
November 29, 2013
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
November 27, 2019
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
October 1, 2019
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.
February 8, 2024
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
February 26, 2021
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 …