Sexual & reproductive rights
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Publications
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 …
Right to Love: India’s Decriminalization of Homosexuality Understood in Light of Contact
November 19, 2021
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 …
Abortion and ‘conscientious objection’ in South Africa
September 7, 2021
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. …
Blogpost: “Causa Justa” Movement for the elimination of abortion crime in Colombia
March 31, 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 …
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 …
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 (LGBTIQ …
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 …
Sexual and Reproductive Rights in India
May 10, 2019
On the 14th – 15th of April LawTransform co-organized the conference ‘’Sexual & Reproductive Rights in India: Social movements & legal battles‘‘ at the Bangalore …
Events
Evening Exchanges: Law, politics and adolescent sexual and reproductive health: evidence of impact
August 10, 2018
Date: Tuesday 21 August Time: 18:00-19:30 Place: Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, Kalfaveien 31, Bergen Politics and law are major determinants of …
Criminalisation of queer sexuality: political drivers and health effects
August 7, 2018
Date: Tuesday 21 August Time: 11:30-12:30 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen What is driving the political attention to homosexuality or …