Sound and Fury – engaging with the politics and the law of sexual rights

Although past resistance to sexual rights in global debates has often been grounded in claims to culture, nation and religion, opposition voices are now using, rather than rejecting, the frame of international human rights. This Commentary argues that, despite opponents ’ attempts to defeat sexual rights with other rights claims, a careful understanding of the principles of international human rights and its legal development exposes how the use of rights to oppose sexual rights should, and will ultimately, fail.
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - Category: Global & Universal Authors: Tags: Commentary Source Type: research