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Human rights advocacy today engages with criminal law at international
and national levels with a new and rather conflicted posture. It is
reorienting from an approach that primarily treated human rights as a shield
from (unjust) prosecutorial and carceral power, and toward one calling for
criminal penalties and vigorous prosecutions as a remedy for harms. The
human rights abuses for which state prosecution is invoked today include not
only past and present state violations, such as torture, but crimes by
non-state actors, such as sexual and gender-based violence. At the same
time, paradoxically, many rights groups are calling for the review and
reduction of criminal regulation of a range of sexual and reproductive
health practices, including abortion, consensual sexual conduct outside of
marriage (same sex, heterosexual, and sex for money), and HIV
transmission.

Janet Halley in conversation with Aziza Ahmed : interview -- Seismic shifts : how prosecution became the go-to tool to vindicate rights / Alice M. Miller with Tara Zivkovic -- The harm principle meets morality offenses : human rights, criminal law, and the regulation of sex and gender / Allison Liu Jernow -- Reflections of a human rights activist / Widney Brown -- Virtuous rights : on prostitution exceptionalism in South Korea / Sealing Cheng and Ae-Ryung Kim -- Brazilian sex laws : continuities, ruptures, and paradoxes / Sonia Corra and Maria Lucia Karam -- The reach of a skirt in southern Africa : claims to law and custom in protecting and patrolling relations of gender and sexuality / Oliver Phillips -- Abortion as treason : sexuality and nationalism in France / Mindy Jane Roseman -- Wanja Muguongo in convversation with Alice M. Miller : interview -- Criminal law, activism, and sexual and reproductive justice : what we can learn from the sex selection campaign in India / Geetanjali Misra and Vrinda Marwah -- Poisoned gifts : old moralities under new clothes? / Esteban Restrepo Saldarriaga -- The filth they bring: sex panics and racial others in Lebanon / Rasha Moumneh -- Objects in political mirrors may not be what they appear / Scott Long -- Harm production : an argument for decriminalization / Joanna N. Erdman.

Examines some of the obstacles & locations for a lesbian right to health that considers the intersections of emerging paradigms of health & human rights with human rights of women & homosexuals. It is argued that the international frameworks defining a woman's right to health have focused on reproductive health. When health & human rights efforts have addressed homosexuality, they have centered on discrimination against gay men, precluding the formation of a strategy for protecting lesbian health. It is argued that an approach which takes into account the dynamics of individual & social relations may offer lesbians the potential to counteract the harms that have unfolded within the health & human rights arena. Adapted from the source document.

Contribution to a special issue on violence, health and human rights. In May 2002, the Sixth World Conference on Injury Prevention and Control was held in Montreal, Canada. An outcome of that conference was the finalization of a draft charter on the People's Right to Safety (previously adopted by participants of the Fifth World Conference in New Delhi). Brings together a group of health and human rights experts with diverse opinions and perspectives on the value of recognizing this new right. Reproduces the Montreal Declaration and includes an introduction and response to the discussion by Dinesh Mohan. (Quotes from original text)