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Gender equality and human rights approaches to female genital mutilation: a review of international human rights norms and standards

This paper aims to ensure that health providers understand international policy and the human rights basis for upholding women and children’s...

General Comment No. 22 (2016) on the Right to sexual and reproductive health

General Comment No. 22 (2016) on the Right to sexual and reproductive health (article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights)

I. Introduction...

International Human Rights Violations on the Grounds of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

This second updated edition, prepared by the International Commission of Jurists addresses the issue of human rights violations on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity. The objective of this document is to compile relevant existing information in order to frame the debate, and...

How Sexuality Is Used to Attack Women's Organizing

This report shows how, for many activists and organizations, advocating for "sexual rights" has become a dangerous proposition. It illustrates how the combined forces which conspire, in society after society, to regulate women’s sexuality, lash out at any attempt to...

Protection Manual For LGBTI Defenders

This manual we gives more space than other security manuals for defenders on the specific issues and obstacles that prevailing societal valuesand legal systems present to LGBTI defenders. We aim at addressing not only the affect of wider societal value systems on...

Guide: Claiming Women's ESC Rights Using OP-CEDAW and OP-ICESCR

This Resource Guide aims to improve the existing knowledge and understanding of activists and lawyers on international norms and standards, such as substantive equality, to support effective advocacy on women’s economic, social and cultural rights.

Developed thanks to the collective work of ESCR-Net Members

Reproductive Rights: A Tool for Monitoring State Obligations

The Monitoring Tool, produced by member Center for Reproductive Rights, provides a means to monitor the implementation of specific State obligations in the field of reproductive rights.