title: Sexual rights as human rights: a guide to authoritative sources and principles for applying human rights to sexuality and sexual health.
abstract: This Guide seeks to provide insight and resources to actors interested in the development of rights claims around sexuality and sexual health. After engaging with the vexed question of the scope of sexual rights, it explores the rules and principles governing the way in which human rights claims are developed and applied to sexuality and sexual health, and how that development is linked to law and made a matter of state obligation. This understanding is critical to policy and programming in sexual health and rights, as it supports calling on the relevant range of human rights, such as privacy, non-discrimination, health or other universally accepted human rights, as well as demanding the action of states under their international and national law obligations to support sexual health.
authors.affiliation: Co-Director, Global Health Justice Partnership of the Yale Law School and the School of Public Health, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, USA. Electronic address: alice.miller@yale.edu.
authors.forename: Alice M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.affiliation: International Human Rights Lawyer on Sexuality, Gender, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Eszter
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kismödi
authors.affiliation: Independent Consultant, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cottingham
authors.affiliation: Professor of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine; Professor of Law and Preventive Medicine, Gould School of Law; Director, Program on Global Health and Human Rights, Institute for Global Health, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Sofia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gruskin
mesh_terms: D014943:Global Health; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D011057:Politics; D060728:Reproductive Health; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D000072339:Sexual and Gender Minorities; D019529:Sexuality; D014944:World Health Organization
keywords: health; human rights; law; sexual rights; sexuality