• Sexuality and reproductive rights

Sexuality and reproductive rights

Women human rights defenders are women who defend human rights as well as those who defend sexuality-related rights. This guidebook is designed to support the ongoing process of enhancing the understanding of, and sensitivity to, the specific issues and situations confronted by women human rights defenders. The document is of primary use to women human rights defenders themselves as part of a continuous process of acknowledging, validating, and transforming their practical experiences and insights into a body of knowledge, theories and tools for use by them and by others.

The authors complement current human rights documentation manuals and training, to further a gender perspective in many of the existing human rights documentation and monitoring systems. They consdier how to define human rights abuses, documenting abuses and defining accountability and justice. In addition the document consider the risks for human rights defenders working in conflict situaitons. The following areas are covered:

• resistance to state violence and repression of women human rights defenders, with a focus on state actors’ responsibility
• responsibility for violations by non-state actors, including violations perpetrated by family and community members and obstacles faced in those arenas
• violations perpetrated in relation to heightened fundamentalisms on a global level
• violations perpetrated in relation to regulation of, and attack on women’s sexuality.
  

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