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- Title
COMPOUNDED INJUSTICE AND CAUTIONARY NOTES FOR "PROGRESS" IN THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ERA: CONSIDERING THE CASE OF STERILIZATION OF WOMEN LIVING WITH HIV.
- Authors
YAMIN, ALICIA ELY; PRACHNIAK-RINCÓN, COREY
- Abstract
The article considers the occurrence of involuntary sterilization of women living with HIV and the infringement of their rights under the international human rights law. Topics discussed are application of the concept of intersectional discrimination to HIV-positive women, discrimination against women in use of bilateral tubal ligation, discrimination based on bias and misinformation, and responsibility of national tribunals to condemn involuntary sterilization as intersectional discrimination.
- Subjects
STERILIZATION (Birth control); HIV-positive women; WOMEN'S rights; HUMAN rights; INTERNATIONAL law; DISCRIMINATION (Sociology); TUBAL sterilization; BIAS (Law)
- Publication
Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, 2018, Vol 41, Issue 2, p395
- ISSN
1558-4356
- Publication type
Article