1st Edition

Human Rights, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity

Edited By Anne Hellum Copyright 2017
132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

How human rights principles, like the right to gender identity, freedom, integrity and equality, respond to the concerns of different groups of adults and children who experience gender harm due to the binary conception of sexuality and gender identity is the overall theme of this book. The Yogyakarta Principles on the Application of International Human Rights Law in Relation to Sexual... Read more

1. Human Rights, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity
Anne Hellum

2. The Yogyakarta Principles at Ten
Michael O’Flaherty

3. Queering Gender [Identity] in International Law
Dianne Otto

4. Enhancing LGBTI Rights by Changing the Interpretation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women?
Rikki Holtmaat and Paul Post

5. The Rights of LGBTI Children under the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Kirsten Sandberg

6. Legal Gender Meets Reality: A Socio-Legal Children’s Perspective
Anniken Sørlie

7. Sexual Intimacy, Gender Variance, and Criminal law
Alex Sharpe

Biography

Anne Hellum is professor at the Department of Public and International Law in Oslo. Areas of teaching and research are women’s law, equality and anti-discrimination law, human rights law, law and development and sociology/anthropology of law. She is co-editor of Human Rights of Women: CEDAW in International, Regional and National Law (2014).