Abstract The 2006 Yogyakarta Principles apply human rights law in relation to sexual
orientation and gender identity. Created outside the UN system, their aim was to promote …

This article explores what is at stake in contemporary practices of locating homophobia, as
expressed in debates surrounding the Ugandan Anti Homosexuality Act. Problematising …

In recent years, literature has pointed to the role of pictorial images in human rights
advocacy. While this literature has focused mostly on images which portray the violations of …

This work focuses on the effects of dominant concepts of parenthood and gender on gay
men who became parents through surrogacy. Based on the analysis of 39 in-depth …

In this article, we examine the special challenges posed by the practice of polygamy to
minority women, focusing on the ways that the state and the women confront the related …

Polygamy violates the basic human rights of women involved in it. It is an institution that is
usually shaped by multiple factors that are not limited to gender discrimination, such as race …

In 2020 the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW
Committee) found for the first time that a state had breached its obligations to prevent …

Ante un contexto de violencia contra las personas gays, lesbianas, bisexuales y
transgeneristas, se promulgaron los Principios de Yogyakarta sobre la aplicación de la …

This article focuses on Israeli male same-sex family, as a case study which provides an
opportunity to understand the relationships between LGBT family, parenthood and the state …

This work was accepted by the Faculty of Law, Westfaelische Wilhelms University, Muenster,
during Winter Semester 2016. This was within the institutional framework of Cluster of …