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Sela 2009
Read some papers in Spanish and English presented during the SELA 2009 that took place in Paraguay, in last June. This is an annual gathering in the Southern Cone organized by Yale Law School Projects in South America, which brings together scholars from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, Perú, Puerto Rico, Spain and the United States. 

Conceptualising abortion stigma (PDF)
Abortion stigma is widely acknowledged in many countries, but poorly theorised. Although media accounts often evoke abortion stigma as a universal social fact, in this, article written by Anuradha Kumara, Leila Hessinia and Ellen M.H. Mitchellb, they suggest that the social production of abortion stigma is profoundly local.

There must be a limit (PDF)
In this article, published at CLAM’s website, Paula Vianna analyzes the case of the 9 year old girl who had an abortion after being raped by her stepfather and impregnated with twins. Paula Vianna (Grupo Curumim) is the nurse who helped the girl and her mother find a hospital where they could be assisted.

El derecho a la vida y la salud
Artículo de Paulina Vidal Pollarolo, progénero, de la Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano. Según el principio de autonomía, la mujer no puede ser percibida como un medio para dar vida a otro ser humano, sino como lo que es: una persona a la que se adscriben derechos fundamentales.

James Kirchick’s “Queers for Palestine?”, by Haneen Maikey and Jason Ritchie

Right’s Rubber Fetus Dolls, Scare Tactics at Commission on Status of Women, by Ariana Childs Graham, SIECUS

Reflexive Research and Sexual Stories - by Natalie Hammond
This is paper was produced by Natalie Hammond, from the Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, UK, based on her presentation at the 7th IASSCS Conference in Hanoi, Vietnam, April 2009.

377 - And the unnatural afterlife of British colonialism - by Douglas Sanders (PDF)
Article produced by Professor Douglas Sanders (Chulalongkorn University, Mahidol University) for the 5th Asian Law Institute Conference, National University of Singapore, May 22 and 23, 2008.

Yogyakarta Principles - by Douglas Sanders (PDF)
This paper was originally written for a presentation at a public meeting organized by the National Commission on Human Rights here in Thailand, organized to ‘launch’ the Thai language translation of the Principles. The main objetcive is to explain what this document represented.

Challenges for the universal access to medicines - by Gabriela Chaves and Renata Reis (PDF)
Read article by Gabriela Chaves and Renata Reis of Brazilian Interdisciplinary Aids Association (Abia), presented at the International Conference on Compulsory Licensing: Innovation and Access for All (Thailand, Nov 2007)

HRC 4 - Right to Education (PDF)
Joint statement delivered during the HRC 4th Session by Global Rights, Partners for Justice and Center for Women’s Global Leadership on report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education.

Stockholm Workshop Report (PDF)
Report of the Workshop, “Making the Linkages - Sexuality, Rights and Development”, hosted by the Expert Group on Development Issues (EGDI), in Stockholm, Sweden, April 2006.

Sexuality Matters (PDF)
IDS published a special issue of its bulletin with the outcomes of the Seminar “Realizing Sexual Rights”.