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This case study investigates strategies used by the NGO Leonard Cheshire Disability Zimbabwe (LCDZ) to promote the SRHRs of girls and young women with disabilities in Zimbabwe. The findings show that LCDZ employed a combination of six strategies. These are: (1) building practical knowledge on SRHRs; (2) increasing community awareness and sensitivity; (3) providing SRHRs-related education; (4) enhancing access to justice and related services for survivors of sexual violence; (5) delivering assistive devices; and (6) promoting the livelihoods and economic empowerment. LCDZ made use of multi-stakeholder partnerships to implement these strategies, leveraging complementary skills and experience in the promotion of SRHRs. In each of these strategies, girls and young women with disabilities are the target group, with other stakeholders brought together to support them.

Sexual and reproductive rights of women are widely violated and abused in Africa, partly because of numerous gender-based cultural and traditional practices. All these practices exist to varying extents in many African countries—including South Africa. The Bill of Rights in the South African Constitution has several provisions that relate to the protection of sexual and reproductive rights of women, but the Constitution also provides for the right to culture, which allows for traditional and cultural practices—some of which violate certain human rights norms including the sexual and reproductive rights of women. International and constitutional protection notwithstanding, such rights can only be realised and enjoyed if they are given force through constitutional, legislative and judicial measures. This paper explores these three measures. A conceptual understanding of sexual and reproductive rights is presented, before the international dimension of those rights is discussed. The constitutional and legislative framework relating to the relevant cultural practices is then interrogated—before case law from the application and interpretation of that framework in relation to women's sexual and reproductive rights is analysed. The paper argues that despite the constitutional, legislative and judicial attempts to minimise the clash between cultural practices and the sexual and reproductive rights of women in South Africa, the violation and abuse of such rights still abounds. The paper concludes that legislative intervention does not go far enough, that the courts should be more proactive and assertive on the issues concerned, and that a much more holistic approach—including advocacy, human rights education, a change of patriarchal mind-sets, and political will—is urgently needed.

AbstractThis paper analyzes how dynamics between Brazil's right‐wing populist government and civil and uncivil organizations affected the role of civil organizations, especially rights‐based ones, and Brazil's democratization process. These dynamics contributed to stripping policies of their progressive nature and rejecting the values of diversity, freedom, and equality. Our analysis relies on the inhabited institutions approach to comprehend the role of action, interaction, and meaning in institutionalized spaces. We analyzed two policy fields—gender, sexual, and reproductive rights, and ethnic and racial relations—through documents and in‐depth interviews. Our analysis shows that Bolsonaro's government mobilized mechanisms related to institutional changes, the replacement of actors, and their interactions to inhibit civil society organizations' influence in policy formulation and provision and strengthen the participation of uncivil groups, thereby legitimating conservative ideas and discourses, and closing civic space for NGOs with rights‐based agendas.

This article will analyze the main effects and threats that, because of the pandemic caused by the Covid-19 disease, evidence sexual and reproductive rights worldwide, affecting their exercise as a result of the measures taken by the States to protect the population and product of this study, to establish those mechanisms and guidelines that are capable of further reinforcing their due protection, based on the recommendations that the main International Organizations have made. The measures and protocols that Chile has established in the protection of sexual and reproductive rights in a period of pandemic by Covid-19 will be described in parallel. It is through a joint effort, among the actors of civil and political society, in conjunction with international bodies, that the current scenario in which fundamental rights are immersed must be addressed with concern and their recovery in the full exercise of them. ; En este artículo se analizarán las principales afectaciones y amenazas que, a consecuencia de la pandemia provocada por la enfermedad covid-19, evidencian los derechos sexuales y reproductivos a nivel mundial, al ser afectado su ejercicio como resultado de las medidas tomadas por los Estados en resguardo de la población. Producto del estudio, se establecen los mecanismos y directrices capaces de reforzar aún más su debida protección, basados en las recomendaciones de los principales organismos internacionales. En paralelo, se describirán las medidas y protocolos que en Chile se han establecido en la protección de los derechos sexuales y reproductivos en período de pandemia por covid-19. Es mediante un esfuerzo mancomunado, entre los actores de la sociedad civil y política, en conjunto con las instancias internacionales, que se debe atender con preocupación el actual escenario en que los derechos fundamentales se encuentran inmersos, para lograr su recuperación en el pleno ejercicio de los derechos.

There have been advances in Latin America regarding the recognition of sexual and reproductive rights, especially in relation to disadvantaged groups such as women and LGBTI persons. In this sense, it is relevant to mention the recognition by the Inter-American System of the right to health as a true right. Nevertheless, there are still many challenges to be faced.
In this paper, I will review the progress and challenges of the Inter American Court of Human Right in sexual and reproductive health rights, looking to offer a panoramic overview from a global south perspective by analyzing specific cases. I will then highlight some achievements and setbacks in this area, focus on the impact of these cases in the region and criticize some of the Court's limited responses.

This article entitled "Sexual and Reproductive Rights of women, sociocultural and legislative analysis of the Nicaraguan context", is elaborated from a holistic perspective, including anthropological, social, cultural and legal approaches; all of them related to the analysis of the processes and dynamics related to the DSDR in the context of Nicaragua. It is intended that the investigative product allows to identify the importance of recognizing, protecting and demanding the protection of these rights in the national reality. The information provided in the current study promotes in the reading community an interest in identifying recent scenarios, with a view to the exercise of these human rights and their impact on the sociocultural reality of the population. Based on a critical recognition of the current Nicaraguan state, regarding DSDR; it will be possible to motivate the deconstruction of a social imaginary, where a culture of violation and transgression of these rights is reinforced and endorsed. The subject has been approached from a comprehensive approach, using qualitative and documentary research methods. ; El presente artículo titulado Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos de las mujeres, análisis sociocultural y legislativo del contexto nicaragüense (DSDR) es elaborado desde una perspectiva holística, incluyendo enfoques antropológicos, sociales, culturales y jurídicos; todos ellos relacionados al análisis de los procesos y dinámicas vinculadas con los DSDR en el contexto de Nicaragua. Se pretende que el producto investigativo permita identificar la importancia de reconocer, proteger y demandar el resguardo hacia estos derechos en la realidad nacional. La información brindada en el actual estudio, promueve en la comunidad lectora, el interés por identificar los escenarios recientes, de cara al ejercicio de estos derechos humanos y su incidencia en la realidad sociocultural poblacional. A partir de un reconocimiento crítico del estado actual nicaragüense, en materia de DSDR; será posible motivar la desconstrucción de un imaginario social, donde se refuerza y avala una cultura de violación y transgresión hacia estos derechos. El tema ha sido abordado desde un enfoque integral, empleándose para ello, métodos y técnicas de investigación cualitativa y documental.

Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are centrally important to health. However, there have been significant shortcomings in implementing SRHR to date. In the context of health systems reform and universal health coverage/care (UHC), this paper explores the following questions. What do these changes in health systems thinking mean for SRHR and gender equity in health in the context of renewed calls for increased investments in the health of women and girls? Can SRHR be integrated usefully into the call for UHC, and if so how? Can health systems reforms address the continuing sexual and reproductive ill health and violations of sexual and reproductive rights (SRR)? Conversely, can the attention to individual human rights that is intrinsic to the SRHR agenda and its continuing concerns about equality, quality and accountability provide impetus for strengthening the health system? The paper argues that achieving equity on the UHC path will require a combination of system improvements and services that benefit all, together with special attention to those whose needs are great and who are likely to fall behind in the politics of choice and voice (i.e., progressive universalism paying particular attention to gender inequalities).