Battle for Sex?: Protecting Sexual(ity) Rights in Africa

Sex Laws and Sexuality Rights in Comparative and Global Perspectives

This article seeks to explain the emergence of a new field of study oriented toward sex laws and sexuality rights in comparative and global perspectives. We argue that this field comes into focus because of three changes in the social context: the introductions of sexuality into sex, of human rights into national laws, and of global into comparative perspectives. Each turn of the social kaleido...

The global battle for sexual rights

Received 23 April 2014; Accepted 23 April 2014; Published 17 May 2014 Copyright: – 2014 Altman D and Beyrer C; licensee International AIDS Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medi...

Sexuality, health, and human rights.

Protecting Children's Rights

Program managers and researchers promoting children's rights to health, education, and an adequate standard of living often gather data directly from children to assess their needs and develop responsive services. Gathering information within a participatory framework recognizing children's views contributes to protection of their rights. Extra precautions, however, are needed to protect childr...

Economic incentives for protecting digital rights online

Once electronic content—such as a password to access a website’s resources— has been released, it is very difficult to prevent it from being shared, which can cause economic harm to the content’s owner and others. Most attempts to prevent unauthorized sharing of digital content have been based on technology or legal punishments, but these approaches have not been completely effective. We propos...