Human Rights, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity

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 main theme of this book. Demonstrating how the legal gender assigned at birth impacts on feelings of recognition, self-confidence and self-respect in the private, social, and legal spheres.

Autorentext

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).

Inhalt

1. Human Rights, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity 2. The Yogyakarta Principles at Ten 3. Queering Gender [Identity] in International Law 4. Enhancing LGBTI Rights by Changing the Interpretation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women? 5. The Rights of LGBTI Children under the Convention on the Rights of the Child 6. Legal Gender Meets Reality: A Socio-Legal Children's Perspective 7. Sexual Intimacy, Gender Variance, and Criminal law