In March 2018, Amnesty International published the Body
Politics: Criminalization of Sexuality and Reproduction
series, a new resource to equip its global movement, as well as partners and
advocates, to challenge unjust criminalization of sexual and reproductive
actions, decisions, and gender expression. The series includes a book-length
primer that provides our overarching theoretical analysis regarding states’
resort to criminalized approaches to sexuality and reproduction, an overview
of international human rights standards that apply to these issues, case
studies, and substantive issue annexes on abortion, sex work, sex outside of
marriage, adolescent sexuality, conduct during pregnancy (such as drug use),
same-sex sexuality and HIV exposure, non-disclosure, and
transmission.
What Is to Be Done? Can Human Rights Advocates Reframe Their Relationship
with the Punitive State?
