Sexuality, health and human rights: A knowledge-resource of jurisprudence and law (2012)

Hossam Baghat.

Kajal Bhardwaj.

Simone Cusack. is Strategic Policy Coordinator at the Public Interest Law Clearing House in Melbourne, Australia. Before joining PILCH, she worked as a Fellow in the International Reproductive and Sexual Health Law Programme at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and as a lawyer at Australian law firm Blake Dawson. Simone Cusack has published and lectured on a range of human rights issues and is co-author with Prof. Rebecca J. Cook of Gender Stereotyping: Transnational Legal Perspectives (2010). She holds a B.A./LL.B. (Hons.) from Monash University, Australia, and a LL.M. from the University of Toronto, Canada, with a focus on women’s rights.

Vivek Divan.

Corey Friedman. is an attorney at Worksafe, an organization that advocates for protective workplace safety laws, including adequate enforcement and effective remedies for injured workers. Before joining Worksafe, she spent several years as a litigator and was also a project fellow at the Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law at the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in San Francisco.

Alice M. Miller. is a Lecturer in Residence and Senior Fellow at the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at the School of Law, University of California Berkeley. Previously, Ali Miller was an Associate Clinical Professor of Population and Family Health & International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, teaching in the Columbia’s Schools of Law, Public Health and International and Public Affairs. Ali’s past work includes co-Directing the Center for the Study of Human Rights and the Human Rights Concentration at Columbia University, School of Public and International Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University from 1989. In 1998-1999, she was a Rockefeller Fellow in the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Human Rights at the School of Public Health. She is a visiting professor at the Sexuality and Rights Institute, Pune, India, for two weeks each year, and at the International School, Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture and Society, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, for one week each July. Ali has over 20 years of policy and advocacy experience with non-governmental organizations, including directing the women’s rights program at the Human Rights Law Group (now Global Rights) [at the Law Group, 1993-98]; Amnesty International USA’s Program against the Death Penalty [1991-1993], and co-founding AIUSA’s programs on women’s rights, and LGBT rights programs. She continues to work with local and international NGOs, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and local and national NGOs such as the the Women’s Institute for Leadership Development (USA), and CREA and TARSHI (India) on human rights issues in the US and globally.

Charles Ngwena. LLB, LLM (Wales) is a Professor in the Department of Constitutional Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of the Free State, South Africa. He has taught and published widely on issues at the intersection between human rights, ethics and health care, including HIV/AIDS, reproductive health. In recent years, he has begun to research on disability. He serves on the editorial board of Medical Law International. He is Section Editor of Developing World Bioethics and Chief Editor of the Journal for Juridical Science. He has co-edited two books – Employment Equity Law (2001) with Professor JL Pretorius and Ms E Klink and Health and Human Rights (2007) with Professor RJ Cook. Professor Ngwena serves on a number of national and international committees, including the Scientific and Ethical Review Group of the Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction of the World Health Organization. He directs an LLM programme on Reproductive and Sexual Rights.

Esteban Restrepo.

Mindy Roseman. is the Academic Director of the Human Rights Program, and a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Before joining HRP, Roseman was an Instructor in the Department of Population and International Health at Harvard School of Public Health, and a Senior Research Officer at the International Health and Human Rights Program, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health. Previously she had been a Staff Attorney in the International Program of the Center for Reproductive Rights, NY, NY. She holds a JD from Northwestern University Law School and a PhD in Modern European History, with a focus on the history of reproductive health.

Carol Vance.

Johanna Westeson. JD (Uppsala, Sweden), LL.M (Columbia Law, New York) is a Swedish human rights attorney presently working the Swedish Foundation for Human Rights. She has a long experience from working on human rights, women’s rights, and sexual health in Latin America and elsewhere. She has lived, among other places, in La Paz, Bolivia, where she worked with Sida as responsible for the agency’s human rights and reproductive rights programs. At the Swedish Human Rights Foundation she is in charge of the Latin American program, channeling technical and financial support to women’s rights and human rights organizations in the Latin American region with a particular focus on strategic human rights litigation. She also gives courses and trainings on human rights and is presently in charge of starting up an LGBT rights project within the organization.