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Recognition of sexual pleasure as a human right : a critical analysis of the Maputo Protocol
Mini Dissertation (MPhil (Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Africa))--University of Pretoria, 2024.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/96531 Recognition of sexual pleasure as a human right : a critical analysis of the Maputo Protocol Ngwena, Charles dalainekrige@gmail.com Krige, Dalaine UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Human rights Sexual rights Maputo Protocol Sexual pleasure Women's rights Mini Dissertation (MPhil (Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Africa))--University of Pretoria, 2024. This research examines why women are having bad sex and the role that human rights law can play in acknowledging, challenging and potentially changing it. This paper argues that sexuality is political and that it is affected by societal structures and systems of power. Sexual pleasure is seen as a fundamental human right that these gendered systems of power threaten. The evolution of sexual health, sexual rights and sexual pleasure is studied to ascertain the connections between the three concepts. International and regional human rights documents are analysed to argue that sexual pleasure is a human right. The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, otherwise known as the Maputo Protocol, is analysed in greater detail to determine whether sexual pleasure as a human right can be read into it. Although there is no express mention of the right to sexual pleasure in international or regional human rights instruments, we can infer the right to sexual pleasure through the rights to equality and non-discrimination, autonomy and bodily integrity, the highest attainable standard of health, and freedom of expression. Obstacles to the realisation of sexual pleasure as a human right are also explored. Centre for Human Rights MPhil (Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Africa) Unrestricted Faculty of Laws SDG-05: Gender equality 2024-06-19T09:24:56Z 2024-06-19T09:24:56Z 2024-09 2023-08-30 Mini Dissertation * S2024 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/96531 Disclaimer letter en © 2023 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Human rights Sexual rights Maputo Protocol Sexual pleasure Women's rights Recognition of sexual pleasure as a human right : a critical analysis of the Maputo Protocol |
| title | Recognition of sexual pleasure as a human right : a critical analysis of the Maputo Protocol |
| title_full | Recognition of sexual pleasure as a human right : a critical analysis of the Maputo Protocol |
| title_fullStr | Recognition of sexual pleasure as a human right : a critical analysis of the Maputo Protocol |
| title_full_unstemmed | Recognition of sexual pleasure as a human right : a critical analysis of the Maputo Protocol |
| title_short | Recognition of sexual pleasure as a human right : a critical analysis of the Maputo Protocol |
| title_sort | recognition of sexual pleasure as a human right a critical analysis of the maputo protocol |
| topic | UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Human rights Sexual rights Maputo Protocol Sexual pleasure Women's rights |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/96531 |