Why do human rights matter for menstrual health?
Location:
Centre for Reproductive Health,
Royal Infirmary
Seminar Room (1.05) of the new IRR Building (South)
Date/time
Fri 23 February 2024
14:00-15:00
About the event
Human rights often seem like abstract legal concepts far removed from medical education and practice. In this talk, I seek to break down human rights principles into concrete suggestions and guidance. What does non-discrimination and substantive equality mean in the context of menstrual health? How do we translate participation, voice and agency into concrete practice? And what does it mean to understand people who menstruate as rights-holders who can hold institutions accountable to their human rights obligations? My hope is to spark a conversation around these questions to facilitate mutual learning.
About the speaker
Dr Inga Winkler is an Associate Professor in International Human Rights Law at the Central European University in Vienna, Austria. Her research on menstruation focuses on three overlapping strands: evaluating policy developments; understanding social mobilization; and centering the lived experiences of people who menstruate and how they intersect with different forms of marginalization. She is the co-editor of the field-defining Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies and co-chair of the standing seminar on Menstruation & Society at Columbia University. She previously taught and researched at Columbia, NYU, and Berkeley in the US and Stellenbosch in South Africa and worked as human rights advisor on water and sanitation in the context of the United Nations.
This event is part of the Centre for Reproductive Health (CRH) seminar series with support from the Mason Institute for Medicine, Life Sciences and the Law.
This event is in person only.