Bracketing sexuality: Human rights and sexual orientation - A decade of development and denial at the UN

Health and Human Rights

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 49-82

  Saiz, Ignacio ^a  

^a Intl Wking Grp Sexuality/Social Plcy   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER ISSUE; HUMAN RIGHTS; LEGAL SYSTEM; UNITED NATIONS;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 7044265054     PISSN: 10790969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4065348     Document Type: Article

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