Abstract
The new agency UN WOMEN must play an active role in the standardization of laws and policies at the global and national level where their incongruence has negative and often criminal consequences for the health and lives of women and girls. This article focuses in on three such examples: opt-out testing for HIV, criminalization of vertical transmission, and the new World Health Organization guidelines on breastfeeding.
Keywords
Feminism, United Nations, vertical transmission, criminalization, USAID
Subject Categories
UN Women, HIV (Viruses), Breastfeeding, Women, Standardization - Law and legislation
Disciplines
Criminal Law | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Women
Publisher
Yale Law School
Publication Date
Winter 2011
Permanent URL
http://hdl.handle.net/2047/d20001180
Recommended Citation
6 Yale Journal of International Affairs 32 (2011).
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Notes
Originally published in Yale Journal of International Affairs, Vol.6, No.1, pp.32-42, Winter 2011.