Om rätten till sexuell och reproduktiv hälsa för män i Sverige
2018 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesisAlternative title
Sexual and reproductive health as a human right for men in Sweden (Swedish)
Abstract [en]
1994 in Cairo United Nations Population and Development Fund held a conference where the attending 179 nations agreed that Sexual and reproductive health is a human right. Everyone is entitled to this right without distinction.
This thesis investigates what covenants, declarations, policies, strategies and national law say about sexual and reproductive rights for men, specifically men in Sweden.
The thesis aims to enlighten the reader about men’s situation in a welfare state where discriminatory structures in society is reproducing gender stereotypes in a country that is one of the most gender equal countries in the world.
The general lack of common knowledge and subsequent lacking education in the matter is abundantly clear when browsing documents issued by official sources throughout the world. While Europe and its countries have begun to examine and call attention to this neglected subject, progress is still slow and could be hazardous to men’s sexual and reproductive health.
The thesis concludes with an argument that Sweden have a discriminatory structure built in society that discriminate men and their right to sexual and reproductive health according to Discrimination Act 2008:567 by practices that appear to be neutral but can affect men in a negative way.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2018. , p. 43
Keywords [en]
Human rights, man, men, gender, equality, sexual and reproductive health, discrimination
Keywords [sv]
Mänskliga rättigheter, man, män, genus, jämlikhet, jämställdhet, sexuell och reproduktiv hälsa, diskriminering
National Category
Other Health Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ths:diva-157OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ths-157DiVA, id: diva2:1282505
Subject / course
Human Rights
Educational program
Bachelor’s Programme in Human Rights
Supervisors
Examiners
2019-01-252019-01-252023-10-11Bibliographically approved