Om rätten till sexuell och reproduktiv hälsa för män i Sverige

• Main Author: Hermansson, Isabel
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm, Högskolan för mänskliga rättigheter 2019
• Subjects: Human rights; man; men; gender; equality; sexual and reproductive health; discrimination; Mänskliga rättigheter; män; genus; jämlikhet; jämställdhet; sexuell och reproduktiv hälsa; diskriminering; Other Health Sciences; Annan hälsovetenskap
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ths:diva-157

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.