This ten-day course, intended for people concerned with social change in Africa, aims to build capacity for advancing rights within development and activist organizations.

The Initiative for Health and Human Rights (UNSW) is a multidisciplinary research, teaching, service and advocacy initiative that aims to develop integrated strategies to examine the intersection between health and human rights from new viewpoints. The IHHR advances health and human rights as both an area of study and a new, composite method of research. Sexual rights are one of several core concerns.

An annual two-week residential course that focuses on the conceptual study of sexuality and examines the links between sexuality and rights and their interface with the related fields of gender and health. Participants examine sexual and reproductive health programmes as well as various legal and socio-cultural issues. The course focuses on the conceptual understanding of the fields of sexuality and human rights and their linkages and connections with issues of gender and health. The course also seeks to build analytical and critical skills to assess the impact of various programs, strategies and practices in the field of sexuality and reproductive health on the rights of individuals. It especially focuses on adolescents and women and aims to create a new generation of leaders who will incorporate concepts from these four inter-related fields into their work in sexuality.

The Sexuality and Rights Institute is co-organised by CREA and TARSHI