Inga Winkler and Maya Unnithan and Karine Aasgaard Jansen Inga Winkler and Maya Unnithan and Karine Aasgaard Jansen

Inga Winkler is an Associate Professor in International Human Rights Law at the Central European University in Vienna, Austria. She takes a socio-legal approach to her research, which focuses on socio-economic rights, gender justice and sustainable development. Her books include the first comprehensive monograph on the human right to water, the Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies, and an edited volume on the Sustainable Development Goals. Inga is the founder and co-director of the Working Group on Menstrual Health & Gender Justice and the co-chair of the University Seminar on Menstruation & Society at Columbia University. Maya Unnithan is Professor of Social and Medical Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Cultures of Reproduction, Technologies and Health (CORTH; www.corth.ac.uk) at the University of Sussex, UK. In her research on sexual and reproductive health rights and through CORTH Maya works to bring together perspectives from anthropology, global public health, and international development. Maya works with health and legal-aid NGOs as well as policy makers to reduce reproductive health inequalities globally. Her book Fertility, Health and Reproductive Politics: Re-imagining Rights in India (2019) is based on ethnographic work in India since 1998. Karine Aasgaard Jansen is a senior researcher in medical anthropology at the Chr. Michelsen Insititute (CMI) in Bergen, Norway. She is the coordinator of the research group "Poverty and Global Health", and the initiator of CMI's and the University of Bergen's pilot project "Pushing Pads". She takes a critical approach to public health in her research, which includes vector-borne diseases, pandemic preparedness and vaccine hesitancy. She is also strongly committed to issues concerning women's health, and her more recent research interest in menstruation was awoken while doing ethnographic fieldwork on fertility control, including abortion, in Madagascar.

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Menstruation Matters for the Realization of Human Rights

Menstruation Matters for the Realization of Human Rights

Menstrual activism is at its height, and this year’s day of menstrual awareness and action on May 28 has more momentum than ever before. Around the globe we have artistic endeavours which put menstruation in the spotlight from an ...