Rebecca Smyth

Dr Rebecca Smyth is a Lecturer in International Human Rights Law at Birmingham City University and a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at Utrecht University. Her research focuses on women’s and LGBTQ* rights, and the (sometimes productive) tensions arising from historically oppressed groups engaging with the language and mechanisms of human rights. At present, she is developing a research project entitled Abortion, reproductive freedom, and sexual and reproductive health and rights: lessons from El Salvador. She is also conducting research in the areas of postcolonial/decolonial theory, and disability rights and activism. Rebecca holds a BA (First-Class Honours) in European Studies and an MPhil (Distinction) in Gender Studies from Trinity College Dublin. She completed her LLM (Distinction) in International Human Rights Law and her PhD in International Human Rights Law at the University of Edinburgh. Her work has appeared in Feminist Review, as well as in edited collections with Hart and Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.

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Manuela v El Salvador: A Missed Opportunity for Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Manuela v El Salvador: A Missed Opportunity for Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Image description: A march supporting decriminalisation of abortion. One of the participants is a woman wearing green (the symbol of sexual and reproductive rights in Latin America) and holding a poster calling for abortion to be made ...