Let’s Talk About Sex Education and Human Rights in Schools

by | Jan 16, 2017

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Interviewee: Meghan Campbell

Meghan Campbell is a Reader in International Human Rights Law at the University of Birmingham and Deputy-Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub.Her first monograph, Women, Poverty, Equality (Hart 2018) examined women's poverty in the CEDAW and her second, supported with a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, Hanging in the Balance: The Function of Justification in Achieving Women's Equality (Hart 2025), looks at the relationship between women's equality and limits on rights. Her research focuses on women’s economic inequality and other overlooked aspects of women's equality. .

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Interviewer: Kira Allmann

Kira Allmann is the OxHRH Communications Director and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Media Law and Policy at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford. Her current research focuses on digital inequality, exploring community-driven grassroots solutions to closing the digital divide. She leads several research projects, using ethnographic methods to study the role of community-owned internet networks, local digital skills training, and public internet access points in promoting digital inclusion. Kira is also a research partner of the Whose Knowledge? campaign, which works to center the knowledge of marginalized communities on the web. She completed her DPhil in Oriental Studies (Islamic World) at the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship and also holds an MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies (University of Oxford) and a B.A. in Government and Linguistics (The College of William and Mary).

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RightsUp #RightNow is a series of mini episodes in the RightsUp podcast series that explores current events dealing with human rights issues.

On 11 January, members of a public bill committee in the UK parliament voted against an amendment to the Children and Social Work Bill that would have made sex and relationship education compulsory in all schools. In this episode of RightsUp #RightNow, we talk to Dr. Meghan Campbell, Deputy-Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub, about the implications of this decision and the need for a human rights based approach to sex education.

Produced by: Kira Allmann
Interview(s) with: Meghan Campbell
Music by: Rosemary Allmann

Original release: 16 January 2017

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