Sexual rights as human rights: a guide to authoritative sources and principles for applying human rights to sexuality and sexual health
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title={Sexual rights as human rights: a guide to authoritative sources and principles for applying human rights to sexuality and sexual health},
author={Alice M Miller and Eszter Kism{\"o}di and Jane Cottingham and Sofia Gruskin},
journal={Reproductive Health Matters},
year={2015},
volume={23},
pages={16 - 30},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:19540104}
}43 Citations
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