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Objectives

The participants can:
a) Analyse the concepts of sex and gender in relation to human rights and how they are built on binary thinking;
b) Reflect on the historical aspects of gender-related questions in human rights law;
c) Critique the changing socio-legal concepts of gender and sex and assess the potential of the sexgender concept;
d) Identify the historical specificity of sex/gender dichotomy as socially constructed and some central tensions in the conceptual shift from ‘women and men’ to ‘gender’, ‘sex’ and ‘sexgender’;
e) Compare the scope of sex/gender-related discussions under different human rights systems and instruments;
f) Reflect on a range of timely topics related to sex/gender and human rights, including gender-based violence, sexual harassment, reproductive rights, intersectionality, gendered categorisations of women, men and sexual orientation, and legal gender recognition;
g) Understand the implications of binaries in legal thinking through a variety of theories.