Sustainability, human rights, and sexuality: Making the right connections

Shaminder Takhar

Local Economy, 2015, vol. 30, issue 3, 256-264

Abstract: This article looks at the local–global nexus of sexuality and human rights, but moves on to examine social sustainability and sustainable development and the link to human rights through concepts such as equality, justice, dignity and diversity. Although liberal attitudes towards sex and sexuality run parallel to conservative, homophobic and religious views, the importance of equality legislation in European countries has been increasingly evidenced through transnational influence on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender concerns in other countries. The article examines developments and setbacks to equality legislation and then goes on to make the case for human rights (via the emphasis on sexual equality) as an essential pillar of sustainability.

Keywords: homosexuality; human rights; sexuality; sexual orientation; social sustainability; sustainable development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1177/0269094215580084

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