Intersectionality, human rights and reproductive justice: critical assessment in sexual and reproductive health

diagnóstico crítico en salud sexual y reproductiva

Abstract

In this text, the concepts of intersectionality, human rights and reproductive justice are discussed, from a critical perspective that can contribute to studies and research in the context of evaluating interventions - policies, programs, projects, services - aimed at sexual and reproductive health of the women. The reflection presented here focuses on the issue of sexual and reproductive rights, although it can be extended to other related themes. To this end, it proposes that health assessment - understood as an academic and political space - considers intersectionality as an analytical tool for identifying and confronting women's vulnerabilities; establish human rights as a transversal axis of analysis, that is, as an instrument of evaluative processes in the search for dignity in women's health care; cultivate reproductive justice as an ethical horizon for reflection and action in evaluative spaces.