Centre for Professional Skills Development on Public Health (CPSD) worked with CGSRHR and BLAST to arrange the four day long flagship course on ‘Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and the Law’ from 20-23 August, 2017 at BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health to ensure a greater awareness and sensitivity towards Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) amongst legal practitioners within the context of current global policies - such as sustainability, gender equality, social justice, democracy/ participation and the rights perspective. In order to elucidate these ideas, the participants of this short course will hear from various speakers on some of the main themes of SRHR - Sexuality and Health, Maternal Health, Violence in Sexual and Reproductive Contexts and Consent and Choice in SRHR.
The course was facilitated by Barrister Sara Hossain, Supreme Court of Bangladesh and the Honorary Executive Director of the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST), Dr. Selina Ferdous, Consultant who has more than twenty years in public health field with focus on community based sexual and reproductive health. Ms. Samia Afrin, Assistant Project Coordinator, NARIPOKKHO, Ms. Sanaiyya Faheem Ansari, Advocate, Supreme Court of Bangladesh and the Executive Director of the Network of Research and Training (NRT).