Call for Papers: Digital Technology and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Papers submitted to the issue should clearly focus on digital technologies related to SRHR, and explicitly highlight human rights related considerations related to digital technology and SRHR. The following are areas of special interest:

• Equity and non-discrimination related considerations, with special attention to the impact of digital technology on marginalised and structurally excluded populations and communities such as adolescents, people living with disabilities, Indigenous refugee and migrant, and internally displaced populations, those affected by war, people living with HIV, transgender persons, LGBQ+ individuals, sex workers and their access to SRH services
• Assessing how technologies can strengthen or impede accessibility, availability, acceptability and quality SRH services, and whether and how rights, including those related to privacy, confidentiality, non-discrimination and equality, are impacted by digital technology
• How cross-cutting digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence and big data analytics, can broaden opportunities and capitalise on efficiency and cost effectiveness within SRH interventions and whether and how they can jeopardise or respect and protect privacy, confidentiality, safety and security
• Analysis and good practices of effective, responsible and transparent governance and accountability mechanisms surrendering SRHRtech, including the collection, storage and sharing of sexual and reproductive health related data, privacy and protection measures both for users and providers,
• Rights-based considerations on the interactions between public and private entities related to digital technologies affecting SRHR, including regarding the role of private actors in public health systems.
• Use of digital technologies in restrictive political, cultural, social, and legal settings – for example, criminalised settings and where access to and the provision of certain SRH services is stigmatised – and documentation of legal, political, and social contexts enabling or disabling the adoption of digital technologies for SRHR.
• Good practices of the development of rights-based laws, regulations and policies regulating digital technologies for SRHR
• Whether and how digital technology has been providing the opportunity for communication, information sharing, organising and advocacy for SRHR movements and advocates.