今年，世界人口日occurs amidst the resurgence of right-wing populist nationalism that wields racial supremacism and heteropatriarchy to consolidate state power and undermine global solidarity in the COVID-19 pandemic response. Though the converging crises of populist nationalism, racial supremacism, and COVID-19 may seem thematically disconnected from World Population Day, they are in fact intimately bound together. These threats are interconnected and reinforcing, particularly for women and sexual and gender minorities (SGM), who are both neglected and actively harmed through contemporary state actions. The sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) movement, by directly countering the logic underpinning these concomitant health and rights harms, provides discrete mechanisms for pushing back – with World Population Day serving as a rallying point for the broader SRHR community in the face of an existential challenge.

融合危机不成比例地伤害妇女和性别少数群体

民粹主义民族主义，传染病爆发和种族至上主义并不是新的祸害。然而，他们快速而同时的上升创造了一个威胁SRHR的全球闪点。

SRHR，以及妇女和SGM的更广泛的人权，have often been a first target of right-wing populist nationalist leaders。在为LGBTQ+平等的推动女权主义和运动中，这是庞大的全球主义阴谋颠覆“传统”家庭价值观的一部分，右翼民粹主义民族主义者Stoke对“其他”的恐惧，并试图通过诺言返回一项诺言，以赢得不幸的选民的忠诚想象的过去。尽管种族至上主义的逻辑是, to racial and ethnic groups deemed “inferior” – whether immigrant or native-born. Such sentiment is translated into policy that strips individuals and communities of their rights, which in turn structures future health inequities. In addition to infringing rights within their borders, populist-nationalist leaders have attacked and, in some cases, defunded UN institutions that support the rights of women and SGM such as the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), and the World Health Organization (WHO). This subversion of global solidarity in multilateral governance—the foundation of the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo—will have lasting ramifications for women and SGM, especially during the pandemic response.

Just a few months into the pandemic—exacerbated by nationalist responses in opposition to global governance—COVID-19 is already having a disproportionate impact on women and SGM. Despite early reports suggesting women are在生物学上不太容易受到该病毒的影响，社会因素正在结合以造成不同的负担。性和生殖卫生服务需要及时提供，但随着卫生系统争夺Covid-19的响应，经常被搁置。妇女和SGM，尤其是那些也是边缘化种族和族裔群体成员的人，更有可能在非正式和服务经济体中工作，全职订单削减了关键的收入来源，并破坏了符合体面标准的权利生活。女人构成majority of frontline health workers因此，更容易接触病毒，威胁其健康权。然而女性和SGM是明显缺席从制定连贯而全面的政策来应对大流行的努力。

Women and SGM have also largely been erased by mainstream media coverage of the emerging global movement against racial supremacist violence, despite efforts to center them through campaigns like#sayhername和#blacktranslivesmatter。对妇女的种族至上主义暴力和SGM经常采取性别形式，例如在性和生殖医疗保健中种族暴力或种族化的忽视和虐待。之所以发生，是因为来自边缘化种族和种族的妇女和SGM存在于intersection of (hetero)sexist and racial supremacist power structuresthat posit them as both sub-woman and sub-human. It is because of this underlying logic that human rights—based on a foundational belief in equal human dignity—have become such a critical and effective tool to counter race-and-gender-based violence and advance sexual and reproductive health.

性和生殖权利为抵抗相互关联的威胁提供了前进的道路

人权为应对危险的危机提供了正义的道路。人权划定政府的义务，并促进了这些义务，这些义务未满足。作为人权的一部分，SRHR在1994年的开罗行动计划中被强行阐明，随后具有约束力和非约束力的国际协议，法学和法学进一步编纂了对妇女和SGM的保护。

大约在同一时间，美国一群黑人妇女创造了一个术语“reproductive justice”,已经开始作为一个明确的和concise policy articulation of the full scope of sexual and reproductive rights recognized under international law. This term explicitly recognizes sexual and reproductive rights as interconnected and indivisible, a reality that can get lost in single-issue programs, advocacy, and policymaking. By encompassing the intersecting rights necessary for bodily integrity, having children, not having children, and parenting children in safe and sustainable communities, reproductive justice provides a framework for understanding the inextricable ties between the contemporary global crises.

The concomitant health and rights harm posed by right-wing populist nationalism, racial supremacism, and the COVID-19 pandemic hit right at the crux of the reproductive justice framework – simultaneously undermining women’s and SGM’s rights to autonomy and self-determination around their sexual and reproductive lives. One cannot enjoy sexual and reproductive freedom without access to quality sexual and reproductive health care; control over whether, when, and with whom to form a family; and the security of knowing that one’s beloveds will not be ripped away through force.

Human rights empower individuals and communities to fight back against violative governments. As legal instruments, human rights establish obligations under international law. But as universal norms, they inspire a broader moral vision, one that brings the world together around the recognition that all people are equal in dignity. Starting from this premise, SRHR offer a holistic approach to centering the lives and wellbeing of women and SGM in the face of the current interconnected threats.