This position paper introduces sexual justice as a transformative framework for addressing

the systemic inequalities and inequities that shape global and local experiences of sexuality,

health, and rights. While international frameworks have recognized sexual and reproductive

rights as fundamental human rights, they remain unevenly realized, particularly for those

who live at the intersections of socio-economic injustice, structural violence, and oppression,

moralistic control, colonial legacies, and authoritarian retrenchments. Sexual justice challenges

us to move beyond necessary individual and collective protections toward structural

transformation. It reframes our understanding of what it means to live with dignity, autonomy,

full citizenship, and pleasure. In doing so, it interrogates the legal, political, medical,

economic, and cultural systems that determine whose lives are deemed legitimate, whose

desires are punished, and whose knowledge is erased. Grounded in the lived experience of

movements that have long resisted oppression and marginalization, drawing on theoretical

and historical perspectives, intersectional analysis, global solidarity and activist knowledge,

sexual justice offers a shared foundation for reflection and action, serving as both a political

compass and a call to build just, inclusive, and participatory systems across health, education,

law, civil society, and international cooperation. Sexual justice requires equity as a core

condition for access, not only to healthcare, information, and education, but also in the distribution

of power and resources. It insists on reparations and redress for past and ongoing

harms, and centers on those most affected in defining the path forward. This paper offers

strategic recommendations for governments, institutions, social movements and sexual

health professionals to operationalize sexual justice through legislative reform, institutional

accountability, resource redistribution, and participatory practice. Endorsed by The World

Association for Sexual Health (WAS), this framework builds upon the Porto Proclamation:

Advancing a Global Agenda for Sexual Health, Rights, and Justice (2026), the WAS

Declaration on Sexual Justice (2025), the WAS Declaration on Sexual Pleasure (2019), and

the WAS Declaration on Sexual Rights (2014).