Around the world
Since its launching, in 2006, the Sexuality Policy Watch website has circulated relevant information on sexual politics trends, events and actors around the world. This investment has resulted in a rich archive of global and national sexual politics.
One main feature of this database is that it is not confined to specific areas or issues. It encompasses information on abortion, sexual and reproductive rights, sex work, sexual violence, gender and women’s rights, HIV and AIDs; and emphasizes materials and analysis that contribute to locate these issues in relation to the political economy of sexuality. Since 2013, key facts, events and trends are selected and highlighted in monthly announcements.
World Association for Sexual Health’s Declaration of Sexual Rights
The World Association for Sexual Health has published the Declaration of Sexual Rights, in which it reaffirms that sexual rights must be respected, protected and fulfilled.
Read moreMeeting Report: Orientations and Identities: Sexuality and Human Rights on the Global Stage Conference
The meeting report for the Orientations and Identities: Sexuality and Human Rights on the Global Stage Conference, that took place in May, Los Angeles, has come out. Click here to read it.
Read moreThe Right To Autonomy Over Our Bodies And Loves: The Resolution On Human Rights, Sexual Orientation And Gender Identity Furthers Dialogue
FRIDAY FILE – AWID spoke to Dawn Cavanagh* of the Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL) in South Africa and Sexual Rights Initiative (SRI), about the significance of the resolution on Human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity recently adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council. The resolution follows the first ever UN resolution adopted on […]
Read moreInternational Day of Action for Trans Depathologization 2014
STP, International Campaign Stop Trans Pathologization The International Day of Action for Trans Depathologization 2014, convened by STP, International Campaign Stop Trans Pathologization1, took place on Saturday, October 18, 2014. Within the framework of this Call to Action, 108 groups and organizations coordinated more than 90 actions for trans depathologization in 45 cities2 of different world […]
Read moreNew issue of SUR – International Journal on Human Rights
The new issue of SUR – International Journal on Human Rights celebrates its 10th anniversary with 55 articles on the challenges and sucesses of the human rights movement. Click here to read the issue, that brings an article by SPW co-chair Sonia Corrêa analysing how emerging powers – Brazil, Russia, China, India and South Africa […]
Read moreCall for applications – Multi-country CEDAW Shadow Report Training (deadline 21 October 2014)
International Women’s Rights Action Watch (IWRAW) Asia Pacific with the support of Masimanyane Women’s Support Center (South Africa) will be hosting a multi-country CEDAW shadow report training from the 21-24th of November 2014. This training will take place in South Africa. The location to be confirmed. This training is financially supported by the Swiss Agency […]
Read moreConversion Therapy: A Bigger Threat to Africa Than Scott Lively
By Kapya Kaoma, on October 6, 2014 Conversion therapy, also known as ex-gay or reparative therapy, is the biggest obstacle to LGBTQ liberation in Africa. An idea promoted heavily in African nations by U.S. conservative Evangelicals who hold tremendous power and sway, many African Christians have bought into the thoroughly debunked belief that through […]
Read morePedophilia: A Disorder, Not a Crime
By MARGO KAPLAN OCT. 5, 2014 CAMDEN, N.J. — THINK back to your first childhood crush. Maybe it was a classmate or a friend next door. Most likely, through school and into adulthood, your affections continued to focus on others in your approximate age group. But imagine if they did not. By some estimates, 1 […]
Read moreOrganization of American States Links Abortion Restrictions to Violence Against Women; Calls on Governments to Decriminalize Abortion
10.03.14 – (PRESS RELEASE) For the first time ever a committee within the Organization of American States (OAS)—considered to be the United Nations for the Americas—is recommending that all governments decriminalize abortion in cases of rape and incest, when the woman’s health or life is at risk and in cases of fetal impairments. This OAS committee focused on […]
Read moreSolidarity with Egypt LGBT
Human rights groups are calling for a protest on 18 October 2014 in front of every Egyptian embassy around the world to protest against human rights violations committed by the Egyptian government. Learn more about it.
Read moreHuman Rights Tulip
Every year, the Dutch ministry of Foreign Affairs awards the Human Rights Tulip to a human rights defender who promotes and supports human rights in innovative ways. The candidates that participate in the election for the Human Rights Tulip 2014 have been announced and the public voting has started today. You can vote on a […]
Read moreReproductive Justice Activists Must Combat Anti-Choicers’ False Push for Disability Rights
by Erin Matson, Editor at Large, RH Reality Check September 24, 2014 – 2:41 pm All over the country, from Denver to Minneapolis and beyond, billboards recently sprang up featuring a smiling white boy cradling a white infant. “My brother is a blessing,” reads the text above the children’s heads. “He has Down syndrome.” […]
Read more‘Yes Means Yes’ Is a Bad Coupling of Feminism and the State
by Laurie Essig California’s enacting on Sunday of the “yes means yes” law is a victory for some campus feminist activists but an ill-conceived detour for feminism. The new law guiding how colleges must handle accusations of sexual assault will require “an affirmative, conscious, and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity.” In other words, if […]
Read moreAs Women Die from Illegal Abortions in Brazil, Presidential Candidates Remain Silent
By Lucy Jordan September 25, 2014 | 8:05 pm In late August, a 27-year-old woman named Jandira dos Santos Cruz went to a bus station in Rio de Janeiro and got into a stranger’s car. She was four months pregnant. Communicating via text, Cruz had arranged to meet a woman who would take her to […]
Read moreSeptember 28th – Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion
SPW joins forces with other networks and organizations engaged in the Global Day of Action for Access to Safe Abortion. We recall that the date is a creation of Latin American feminists who choose September 28th to evoke the Brazilian 1871 Decree of the Free Womb granting freedom to the children born of slave’s mothers. […]
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