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.
Making Naughty in the New India
New York Times brings an article on how new Indian government can adress the Section 377, upheld by the Supreme Court in december and which outlaws all intercourse other than peno-vaginal sex. Read here.
Read moreLGBTTTI Coalition at the OAS 44th general Assembly
LGBTTTI Coalition celebrates tha approval of the seventh resolution on human rigths, sexual orientation and gender identity and expression at the OAS 44th General Assembly. Click here to read its statement.
Read moreSex Crimes That Shouldn’t Be
In an article published by New York Times, Laurie Shrage writes about discrimination against people living with HIV. Read it.
Read moreAfrica Has Its First Black, Out Gay Member Of Parliament
Take a look at BuzzFeed‘s article about Zakhele Mbhele, the Africa’s first out gay black MP to join South Africa’s parliament.
Read moreOur sexual and reproductive rights are not negotiable!
As the pace of Brazilian presidential election campaign accelerates once again abortion rights are caught into the eye of the storm. Last week, the Ministry of Health suspended a recently adopted ordinance aimed at precisely identifying abortion procedures in those cases permitted by law and defining new levels of financial coverage for these procedures. Beatriz […]
Read moreBrazil: the abortion frontline
In Brazil, not surprisingly, abortion has once again flared up in the path towards the next Brazilian presidential election campaign. The presidential candidate of the PSB, Eduardo Campos, said during a Catholic mass in the Basilica of Aparecida do Norte, that he is against abortion and that Brazilian law as it is is not to be […]
Read moreABIA disseminates a statement repudiating police action against sex workers in Niterói (RJ)
The Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association vehemently repudiates the grave human rights violations committed on May 23rd by civil police against more than 200 sex workers and residents in a building in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro. Sex workers reported that during the invasion, conducted by police without a warrant, violations including robbery, assault, and rape occurred, […]
Read moreHuman Rights Speaker Series
On May 28th, Sonia Corrêa, SPW co-chair, spoke at the panel on Human Rights at the Global Stage, organized by the City of West Hollywood. Here is the link.
Read moreReport “From Torment to Tyranny” Enhanced Persecution in Uganda Following the Passage of the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2014, 20th December 2013 – 1st May 2014
Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) and the National LGBTI Security Committee have been documenting the different cases of violences following the Anti-Homossexuality Bill Approval in 2013. Click here to read the report.
Read moreWHO Inter-Agency statement on Forced Sterilisation
The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a statement aimed at contributing to the elimination of forced, coercive and otherwise involuntary sterilization. It reaffirms that sterilization as a method of contraception and family planning should be available, accessible, acceptable, of good quality, and free from discrimination, coercion and violence, and that laws, regulations, policies and […]
Read moreAfrica: Resolution on human rights violations on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, meeting at its 55 Ordinary Session held in Luanda, Angola, from 28 April to 12 May 2014, delivered a groundbreaking resolution on human rights violations on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. This outcome is the result of systematic work performed by civili society organizations […]
Read moreThe girls cannot be a “pretext”
The kidnaping of more than 200 girls by the extremist Islamic group Boko Haram in Nigeria has prompted a worldwide campaign for their release, in which figures like Michele Obama and singers and Hollywood celebrities have featured. The international media has made of the kidnaping one key topic, more than often affirming that the the […]
Read moreUganda: Anti-Homosexuality Act’s Heavy Toll
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have reported a surge in human rights violations at Uganda since the passage of the Anti-Homosexuality Act in 2013. Click here to learn more.
Read moreNot the ‘Illuminati’: How Fundamentalist Christians Are Infiltrating State and Federal Government
An article from RH Reality Check shows how fundamentalist christians are reaching space on US state and federal governmemt. Read here.
Read moreHelen Clark: Statement on International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia
Read Helen Clark (UNDP) statement highlighting LGBT rights as matter of concern to all working on human development. Click here.
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