Transgender Men Who Experienced Pregnancy After Female-to-Male Gender Transitioning
SPW recommend the study Transgender Men Who Experienced Pregnancy After Female-to-Male Gender Transitioning, aimed at conducting a cross-sectional study of trans- gender men who had been pregnant and delivered after transitioning from female-to-male gender to help guide practice and further investigation.
Read moreOn being transgender in Egypt
Aisha* was sleeping when her apartment was raided. She and three other friends had just moved in when the police came by asking if they had weapons or anything illegal. They said no, and were asked for their identity cards. Aisha and her friends are transgender women, but their identity cards say they are male. When the […]
Read moreKohl’s summer issue is out!
Check the English version of the very first issue of Kohl: a Journal for Body and Gender Research. Kohl serves as an alternative platform of knowledge production. It tackles feminisms, bodies, and sexualities, as they intersect with other identities and struggles in the Middle East, South West Asia, and North Africa region. Coming soon: Keep an eye out for the […]
Read moreFundamental rights intersex people not respected
Wednesday, 13 May 2015 Yesterday, the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency launched a focus paper on the fundamental rights situation of intersex* people. The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights also published a research paper on human rights and intersex people. Both papers share important conclusions, including the need to break down the discriminatory barriers […]
Read moreSexual politics in May 2015
In early May, SPW re-launched its website. Its new architecture allows an easier access to our products, publications and other contents. In particular, we call your attention to new SPW products, the good news of observer’s status granted by the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights to the Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL) and […]
Read moreSticks and Stones: Violence in Intimate & Family Relationships of MSM, Transgender Women & Hijras and its Impact on HIV Vulnerability
This policy brief summarizes the impact of intimate partner and family violence on the HIV vulnerability of men who have sex with men (MSM), transgender and hijra community members in India. It calls for an end to the denial and acceptance of emotional, physical, sexual and financial violence experienced by these groups and offers recommendations […]
Read moreTaking Action to Combat State-Sanctioned Violence Against Women Worldwide
by Leila Hessini, Ipas / Global Fund for Women and Beatriz Galli May 28, 2015 – 12:23 pm May 28 is the International Day of Action for Women’s Health—a day advocates have commemorated since 1987. This year, the focus is on institutional violence. (Shutterstock) Violence against women is one of the most pervasive human rights […]
Read moreHEALTH SECTOR REFORM, MATERNAL MORTALITY AND ABORTION A Global Policy Research Effort
This global research effort was undertaken between 2004 and 2006 by DAWN, Development Alternative with Women for a New Era. Coordinated by Sonia Corrêa, it looks into the ways in which health sector reform processes intersects with maternal mortality and abortion in 13 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay; Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad&Tobago, Suriname; Nigeria, Ghana and […]
Read moreScott Long: Tweet for Egypt on IDAHOT: Why it’s important
It’s the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia (IDAHOT, for short). Here’s one important thing you can do. Tweet, or post on Facebook, or write on your blog with a message of support for trans and gay and lesbian Egyptians. Use the hashtags #Antihomophobia, or in Arabic #ضد_رهاب_المثلية . Or the hashtag #انا_مش_مجرم_انا_مختلف — in English, it’s #Am_not_aCriminal_Am_just_Different […]
Read moreThe GOP: Fiddling With Your Uterus While Our Country Burns
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check May 14, 2015 – 4:06 pm At a time when the nation is facing numerous crises, including crumbling and increasingly dangerous infrastructure, the GOP leadership in Congress is deregulating and defunding services and agencies that save people’s lives, while obsessing about abortion bans. And for this […]
Read moreIntersectionality in LGBTI Advocacy
Written by Fernando D’Elio of Akahata (with input from Neha Sood of Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights) as part of the 2015 ILGA Report on State-Sponsored Homophobia Sexual orientation and gender identity and expression (SOGIE) activism often does not account for the many contexts oppression is expressed in – for example, race, ethnicity, gender, […]
Read moreIcons, by Scott Long
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Read moreDeport me
Scott Long writes about the case involving a Libyan student whom police expelled from Egypt in 2008, after a complaint that he was gay, which gained high visibility in the Western gay and mainstream media in April 2015. Read more here.
Read moreCriminalization of Abortions Among Young Women: Analysis of the Public Safety and Justice Systems in Rio de Janeiro
Read the article Young Women: Analysis of the Public Safety and Justice Systems in Rio de Janeiro, by Carla Gomes and Beatriz Galli.
Read moreThe abortion frontline in Brazil: one step forward
Fábio Grotz & Sonia Corrêa Abortion is criminalized in Brazil, except in the cases of woman’s life risk, rape and anencephalic mal formation of the fetus. Though the topic is usually spoken about in whispers in daily conversations – and in many social contexts, abortion remains a taboo – clandestine and unsafe termination of pregnancy […]
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