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What is the latest news on the abortion rights front in Brazil?

Carla Batista and Sonia Corrêa* In November 2016, the first bench of the Brazilian Supreme Court, in a judgment of a habeas corpus of health professionals condemned in a criminal [...] Read more

Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema

By Arnika Fuhrmann Through an examination of post-1997 Thai cinema and video art Arnika Fuhrmann shows how vernacular Buddhist tenets, stories, and images combine with sexual politics in figuring current struggles over [...] Read more

Sexuality, Health and Society – Latin American Journal 26th issue

The 26th issue of Sexuality, Health and Society – Latin American Journal, organized by the Latin American Center of Sexuality and Human Rights (CLAM/IMS/UERJ) is out now and brings a paramount [...] Read more

Sex workers speak: who listens?

Gendered, racist, classist, homophobic, and transphobic violence haunts the world of sex work. Sex workers speak. Who listens? addresses that violence, but it does so from the perspective of sex workers themselves. [...] Read more

The Sur file on Natural Resources and Human Rights

Patrick Alley, Global Witness Guest Editor Oliver Hudson, Sur Journal Managing Editor Five years ago, on 26 April 2012, Chut Wutty, a courageous Cambodian land rights defender, was shot dead [...] Read more

Psychology in Russia: State of the Art – Psychology of sexual and gender identity

Psychology of sexual and gender identity Volume 10, Issue 1, 2017 (click here to access it) Certainly, many significant and important strides in achieving equality and rights have been made [...] Read more

RHM’s new issue: Disability and sexuality: claiming sexual and reproductive rights

Reproductive Health Matters is pleased to publish its 50th journal issue! Over the past 25 years, RHM has supported new thinking about sexual and reproductive health and rights and it [...] Read more

Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2017

A global coalition of civil society organizations and trade unions launched last weeek at the United Nations in New York the report “Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2017” during the High-Level [...] Read more

Sexual politics in Ecuador in the 2000’s: a bird’s eye view

By María Amelia Viteri and Gabriel Ocampo. Homosexuality was criminalized in Ecuador until November, 1997[1]. As a result, until then, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons were considered criminals, could [...] Read more

Queer Asia 2017 – Conference Review

By Matthew Waites. The Queer Asia conference has emerged as one of the most fresh and ground breaking conference events in global queer studies. The event is held at the [...] Read more

The mountain delivered a pope

By João Manuel de Oliveira. The legend says that Portugal is a conservative country with a supposedly glorious past, whenever colonization and its engagement with the slave traffic eliminated from [...] Read more

ARROW for Change – Intersections: The Politicisation of Religion and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

The world is seeing a resurgence of religious extremism at national, regional, and global levels, which renews the threat to many of the rights that would be achieved and concretised [...] Read more

Macro-and Micro-Political Vernaculizations of Rights: Human Rights and Abortion Discourses in Northern Ireland

This paper examines the translation of human rights norms into discourses on abortion in Northern Ireland, a region where abortion is highly restricted, with extensive contemporary public debate into potential [...] Read more

Brazil: under the shadows of chaos a major threat to abortion rights

As this highly volatile and complex political context was building up, PEC 29/2015, the Constitutional amendment on the right to life from conception -- tabled by Senator Magno Malta in [...] Read more

A Non-believing Muslim’s Experience of Islamophobia

Guest post by SARAH ATHER My life has revolved around the concept of God. I have been a Muslim, a theist, an agnostic and an atheist in all types of [...] Read more
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