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TAG: religious extremism

Awid’s “Facing Fundamentalisms Newsletters”

Awid’s “Facing Fundamentalisms Newsletters” seek to spark engagement and interaction from readers who are confronting religious fundamentalisms across a diversity of contexts. March edition is focused on Religion, Culture, Tradition and Fundamentalisms at the UN.

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The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that Biblical speech opposing homosexual behavior is essentially a hate crime

Canada: The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that Biblical speech opposing homosexual behavior, including in written form, is essentially a hate crime. Read more.

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Head of Commission for Human Rights and Minorities in Brazil’s lower house of parliament accused of homophobia and racism

Brazil: The Commission for Human Rights and Minorities in Brazil’s lower house of parliament elected an evangelical pastor from the Christian Social party to be the president. The Congressman Marco Feliciano is accused of homophobia and racism and outcries has spread to street around the country. Read more.

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Towards a Future Without Fundamentalisms

Read Towards a Future Without Fundamentalisms and Feminists on the Frontline: Case Studies of Resisting and Challenging Fundamentalisms, two reports by AWID.

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Emergency Contraception: Catholics in Favor, Bishops Opposed

The Catholics for Choice and the International Consortium for Emergency Contraception released a new briefing paper entitled Emergency Contraception: Catholics in Favor, Bishops Opposed, detailing how Catholic bishops continue to oppose access to emergency contraception and lead opposition efforts, going against the beliefs of the majority of Catholics. Read the paper.

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Echoing Butler’s refusal

By Rosalind Petchesky and Sonia Corrêa* Judith Butler’s refusal to receive the Berlin Christopher Street Day (Gay Pride) Civil Courage Prize echoed ideas we have discussed in Sexuality, Health and Human Rights (2008). In the book we deliberately opted to avoid the term ‘fundamentalism’ – which is extensively used by sexual rights activists  – to […]

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Islamic Defender Forum again attacked HIV/AIDS seminar in Bandung West Java

Islamic Defender Forum again attacked HIV/AIDS seminar in Bandung West Java

Indonesia: Read a note written by Kamilia, from the Institut Pelangi Perempuan, an Indonesian Youth Lesbian Center, on one more meeting attacked as a result of harassment from some fundamentalist and hard-line Islamic groups.

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LGBT Rights trampled in Surabaya: A chronology of a tragedy

Indonesia: ILGA through its Co-Secretary General Gloria Careaga provides detailed information on what really transpired in Surabaya, Indonesia and why the Fourth ILGA Asia Regional Conference was canceled. Read more.

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Homophobia, Africa and Evangelical Neocolonialism

Read the article “Homophobia, Africa and Evangelical Neocolonialism” on the Uganda’s anti-homophobia Bill, written by Rosalind P. Petchesky, Member of the SPW’s Steering Committee and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.

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Sexuality and religion

2.5 Sexuality and religion Vatican: Read the article The Great Catholic Cover-up, by Christopher Hitchens, a columnist for Vanity Fair and the Roger S. Mertz media fellow at the Hoover Institution, on the most recent revelations about the steady complicity of the Vatican in the ongoing scandal of child rape. Read more on “Pedophilia, Ratzinger […]

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Fourth panel – Religion and Sexual Politics

Fourth panel – Religion and Sexual Politics Afternoon – August 25, 2009 After the presentation and debate of the conference overview paper on religion and sexual politics, a panel was given by the following scholars:  Jaris Mujica, professor of the Universidade Católica do Peru (Catholic University of Peru) of the Universidade Cayetano Heredia (Cayetano Heredia […]

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Fourth Session – Sexuality, Religion and Politics

Fourth Session – Sexuality, Religion and Politics Afternoon – August 25, 2009 The last session of the Dialogue, coordinated by Gloria Careaga, started with the presentation of the overview paper Sexuality, Religion and Politics in Latin America, prepared by Juan Marco Vaggione, researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET- National Council […]

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