TAG: sexual rights
Ecuador “Cure” Clinic Raided: 17 Rescued, Torture Claims Emerge
Equador faces a double pattern in adressing reproductive and sexual rights: while Presidente Rafael Corrêa makes pression against abortion legalization, his Public Health Ministry leads an police raid against an illegal “reabilitation” centre aimed at offering treatments for drug addiction, alcohol and homosexuality. Click here to read more about it.
Read moreAfrican Regional Conference on Population and Development: final document
African Regional Conference on Population and Development, based at Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia (3 and 4 October 2013), has resulted on a final document called “Africa Regional Report”, which brings main findings and recommendations. The text is too generic and evasive on issues like abortion and maternal mortality, as well as other topics regarding women sexual and […]
Read more6th Asia Pacific Population Conference
The 6th Asia Pacific Population Conference (APPC) took place at the end of September in Bangkok. The final document brings recommendations on gender equality and sexual and reproductive rights, including access to contraceptive, reduction of maternal mortality and access to safe abortion (at this point, the document points that such access must be avaialable under […]
Read morePope Francis remarks on sexual and reproductive issues
Pope Francis, once more, came with new remarks on issues related to sexual and reproduticve rights. His messages prompted reaction all over the world. What does it means? Read some analysis gathered by SPW: Huffington Post: Pope Francis Says More Nice Words About LGBTs, Changes Nothing New York Times: With His Remarks on Sexual Morality, […]
Read moreRegional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean 2013
The Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean ended on August 15, 2013 after country delegates agreed upon a groundbreaking document the “Montevideo Consensus On Population And Development” that fully reaffirms and goes beyond guidelines established by the Cairo Program of Action in 1994. Hundreds of civil society representatives […]
Read moreRead some information on the recent Brazilian context on regressions in sexual and reproductive politics.
Read some information on the recent Brazilian context on regressions in sexual and reproductive politics.
Read moreSexual and reproductive rights at the 2012 Universal Periodic Review of Brazil
Read “INTRODUCTION: Sexual and reproductive rights at the 2012 Universal Periodic Review of Brazil”, written for the SPW Newsletter N. 12, based on analysis of Magaly Pazello, from EMERGE-Communication and Emergence Research Centre and Women’s Networking Support Programme of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC).
Read moreGiant leap backwards regarding the reproductive rights at Rio+20
Global: Gender equality and women’s human rights have continuously been a challenge and sexual and reproductive rights were not included in the Rio+20 document, which was a giant leap backwards. Read a series of contents on this issue.
Read moreRio+20 and the agenda regarding the sexual and reproductive health and women rights
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) will take place in, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 20-22 June 2012. Check more information on the agenda regarding the women’s rights and sexual and reproductive health at the Rio+20 Summit.
Read morePanel discussion will highlight the politics of human rights interventionism
UK: The Equal Rights Trust and the Human Rights Lawyers Association invite to the panel discussion “Advancing Sexual Rights in the ‘Developing World’: The Politics of Human Rights Interventionism”, which will take place in London, on 10 May 2012. Read more.
Read moreABIA and SPW support the Brazilian UPR Pre-session
Brazil: ABIA and SPW supported the Brazilian UPR Pre-session, which took place on April 2nd, in Geneva, presenting a short video and recommendations aiming to contextualize some recent aspects of human rights in the country.
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