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.
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ABIA statement: democracy in Brazil and COVID-19 health policy
The Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA) expresses deep concern regarding President Jair Bolsonaro’s latest changes in the Ministry of Health and regarding his active support for a demonstration in favor of a military coup d’état that was held on Sunday (April 19th) before the Army headquarters in Brasilia. As usual, after being criticized, Bolsonaro tried […]
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130 groups from different religions sign declaration on COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean
Preamble 1. We, the undersigning individuals and organizations, have gathered from all over Latin America in joint work to accompany people and communities of faith and society in general amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Also known as Coronavirus, this disease has disrupted all the personal and social life of those who inhabit this continent. That also […]
Read moreCOVID-19 in South Africa: news and analysis
MAY / JUNE Global report: South Africa records biggest jump in Covid-19 cases since pandemic hit – The Guardian African countries are struggling to keep track of COVID-19 – The Economist What African Nations Are Teaching the West About Fighting the Coronavirus – New Yorker MARCH / APRIL “We are still waiting” – protesting under […]
Read moreCOVID-19 in Gaza/Palestine: news and analisys (April and May update)
Gaza/Palestine Domestic Violence in COVID-19 Lockdown: Palestinian Women Are Dying at an Alarming Rate – Egyptian Streets COVID-19 in Palestine: Living between hope and fear – Global Voices Politics in the Time of Corona: Gaza (Hosted by Jadaliyya Co-Editors Noura Erakat and Bassam Haddad) – Jadaliyya Politics in the Time of Corona: Punishment in Palestine (Hosted […]
Read moreCOVID-19, reproductive health and abortion
MAY / JUNE Hospital’s COVID-19 Policy Separated Native American Mothers From Their Newborns – Truthout Denied beds, pain relief and contact with their babies: the women giving birth amid Covid-19 – The Guardian The Sexual Health Supply Chain is Broken – The Atlantic US Supreme court strikes down abortion restriction in major victory for campaigners […]
Read moreAbortion under attack during COVID-19 pandemic (April and May update)
English Trump, Bannon y Cañizares: los lobbies ultrarreligiosos alimentan la teoría de la conspiración abortista del coronavirus – el diario The Coronavirus Is Cutting Off Africa’s Abortion Access – Foreign Policy Moscow Halts Abortions During Coronavirus Outbreak: Activists – Moscow Times Poland: Reject New Curbs on Abortion, Sex Ed – HRW How a harsh Polish […]
Read moreCOVID-19 and surveillance: English, Portuguese and Spanish
English Securing Data and Labor Rights in the Post-Covid Digital Era – Bot Populi Big Tech Is Using the Pandemic to Push Dangerous New Forms of Surveillance – Truthout Police in the US take surveillance to the sky – podcast The Take UK NHS contact tracing app could endanger LGBT Human Rights, Minorities Warned – […]
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COVID-19 and Biopolitics: Compilation I (March-June 2020)
The Agamben Debates Giorgio Agamben: Contagion – Enough 14 Philosophy and Pandemic in the Postdigital Era: Foucault, Agamben, Žižek – Post Digital Science and Education The Biopolitics of Immunity in Times of COVID-19: An Interview with Roberto Esposito – Antipode Online Giorgio Agamben: The Plague was Already Present – Critical Legal Thinking Understanding the Coronavirus […]
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Putas Against COVID-19 in Brazil
Prostitution is recognized as a profession by the Ministry of Labor in Brazil. It is a foundational economy for thousands of families and red light districts in the country. Sex workers, like the majority of autonomous workers, have seen their possibilities for income all but disappear with the coronavirus pandemic. Organizations supporting sex workers in […]
Read moreCoronavirus in Kashmir: news and analisys (April and May update)
Use of UAPA Against Journalists is Last Nail in Coffin for Press Freedom in Kashmir – The Wire ‘Third World Region of a Third World Country’: How Kashmir Struggles With the Coronavirus – The Wire Is Covid-19 Overshadowing Regular Treatment in Kashmir? – Mena FN Kashmir Tensions on the Rise as Residents Face New Lockdown […]
Read moreUN on COVID-19, gender and domestic violence
English States must combat domestic violence in the context of COVID-19 lockdowns – UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, endorsed by other UN rights experts UN experts call for urgent action to mitigate heightened risks of violence against children – UN Special Rapporteur on sale and sexual exploitation of children & UN Special Representative […]
Read moreCoronavirus in North Africa and Middle East: news and analysis (April and May update)
Mena countries COVID-19: Impact on MENA Countries – Arab Reform Initiative COVID-19 in the Middle East: Is this pandemic a health crisis or a war? – Global Voices Fighting COVID-19 goes hand-in-hand with shuttering newspapers across the Middle East – Global Voices Across the Middle East, many women face a double threat: Abuser inside, virus […]
Read moreUN on COVID-19, rights and democracy
English COVID-19: States should not abuse emergency measures to suppress human rights – UN experts COVID-19: Who is protecting the people with disabilities? – Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities States should take action against COVID-19-related expressions of xenophobia, says UN expert – Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, […]
Read moreUN on COVID-19, discrimination and stigma
English COVID-19 fears should not be exploited to attack and exclude minorities – UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues “Unacceptable”: UN expert urges better protection of older persons facing the highest risk of the COVID-19 pandemic – Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons COVID-19: Do not forget internally displaced persons, […]
Read moreIndia and coronavirus: news and analysis (March – June)
Delhi Progrom Victims Getting No Treatment Due to COVID-19 – National Herald FIR against Scroll’s Supriya Sharma for story on Varanasi woman’s lockdown ‘misery’ – The Print The World’s Biggest Lockdown – ABC ‘My angel’: man who became face of India’s stranded helped home by stranger – The Guardian How Modi turned Covid-19 into a […]
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