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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.
Minister Araújo is questioned in public hearing for anti-gender foreign politics
SPW has transcripted and translated Minister of Foreign Affairs Ernesto Araújo remarks during a Public Hearing on July 8th, 2019, when he was summoned to explain the repetitive stance against gender-related themes during multilateral meetings. Minister of Foreign Affairs Ernesto Araújo | Opening remarks For our Itamaraty work, this connection with Congress, with the Chamber […]
Read moreBrazil vetos term “gender” from UN resolution: a compilation
Itamaraty instructs diplomats to stress that gender is only biological sex – Folha de São Paulo Eleonora Menicucci: Women will not bow to the delay of this government – Folha de São Paulo Brazil abstains in vote on sexual and reproductive health at UN – Uol Brazilian Theological Diplomacy: A one-day report behind the scenes of the […]
Read morePride 2019: compilation of accounts
‘People of faith against LGBTphobia’ in São Paulo Pride The group of Freaks in the São Paulo pride Millions celebrate LGBTQ pride in New York amid global fight for equality – Reuters Tensions between trans women and gay men boil over at Stonewall anniversary – Reuters Ukraine hosts biggest ever gay pride parade – Reuters […]
Read moreVatican New Guideline on Gender and Education
Vatican Issues Document During Pride Month Denying Concept Of Gender Identity – NPR LGBTQ Catholics denounce Vatican’s document on gender identity – PBS Vatican rejects the notion that gender identity can be fluid – NYT Vatican launches guide to tackle ‘educational crisis’ on gender – The Guardian Vatican condemns gender theory as bid to destroy […]
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Health policy: From lull to cataclysm
by Fábio Grotz With regards to the trajectory of the policy response to HIV and reproductive health in Brazil — which, between 1980 and the first decade of the 21st century was very positive – it was inevitable that the incoming Bolsonaro government would cause damage, particularly with regards to sexual health. It must be […]
Read more2019 World Health Assembly becomes stage for antigender forces: a compilation
IWHC Statement on Universal Health Coverage at WHA72 – IWHC Snakebites and kissing bugs among surprise items on World Health agenda – NPR Opinion: Gender equality is central to achieving UHC and climate mitigation – Devex US rebukes World Health Organization for its abortion activism – C-Fam
Read moreEurope elections 2019: a compilation of articles
Euro-election results 2019: a wake-up call to traditional parties – openDemocracy The path to electoral victory in Salvini’s Italy: Open opposition to the pope – The Washington Post The far right didn’t sweep the EU elections. Europe’s centre is holding – The Guardian European elections 2019: Tories unlikely to deliver on Brexit, says Farage – […]
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Statement read in response to attacks on sexual and reproductive rights during Mercosur meeting
Buenos Aires, July 31th, 2019 Thank you very much, Mr. Secretary, and good afternoon to all. We very much celebrate this space and hail the declarations delivered by some States during the morning session for the respect to the principles of transversality, integrality and no-regressivity of human rights. Mercosur and its Meeting of High-Level Authorities on Human Rights (RAADH) […]
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Understanding the dismantling of the AIDS response in Brazil
Rio de Janeiro, May 27th, 2019 Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA) After the justifications given by the Ministry of Health for the establishment of the new structure of the Department responsible for the response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic – among the measures is the renaming of the former Department of Surveillance, Prevention and Control […]
Read moreBolsonaro attacks against universities: compilation of articles
Walking toward the cliff – Inside Higher Ed Bolsonaro’s budget cuts in Universities – Inside Higher Ed In Brazil, a Hostility to Academe – Inside Higher Ed We deplore this attack on freedom of expression in Brazil’s universities – The Guardian Brazilian universities fear Bolsonaro plan to eliminate humanities and slash public education budgets – The […]
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Bolsonaro’s budget cuts in universities
by Marcelo Knobel* By making what the minister considers a “very small cut”, it will be impossible for universities to conduct daily operations at even minimal standards of quality. Science has long ceased to be an exclusive concern for scientists and has become a strategic dimension of state affairs. In the contemporary knowledge society, where […]
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Politics of Death: The End of Brazil’s Department of AIDS
Brazil’s national AIDS movement – comprised of networks, collectives, CSOs and activists signed below – repudiates Decree N. 9795 (read in Portuguese), released on May 20th, 2019, that establishes a new structure for the Ministry of Health. As a result, the former Department of STIs, Aids and Viral Hepatitis is now named the “Department of […]
Read moreSexuality in the 2019 Indian elections: compilation
Rainbow wave: record number of LGBTs running for office in India – The Times of India Riding the rainbow: first Lok Sabha elections since Section 377 was scrapped down – DNA India Queer rights enter election script, but not all parties on same page – The Times of India Sneha Kale first transgender contesting Lok […]
Read moreAbortion rights in dispute
Alabama’s abortion ban is about keeping poor women down – The Guardian Trump fulfills his promises on abortion, and to Evangelicals – The New York Times Alabama’s abortion ban shows the chilling effect of Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment – The Guardian Revealed: the fringe rightwing group changing the UN agenda on abortion rights – The Guardian […]
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