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.
COVID-19 and surveillance: English, Portuguese and Spanish
English COVID-19, surveillance and the threat to your rights – Amnesty International Aarogya Setu App Must For All Private, Government Employees: Centre – NDTV Governments Should Respect Rights in COVID-19 Surveillance – Human Rights Watch As Coronavirus Surveillance Escalates, Personal Privacy Plummets – NY Times Snowden warns government surveillance amid COVID-19 could be long lasting […]
Read moreBiopolitics and coronavirus: compilation (English, Portuguese and Spanish)
English Judith Butler: Capitalism has its limits – Verso Books Giorgio Agamben: Contagion – Enough 14 Paul B. Preciado: The losers conspiracy – Art Forum Theoretical Puppets: Foucault on the Coronavirus, Biopolitics, and the “Apparatus of Security” (2020) – Foucault News Biopolitics and Coronavirus, or don’t forget Foucault (2020) – Foucault News Preventing stigma related […]
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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 (April and May update)
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 cash machine – The Critic In India, the pandemic is creating new borders – openDemocracy Aarogya Setu App Must For All Private, Government Employees: Centre – NDTV […]
Read moreCoronavirus and state power: Iran, Turkey, Russia and Kyrgyzstan (April and May update)
Iran ‘Armageddon’: When coronavirus struck a Tehran hospital – Middle East Eye Iran’s corona-diplomacy – Brookings Politics in the Time of Corona: Tehran (Hosted by Jadaliyya Co-Editors Noura Erakat and Bassam Haddad) – Jadaliyya Politics in the Time of Corona: Beyond Incarceration in Iran (Hosted by Jadaliyya Co-Editors Noura Erakat and Bassam Haddad) – Jadaliyya […]
Read moreHungary and coronavirus: authoritarianism (April and May update)
Hungary Hungary rolls back legal protections, puts trans and intersex people at risk – Ilga Europe Hungary votes to end legal recognition of trans people – The Guardian Hungary prepares to end legal recognition of trans people – The Guardian Hungary Rejects Opportunity to Protect Women from Violence – HRW Hungary Backs Out of International […]
Read moreCOVID-19 and sex work: compilation (April and May update)
‘If I don’t have sex I’ll die of hunger’: Covid-19 crisis for Rio’s trans sex workers – The Guardian Puerto Rico’s Sex Workers Are Struggling to Survive – The Nation ‘Don’t have to fight for pennies’: New Zealand safety net helps sex workers in lockdown – The Guardian Sex Workers Struggle to Survive Covid-19 Pandemic […]
Read moreCOVID-19 and religious discourses: compilation (English and Portuguese)
Church forgives sins of those stricken by virus – France 24 Brazilian church wins court battle to remain open despite coronavirus – The Guardian Florida megachurch pastor arrested for breaching Covid-19 health order – The Guardian Coronavirus: Trump cabinet’s pastor blames gay people for ‘wrath of God’ – Independent Israeli rabbi: Coronavirus outbreak is divine […]
Read moreCOVID-19, politics and authoritarianism: compilation (April and May update)
Czechs fear autocratic contagion of coronavirus – Balkan Insight Under cover of coronavirus, the world’s bad guys are wreaking havoc – The Guardian The Fascist Politics of the Pandemic – Project Syndicate Would-be autocrats are using covid-19 as an excuse to grab more power – Economist Authoritarianism in the Time of the Coronavirus – Foreign Policy […]
Read moreCOVID-19 and LGBTQI rights: compilation (April and May update)
Protecting Ourselves in the Age of COVID-19 – MPact The Price of Confinement: The impact of COVID-19 on LGBTQI+ refugees’ community in Lebanon – Arab Foundation For Freedoms & Equality Bangladesh Should Support Hijra, Trans Under Covid-19 – HRW Morocco’s LGBT community faces death threats after online outing – Egypt Independent Trump team moves to […]
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