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.

Sep 7, 2018

QueerMuseum: In Defense of Difference

Curator Gaudêncio Fidelis on Queermuseum, his exhibition that was closed down because of pressure from the far-right. INTERVIEW SERIES: ON CENSORSHIP A visual art exhibition became the focal point of political polarization in Brazil last fall. The exhibition, called Queermuseu: Cartografias da diferença na arte brasileira (Queermuseum: Cartographies of Difference in Brazilian Art), opened at Santander Cultural in Porto […]

Sep 7, 2018

Festival ‘For Women’s Lives’ gathered feminists across the country

by Angela Freitas Feminists, networks and organizations engaged in the struggle for the right to abortion in Brazil had two months to prepare a mobilization and communication strategy around the Supreme Court public hearing on ADPF 442 on August 3 and 6. This way, the campaign #NeitherKilledNorJailed was thought of, to resound on social media […]

Aug 13, 2018

International Campaign – Argentina: no turning back

PRESS RELEASE 9 August 2018 – Argentina: no turning back by International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion Argentina’s Senate voted last night – after a 15-hour “debate”, during which the room was mostly empty of Senators – to reject a bill on abortion passed by the House of Deputies in June. The tone […]

Aug 8, 2018

Homoeroticism of the common man

Last year, in London, I have seen, a superb retrospective of Bhupen Khakar the Indian painter who died in 2003. I was fascinated with his biography of a modest art professor living in Baroda, visting friends, walking aroud the city, feeding a gigantic alligator kept captive by one of his fellows. I was also very […]

Aug 6, 2018

Solidarity statement in support of Professor Maria Clara Dias

We, the undersigned, members of the academic community and civil society organizations, denounce the persecution suffered by advocates of the LGBTI+ community and demonstrate our support for Professor Maria Clara Dias, at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, who has been victimized by terrifyingly offensive and untruthful accusations. The attacks are directed at […]

Jul 27, 2018

2018 Pride Day in Iran

July 27 is Pride Day in Iran. It’s been the 9th following year that the 4th Friday of July (1st Fri of Mordad in Persian calendar) is named & celebrated as Iran Pride Day. Although being queer is officially illegal & same-sex sexual conduct could be punished by death in Iran, LGBTIQs inside the country […]

Jul 23, 2018

Indian Anti-Traficcking of Persons Bill 2018

The Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, introduced in 2016 by the Minister for Women and Child Development and approved in February 2018 by Prime Minister Modi and the Union Cabinet, was tabled in Congress with the support of sexual trafficking victims in a public letter addressed to female Members of Parliament on July […]

Jul 9, 2018

What will be of US Supreme Court pending to the conservative?

Trump ‘Very Close’ to Supreme Court Decision, but May Wait Till Final Hours – The New York Times In Making His Second Supreme Court Pick, Trump Has a Model: His First – The New York Times Retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy Often the Man in the Middle – The New York Times Without Kennedy, the Future of Gay […]

Jul 5, 2018

ICD-11: media compilation

The World Health Organization will stop classifying transgender people as mentally ill – CNN Being Transgender Is No Longer Considered A Mental Disorder By World Health Organization – HuffPost A shameful history comes to a close – Equal eyes on our world World Health Organisation moves to end classifying trans identities as mental illness – TGEU Depathologisation […]

Jul 3, 2018

Being trans is not a mental disorder anymore: ICD-11 is officially released.

The World Health Organization has just announced the completion of the ICD-11 and released the official online version. The announcement does not mark the end of the ICD-11 process, but the beginning of a new phase focused on implementation and assessment at the country level. The new ICD version will be presented for final approval at World Health […]

Jun 29, 2018

Puta Dei goes international in 2018: US events and news

New York’s Sex Workers rally to take back International Whores Day: ‘Let us survive’ – The Daily Beast Puta Dei in NYC and New Jersey – Best Practices Policy Sick of going to jail: the roots of Puta Dei – NoHumanInvolvedFilme Performance ‘Whore in a box’ – NoHumanInvolvedFilme What Is International Whore’s Day? Sex Workers Are […]

Jun 26, 2018

Marginal accounts on LGBTQI+ Pride 2018 around the world

Several hundred people danced, marched and raised slogans on the Chennai 10th Rainbow Pride March with banners and flags celebrating the date on June 24. In Guyana, the only country in South America where homosexuality is illegal, hundreds celebrated the 1st Pride March in the country despite religious discourses against it. Against pink-washing the Palestinian […]

Jun 15, 2018

Global Public Health Journal releases a critical perspective edition on the “End of AIDS”

On the eve of the 2018 International AIDS Conference that takes place in Amsterdam (Netherlands) in July, the Global Public Health Journal, one of the main academic publications on global public health, released its latest volume “Special Symposium: Critical Perspectives on the ‘End of AIDS”, an issue that reunites a collection of articles on the too […]

Jun 5, 2018

Painted bodies

“Decisions about your body, your health and your life belong to you, they are your rights, make them true.” These were the slogans of the 2009 campaign “HaceLosValer” (Make them count, in English) coordinated by Carola Cardenas, which promoted urban intervention in front of the Uruguayan Parliament for sexual and reproductive rights. One of the […]