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.
Gender Identity and Reproductive Autonomy: Deconstructing sex, gender and roles
About the publication The right to found a family is a fundamental right recognized by many international treaties and conventions. This is an evolving right, indicating that it is expanding and changing the meaning of other fundamental rights. In this sense, the development of this right has created the framework for a more democratic and equalitarian […]
Read moreBrunei Penal Code reform adopts sharia law
The Sultan of Brunei: opulence, power and hard-line Islam – The New York Times Will Brunei’s anti-LGBT Sharia law spread across Southeast Asia? – CNN Brunei’s ultra-rich monarch adopts harsh Sharia punishments – The Economist Will Clooney’s Brunei boycott really work? – BBC Brunei Darussalam: Heinous punishments to become law next week – Amnesty International […]
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Feminist resistance against the 2019 WCF
Christian right summit in Verona draws massive protest – The Guardian Women cross borders to confront the far right in Italy – openDemocracy International anti-LGBT, anti-abortion congress opens in Verona – The Local.it Croats Present on Opposing Sides at Family Congress in Verona – Balkan Insight Protestors Sing Against Families | World Family Congress, Verona, […]
Read moreThe seal of an alliance: Trump and Bolsonaro meet
Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro meets with Donald Trump to consolidate their far-right alliance – The Intercept Right-wing movements merge as Bolsonaro visits Trump – Politico Trump praises Brazil’s new President Bolsonaro after he vowed to ‘strengthen democracy’ – CNBC A tale of two Trumps: Jair Bolsonaro goes to Washington – BBC Bolsonaro is betting his presidency […]
Read more2019 World Congress of Family: compilation of news and analysis
World Congress of Families in Verona: An international alliance united in hate – Hungarian Spectrum Family Congress in Verona shows tensions between Vatican and populists Catholics – Crux Revealed: dozens of European politicians linked to US ‘incubator for extremism’ – openDemocracy Italian neo-fascists prepare to join World Congress of Families events – openDemocracy Europe’s aristocratic […]
Read moreSexual politics aspects on the Christchurch massacre: news and analysis
What happened in New Zealand is no coincidence – openDemocracy Jacinda Arden is leading by following no one – The New York Times The Myth of the ‘Lone Wolf’ Terrorist Continues with New Zealand Attack – Rewire Behind New Zealand Terror Attack Is a Problem Bigger Than Islamophobia – Rewire How White-Supremacist Violence Echoes Other Forms […]
Read moreInternational Women’s Day around the world: a balance
Police Stop Women’s Action against Domestic Violence in Baku, Azerbaijan. March in Istanbul, Turkey Amnesty International praised the Ukrainian police efforts in seven cities across the country to safeguard demonstrators at the International Women’s Day rallies. In Honduras, Berta Cáceres was celebrated and protesters demanded justice for her murder (read here). Call for the 2020 […]
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“You’ll see me, therefore I exist”: black body and beauty
In the March issue of SPW’s Sexuality & Art, we feature the works of American black artist Mickalene Thomas. She invites us to decolonizing look into traditional paintings by pooting the black female bodys and their subjectivities literally at the center of her work. In 1955, Emmett Till, a black child, was pistol-whipped, beaten, and […]
Read moreCSW 2019: demonstrations of a coordinated religious conservative backlash
We Can’t Let the Trump Administration Dismantle Women’s Rights Around the World – Rewire Trump Administration Fails to Roll Back Support for Landmark Women’s Rights Agreement at United Nations – Rewire US accused of trying to dilute global agreements on women’s rights – The Guardian No peace without women human rights defenders – ISHR Feminist […]
Read moreUrgent action at the 63rd CSW
It has come to our attention that the facilitator of Agreed Conclusions for the 63rd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), Koki Muli Grignon from Kenya, has been targeted by extremist groups and individuals that called for their supporters to flood her personal cell phone with anti-abortion / anti-gender text messages. […]
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In whose interests the Federal University of Alagoas dean and officers are being criminalized?
Recife, 15 March 2019. We are in a political moment marked by setbacks and by obscurantism against universities, which attack their finest traits: critical thinking, social education, research, community outreach and faculty compromised with social change. The Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL) progressive project carried out by dean Valéria Correia and her team is praised […]
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Brazil’s Ministry of Education creates a commission to monitor national SATs
The Ministry of Education (MEC) created on Wednesday (March 20th) a three-person commission to assess the national exam whose scores are used to get in a university, known as ENEM – High School National Exam. The three-part group was assembled with a former student of the Ministry of Education, Ricardo Vélez Rodríguez, who will be […]
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UFMG becomes a target of religious conservative politics for a visiting professor call
by Marco Aurélio Máximo Prado, Professor at the Psychology Department at UFMG In the last few weeks, the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) has been the target of attacks and inquiry from politicians and civil society who were activated by a federal congressman over an open call for a Visiting Professor position on Queer […]
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The Personhood Movement: Where it came from and where it stands today
A pro-life license plate on a car in Montgomery, Ala. (William Widmer, special to ProPublica) 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decides Roe v. Wade, making abortion legal in all 50 states. But in his majority opinion, Justice Harry Blackmun notes, “If this suggestion of personhood is established, [Roe’s] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to […]
Read moreCollective action and political voice for women’s empowerment
On Friday 8 March, millions of people around the world celebrate International Women’s Day, paying tribute to women’s achievements in the ongoing fight for equality. Key to realising this year’s campaign of ‘building a gender-balanced world’ is strengthening women’s participation in politics and their ability to influence the decisions that affect their lives. There is significant rigorous […]
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