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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19th Century Women of Colour
Most photographs and paintings of women women of color in the 19th century US — as well as inother slave economies of the period – portray the conditions of slavery. The site downtownlalife collected a series of photographs of handsome and powerful free black women, mostly identified in family albums. The collection was replicated by the […]
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Eugenia Matricardi: body/water/combat
Maria Eugenia Matricardi is a visual artist and a Doctorate student in Contemporary Poetics at the University of Brasília – UnB. She lives in the highlands of Brazilian state power and belongs to the art collective Corpos Informáticos, featured on SPW Sexuality&Art on January 2016. In 2013, at the event Body and Politics, organized by […]
Read moreCall for Submissions: Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion Watchdog
Recognizing 28 September as the Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion, the Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights is calling on all young activists to speak up for abortion rights! The Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion has been celebrated annually on 28 September […]
Read moreResurj: Shortcomings of Penal Policies in Addressing Sexual Rights Violations
Resurj, a global alliance of feminists advocating for sexual, reproductive and gender justice from across the globe, met in New York on April 16-17 2016 to scrutinize and identify the shortcomings and challenges of penal policies in addressing sexual and reproductive rights violations. After two days of fruitful discussions, case study presentations, and debates, Resurj […]
Read moreWhy most Syrian men are not joining ISIS
In discussions around why young Syrian men join armed groups (such as ISIS or Jabhat al-Nusra) in Syria, it often boils down to two main theories: that of sectarianism, the ancient, seemingly perpetual divide between Sunni and Shia Muslims, or that of Islam being a ‘religion of violence’.
Read moreSexual transmission of AIDS on the rise in Iran
A senior Iranian health official warned Wednesday that sexual transmission of HIV/AIDS was on the rise, in part because of taboos about discussing sex. As part of its efforts against HIV/AIDS, the government has for the first time set up centres to provide assistance to prostitutes, including checks for sexually transmitted diseases, education on prevention and free contraceptives.
Read moreIACHR Welcomes Creation of LGBTI Core Group at the OAS
Washington, D.C. — The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) welcomes the recent creation of the Core Group on the Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex Persons (LGBTI) of the Organization of American States (OAS). The group is made up of Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, the United States, and Uruguay. The […]
Read moreNew CHANGE resource on U.S. Foreign Assistance and Female Sex Workers’ Health
CHANGE has released its brand new report “All Women, All Rights, Sex Workers Included: U.S. Foreign Assistance and the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Female Sex Workers.” The report was launched last week before the International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa. The report is the first of its kind as it reviews the […]
Read moreOral histories of LGBT people in Mongolia
Sponsored by the LGBT Centre (Mongolia)’s Youth Leadership Program, Batchimeg S. and Joe Lerangis began the “LGBT Oral History of Mongolia” project in February of 2015. Mongolia’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, and other sexual and gender minority-identifying people are an integral and substantial part of Mongolian society. Their voices, their perspectives, and their stories cannot go […]
Read moreNews and analysis on HIV/AIDS criminalisation
Crosstalk: HIV and linking across areas of criminalisation – Susana T. Fried – openDemocracy
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Performing beyond the gendered zombie economy
Contemporary performance can provide a way of understanding as well as re-imagining what inclusive economies look like, particularly during crises. Performances of the economy are critical in urgent times. In March 2010, the Women’s Campaign Fund (WCF), the only non-partisan venture capitalist organization supporting women leaders in the United States at all levels of office, […]
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Myth vs. Reality: evaluating the Brazilian response to HIV in 2016
The Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA) released today (20/07) “Myth vs. Reality: evaluating the Brazilian response to HIV in 2016”. The publication was showed in the Global Village, Durban, South Africa. Using simple and objective language, the publication offers up hard-hitting analyses in order to contribute to the reconstruction of the Brazilian response to the epidemic, […]
Read moreCALL FOR PAPERS: “Abortion and Human Rights”
The June 2017 issue of Health and Human Rights includes a special section on the intersections between abortion and human rights, and in particular the use of legal mobilization around abortion rights at domestic and international levels, edited by Alicia Ely Yamin, Paola Bergallo and Marge Berer. Topics could include: Conceptual and theoretical analysis of the developments on abortion law […]
Read moreBill Gates’ silver-bullet misfiring at the Mandela Memorial Lecture
Gates, who is worth $80 billion, specialises in top-down technicist quick-fixes, which often backfire on the economic shooting range of extreme corporate influence and neoliberal policies. On Sunday, Gates will get even richer, in terms of the moral legitimacy bestowed by the Mandela Lecture.
Read moreThere’s an economic cost to homophobia — and the numbers are staggering
DURBAN, South Africa — Homophobia exacts a devastating emotional toll. But according to Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS researcher Erik Lamontagne, discrimination against lesbian, gay and bisexual communities carries a substantial economic cost, too. A combination of factors, including discriminatory hiring practices, unequal pay and shorter life expectancies, mean LGB people may […]
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