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.
UN Human Rights Committee recommends abortion law reform in Argentina
The UN Human Rights Committee has released a report slamming the state of abortion rights in Argentina and criticizing President Mauricio Macri’s decision to strike down key articles of the Broadcast Media Law and its subsequent effects on freedom of expression on 15 July.
Read moreEl Salvador: the world’s most punitive anti-women, anti-abortion laws
Twenty-one members of the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena) in El Salvador submitted a motion on 11 July to the parliament for debate on 14 July to reform Article 133 of the Penal Code, increasing the penalty for women who cause or consent to an abortion from up to eight years in prison to a minimum of 30 years and a maximum of 50 years.
Read moreHow governments in the Global North can effectively partner with intermediary organizations to support LGBTI communities in the Global South and East
“The Road to Partnerships” was commissioned by GPP in fulfillment of a commitment made during the Conference to Advance the Human Rights of and Promote Inclusive Development for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI) Persons in Washington, DC in November 2014. The purpose of this report is to identify and discuss government funding case studies that […]
Read moreKohl’s new issue: Beyond Victims and Savages – The Complexities of Violence, Resistance, and Pleasure
Going beyond the dichotomy of victims and savages entails a nuanced understanding of violence. Such an understanding perceives mainstream violence as indivisible from other paradigms of large-scale oppression – hegemony, socioeconomic injustice, institutionalization, neoliberalism, occupation… It also accounts for the normalized violence we live on a daily basis, in silent acts of coercion, harassment, bullying, and self-damage, and the ways in which they are informed by macro instances of violence, and vice versa.
Read morePolitics, abortion, sexuality in Brazil (2015-2016) : A compilation
Between May 2015 and September 2016, Sexuality Policy Watch has produced monthly brief reports on the Brazilian politics of abortion and sexuality in its connections with the wider conservative restoration underway, which culminated with the admissibility of the impeachment of president Dilma Roussef in May 2016. In this cycle we have covered the new wave of feminist […]
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Women artists: Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Njideka Akunyili Crosby is a Nigerian born artist who moved to the United States in 1999. Her main medium is collage and her works are usually impressive large. She weaves images evoking how daily life is ‘back home’, the traces of colonialism and the broken threads of diaspora: “Akunyili Crosby’s characters and scenes, however, occupy […]
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Women artists: Maria Teresa Hincapié
Maria Teresa was Colombian actress who became a visual art performer. She died of cancer in 2008. Her art directly dialogued with the impacts of continuous political conflict in Colombia, various dimensions of women ‘s life and sacrality. In the words of Constanza Ramires (in Spanish): In the complexity of a sweeping technological era those who […]
Read moreLondon’s Romanian Sex Workers Are Worried That Brexit Would Screw Them
Against the backdrop of the EU referendum campaign, London-based Romanian women sex workers are using EU law to challenge the police and fight for their rights. Under Operation Nexus, the Met are monitoring Romanian sex workers, rounding them up and ordering them to leave the country because they claim that sex work doesn’t count as legitimate employment.
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Brazil in crisis: Another update
In June, 2016, as the impeachment of Dilma Roussef followed its course, it became increasingly evident that one of the strongest motivations of the power maneuvering that led to the April parliamentary coup was the interest of many of those supporting this move to strangle the ongoing investigations on corruption.
Read moreThe creation of a UN SOGI mandate
On June 30th the Human Rights Council, after a complex and difficult negotiation has voted a resolution that establishes the mandate of and Independent Expert on Human Rights and Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. In, May SPW has reported on this upcoming process and now we offer a brief compilation of statements and first analyses […]
Read moreApplications for MATI 2016 now open – deadline: 20 July
Source: http://www.genderjustice.org.za/news-item/applications-mati-2016-now-open/
Read moreThe ‘state’ and sexual politics: An interview with Gloria Careaga
On March 2016, we relaunched our Spanish website that (among other things) provides access to the Spanish translation of Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil: Sexual Rights in Emerging Democracies. This book, authored by Rafael Dehesa, examines how sexuality became a fully legitimate political matter in Brazil and Mexico. Two months later, on […]
Read morePride and Prejudice: Sex Workers Are Excluded from Budapest Pride
The Pride movement is about fighting social exclusion and discrimination – but what if the Pride organisers themselves exclude and discriminate against those who are in the greatest need of support – LGBTI sex workers? This is what happened in Budapest, where a workshop on sex work was banned from the festival. The mission of […]
Read moreThe Secret History of Holywell Street: Home to Victorian London’s Dirty Book Trade
Victorian sexuality is often considered synonymous with prudishness, conjuring images of covered up piano legs and dark ankle-length skirts. Historian Matthew Green uncovers a quite different scene in the sordid story of Holywell St, 19th-century London’s epicentre of erotica and smut.
Read moreINDEPENDENT EXPERT ON SOGI: WHAT WOULD REAL SUCCESS LOOK LIKE?
In what was described as a dramatic milestone by human rights activists working on the promotion and protection of human rights on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity, members of the United Nations at the 32 session of the Human Rights Council voted a resolution that provides a new mandate for an independent expert that will be responsible for reporting violence suffered by people on the grounds of their real or perceived sexual orientation and gender identity, globally.
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