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.
African Commission Calls on Uganda to Ensure The Right to Legal Abortion and Access to Reproductive Health Services
The government of Uganda should stop impeding access to medical abortion and reproductive health services, according to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights—a regional body charged with ensuring African states comply with their human rights obligations under regional and international human rights treaties.
Read moreGuyana: Midwives, nurses & pharmacists can provide abortion pill
In Guyana, Madam Justice Roxane George has interpreted its Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act of 1995 to permit midlevel providers to deliver nonsurgical/medication abortion of not more than eight weeks. This now means that medexes (persons trained above midwives, but below doctors, who serve in remote areas), midwives, nurses and pharmacists can provide the abortion […]
Read moreChile House of Deputies passes abortion bill
Yesterday, 17 March, the House of Deputies of the Chilean Congress passed the abortion law reform bill tabled by President Michelle Bachelet and her coalition colleagues over one year ago, following a heated debate.
Read moreSection 377 violates the principle of non-discrimination, hope Supreme Court of India recognises that: UN expert
The State has a responsibility for protecting the LGBTI community from violence, a UN expert said on Wednesday, adding that he hopes that the Supreme Court of India makes an “enlightened” and “progressive” decision on the matter.
Read moreLife and Death in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a dangerous place to be pregnant. It has one of the highest rates of maternal death in the world, second only to Afghanistan in the Asia Pacific region. Only slightly more than 50 percent of women give birth in a facility or with the help of a skilled birth attendant, […]
Read moreEuropean Parliament demands protection LGBTI refugees, also from ‘safe’ countries
Today, the European Parliament adopted a report on the situation of women refugees and asylum seekers in the EU, paying particular attention to the situation of LGBTI asylum seekers. The report is a response to the invisibility of female refugees and their concerns in the wake of the steep increase of asylum seekers arriving in […]
Read moreRight to sexual and reproductive health indivisible from other human rights – UN experts
GENEVA (8 March 2016) – The right to sexual and reproductive health is not only an integral part of the general right to health but fundamentally linked to the enjoyment of many other human rights, including the rights to education, work and equality, as well as the rights to life, privacy and freedom from torture, and individual autonomy, UN experts have said in an authoritative new legal commentary.
Read moreSA Minister of Justice calls on Africa to respect LGBTI people
South Africa’s Minister of Justice has called on African nations to accept the human rights of LGBTI people and to change their attitudes towards sexual orientation and gender identity. On Thursday, delegates from across the continent opened the “Africa Regional Seminar on Finding Practical Solutions for Addressing Violence and Discrimination Against Persons Based on Sexual […]
Read moreNews and analysis on the Indonesian crackdown on LGBTI people
Indonesian Psychiatrists Classify LGBT People As Mentally Ill In Order To ‘Treat’ Them – Think Progress The Next Big LGBT “Propaganda” Ban Is Being Written In Indonesia – Buzzfeed Indonesia plans anti-gay ‘propaganda’ law over ‘national security’ issues – Pink News Indonesia discussing anti-LGBTI propaganda law – Gaynz The LGBT Debate and the Fear of […]
Read more‘Spotlight’ abuse scandal didn’t end in Boston. In South America, it’s still unfolding
The Boston Globe’s investigation busted open a massive Catholic Church scandal in the United States 14 years ago. But in remote parts of South America, GlobalPost discovered that the church practice of reassigning child abusers to another parish, instead of defrocking them, has continued.
Read moreOHCHR Report on the Contribution of the family to the realization of the right to an adequate standard of living for its members
In July 2015, during the 29th Session of the Human Rights Council, as reported by SPW and many other sources, a Resolution on the Protection of the Family has been adopted. This was very difficult debate and the final text failed to recognize and include recently adopted human definitions in relation to family formations, gender […]
Read moreNEW DATES for 13th AWID International Forum in Brazil: 8-11 September 2016
After careful consideration, AWID’s Board of Directors has decided to postpone the AWID Forum due to current uncertainty around the Zika virus situation in Brazil. Learn more on it.
Read more“Amazone” – YZ’s Dahomean Female Warriors
YZ is an Anglo-Guadeloupean artist engaged in a search of Guadeloupean and African diasporic roots have taken her to Senegal. This path led her to Senegal where she currently lives and work. In her latest project, YZ pays tribute to West African women warriors who fought invaders and persecutors in the 19th century. The images of […]
Read moreThe many places of prostitution
In late November, 2015, the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IFCS/UFRJ) hosted a one week course called “A particular revolution: the Brazilian prostitute movement“. The course examined the roots, history, contexts and connections of the prostitutes’ movement since its founding in the 1970s. The Prostitution Policy […]
Read moreWomen’s bodies in Cheryl Donegan’s performative art
Cheryl Donegan is a prolific feminist performer and visual artist, whose work is currently being exposed at the New Museum in New York . Donegan’s art is provocative, ironic and, quite often, politically incorrect. This is illustrated by her 1993 famous Kiss My Royal Irish Ass (K.M.R.I.A.)” performance now shown at the New Museum. Andrea […]
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