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.
Haiti: Legal abortion is proposed in the Penal Code reform
During a restitution workshop of the draft of the new Code of Criminal Procedure which will replace the Code of Criminal Procedure, from 1835, which will allow Haiti, according to members of the Presidential Commission for its implementation, to reach the level of requirements and unavoidable challenges that characterize our society, once the vote by […]
Read moreStrasbourg Court: family reunification rights also count for same-sex couples
Yesterday, the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that refusing same-sex couples residence permits with the purpose of family reunification on the basis of their sexual orientation is discriminatory. The case was brought to the European Court after Ms Pajić, a woman from Bosnia-Herzegovina, was refused a Croatian residence permit that she requested […]
Read morePortugal Lawmakers Overturn Veto on Gay Rights, Abortion Law
Same-sex couples will soon be able to adopt children in Portugal after lawmakers voted to overturn a presidential veto, with parliament also removing some abortion restrictions Wednesday.
Read moreSex work and empowerment
Writing for the first time about being a sex worker, the author says the industry has taught her feminism and empowerment.
Read moreChilean officials: Conversion therapy is a ‘grave threat’
Chilean health officials on Thursday for the first time expressed their opposition to so-called conversion therapy. Agence France-Presse reported the Chilean Ministry of Health made the statement to the Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation, an LGBT advocacy group in the South American country.
Read moreLohana Berkins – Travesti Rage Always!
Argentinean trans* activist, Lohana Berkins, died in Buenos Aires on February 5, 2016. AWID joins the voices and hearts remembering Lohana, a trans* activist who, along with others, created Asociación de Lucha por la Identidad Travesti y Transexual [ALITT, Association to Fight for Travesti and Transsexual Identity] in 1994. In 2008, she created and led “Nadia Echazú”, a textile cooperative, which is also a workshop-school […]
Read moreRemembering Lohana Berkins: Activist, Leader and Proud Transvesti
The LGBTQ community in Argentina, and the region at large continues to mourn the loss of one of its most vocal and compassionate leaders. Lohana Berkins, founding president of The Association for the Fight for Travesti and Transexual Identity (ALITT) passed away last week after a long period of hospitalization.
Read moreMourning Lohana Berkins
On February 5th, the Argentinean trans leadership Lohana Berkins has departed. Lohana was recognized worldwide as a champion of trans rights as well as a an admirable person whose life was imprinted by great energy, large solidarity and lots of humor. SPW has deeply mourned Lohana departure and share the various tributes to honor her […]
Read moreLohana Berkins: after her death, she left us a legacy of trans and feminist struggle
It dawns. She leaves behind a dominant world angered by her smile, an enemy world that is not ours, a passage from silence to speech; lives crossed, names and identities that no longer pay with their bodies, under a sky that heals as it challenges us. It is dawning in tears and, accompanied, Lohana Berkins dies in Buenos Aires.
Read moreLesbian, Bisexual and Queer Women Speak Out in Kenya
Laughter, solidarity, and conviviality were in the air at a quietly remarkable event in a Nairobi hotel on February 12. Yet the subject matter discussed at the event was anything but light: depression and suicide, public stripping and rape. The Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya (GALCK) was presenting its new report, “Research on the Lived Realities of Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Women in Kenya.”
Read moreVictory in Tunisia: Activist group Shams wins in court
Shams, the Tunisian group pushing for the decriminalization of homosexuality, has won its legal challenge against a government order that it suspend operations. “Shams can resume normal activities, thanks to the decision of the court,” the organization announced on Facebook today. The trial dealt with a legal notification Shams received Jan. 4, ordering the suspension […]
Read moreVisible and Invisible Women: ‘Pairing Picasso’ at the MFA
Sleeping Nude (Marie-Thérèse Walter), 1932, Pablo Picasso, private collection. The woman’s body is the unspoken subject of a remarkable new exhibit at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. By Eve L. Ewing published by The Nation on February 16th, 2016 Pablo Picasso, like William Shakespeare or Ludwig van Beethoven, occupies that rare echelon of cultural ubiquity […]
Read moreConfronting a new epidemic: consequences of the Zika virus for public health and reproductive rights
WHO predicts up to four million cases of the mosquito-borne Zika infection just this year. In the past few weeks, there has been a storm of news articles and statements in the world press about the Zika virus. Among those written by abortion rights activists are calls for governments with restrictive abortion laws to legalise […]
Read morePope and Patriarch Misrepresent the True Meaning of Secularism and Seek to Impose their Beliefs on Others
Catholics for Choice On his way to Mexico, Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic church, met with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill for the first time since the schism of the two religions in the 11th century. They signed an interreligious joint declaration that was supposed to solidify their shared Christian values, but instead the […]
Read moreSouth Dakota Nears Dangerous Precedent
South Dakota has moved one step closer to becoming the first US state to bar transgender youth from the bathrooms where they are safe and comfortable.
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