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.
The Lancet’s Zika Virus Resource Centre
The Lancet Zika virus resource centre brings together the best evidence from across The Lancet family of journals—offered with free access—to assist researchers, policy makers, and health workers, in understanding the effects of the outbreak and how best to respond. Click here to access it.
Read more‘In Guatemala to be a feminist is not welcomed, a lesbian, even less so. I am a lesbian feminist’
Sandra Moran, the first openly gay member of Congress in Guatemala, says LGBT rights don’t define her – she is mainly known as a champion of women and indigenous people Sandra Moran made history when she took her seat in Guatemala’s Congress in January Photograph: Sandra Moran Nina Lakhani in Guatemala City Thursday 11 February […]
Read moreIs the world finally waking up to intersex rights?
A landmark directive in Chile last month said doctors should stop ‘normalisation’ surgery, but tackling the global systematic, societal and cultural abuse against intersex people is an uphill battle When a baby is born the first question is usually about its sex. But for one in 2,000 people binary notions of male and female are […]
Read moreCall for Papers RHM 48 opens March 15 – Sexuality, sexual and reproductive health in later life
With a growing number of older people in the world, it is time for Reproductive Health Matters to look more closely at the sexual and reproductive health of people in this different stage of life.
Read moreExperts urge action on LGBTI workplace discrimination in Thailand
Employment discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people is a prevalent but silent issue in Thailand, said experts at a national level meeting to discuss issues related to discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression (SOGIE) or intersex status.
Read moreGovernment Recommendations on Zika Virus Not Grounded in Reality, Say El Salvador Locals
The country’s Ministry of Health recommended last week that women should avoid becoming pregnant until 2018. But local feminist groups say this guidance doesn’t reflect the needs of Salvadoran women, especially where reproductive health is concerned.
Read moreThe Zika virus has reignited Brazil’s abortion debate
Today, Brazil’s attention is focused on a different type of birth defect: microcephaly, in which a child is born with an abnormally small skull. Microcephaly, which can severely impact a child’s development, is being linked to a massive outbreak of the Zika virus, a mosquito-borne illness first discovered in Africa in the 1940s.
Read moreThe African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights launches campaign to decriminalize abortion
On Jan. 18, the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) launched a continental campaign for the decriminalization of abortion in Africa to bring attention to unsafe abortion which significantly threatens women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Read moreReport documents anti-trans violence in Central America
A new report indicates transgender women in Central America remain particularly vulnerable to discrimination and violence.
Read moreNona Faustini: the White Shoes Project
The North American black artist Nona Faustini has recently developed a remarkable photography project. . She staged a series of nude photographs in urban locations across the Unites States where the traces of slavery are indelible. The resulting images are groundbreaking in articulating the deep intersections of race, gender, sexuality and the wide spread and […]
Read moreThe ‘Family ” goes beaching
In late 2015, a highly regressive ‘Statute on the Family ‘ was approved by a Special Committee of the Brazilian Congress. Around that same time, the art collective Corpos Informáticos circulated on the web the photographs a street performance: “I am floating”. The photos shows a “family” dressed for the beach, happily walking […]
Read moreWomen Artists: Ana Lira from Portugal
In searching for English written information on the Brazilian photographer Ana Lira, we have accidentally found the remarkable work of another artist designer whose art also turns around sexuality. Also named Ana Lira, she lives in Viana do Castelo in Portugal. Ana Lira’s work of Ana combines iconographic images of Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt’s, Art […]
Read moreNews and analysis on the Brazilian and Latin American zika virus crisis and its effects on women’s health and reproductive rights here and worldwide
The Zika Virus Could Force Women To Have Unsafe Abortions – Huffington Post El Salvador’s Advice on Zika Virus: Don’t Have Babies – New York Times Zika virus: Pregnant women advised to stay away from Rio 2016 Olympics – Independent Zika virus: Australia warns pregnant women not to travel to affected areas- The Guardian Zika […]
Read moreLGBT Backlash in Indonesia
Last week in Jakarta, I met leaders of the Support Group and Resource Center on Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Indonesia, who were brimming with confidence about their work with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.
Read moreMozambique’s Double Speak on LGBT Rights
When Mozambique’s human rights record was reviewed before the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva this week, the government’s inconsistency on homosexuality was in full view.
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