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.
Planned Parenthood cleared of accusations of selling human tissue
Planned Parenthood has been cleared of accusations of selling human tissue, after covert videos released last year prompted the investigation. A Houston grand jury instead indicted the leader of an anti-abortion group that recorded the videos of the organization’s employees.
Read moreAwid jobs and opportunities
AWID is an international, feminist, membership organisation committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women’s human rights.
Read moreThe Voice of Libyan Women: A progressive voice amid violence and insecurity
Women were at the forefront of the pro-democracy protests in Libya in 2011, which, after escalating into civil war, culminated in the ousting of dictator Muammar Gaddafi. But in the years that have followed, as state institutions have crumbled and insecurity prevails, women have struggled to have their voices heard.
Read moreCall for Applications – International Women’s Human Rights Education Institute & CEDAW for Change Institute
Are you a women’s human rights defender? Do you want to increase your understanding of women’s human rights, and learn how to use the UN Human Rights system and CEDAW, the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, to support your activism? Join other international activists, scholars, community workers, NGO […]
Read moreFirst LGBT member of Guatemala Congress takes office
The first openly LGBT person elected to Guatemala’s Congress took office last week. Sandra Morán, a lesbian woman who is a member of Convergencia, a left-leaning political movement that advocates on behalf of indigenous Guatemalans and other underrepresented groups in the Central American country, was sworn in on Jan. 14.
Read moreEquality to brutality: global trends in LGBT rights
Horrifying images posted on social media for all the world to see show men accused of homosexuality thrown off high buildings, stoned to death, or shot in the head by extremist groups, including the Islamic State (known as ISIS) in Iraq, Syria and Libya.
Read moreChilean Ministry of Health issues instructions stopping “normalising” interventions on intersex children
The Chilean Ministry of Health has issued instructions to its national health sector to stop “normalising” medical interventions on intersex infants and children. This guidance is a global first: the first time that a health ministry has shown leadership in taking this step without legislation or legal action.
Read morePeru compensates woman in historic UN Human Rights abortion case
In 2001, a 17-year-old Peruvian girl, named K.L., was 14 weeks pregnant when doctors at the public hospital in Lima diagnosed the foetus with anencephaly. Anencephaly is a fatal birth defect, where the foetus lacks most or all of the forebrain. Doctors told her that continuing the pregnancy would put her life and health at […]
Read moreCampaigning for the right to safe abortion – Highlights from 2015
International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion’s roundup from 2015.
Read moreSlovenian voters reject same-sex marriage law
Slovenian voters on Sunday rejected a law that extended marriage rights to same-sex couples.The Associated Press reported that preliminary results indicate that voters by a 63-37 percent margin rejected the statute. “It’s Time for Yes” (Čas je Za in Slovenian), the campaign that that backed the marriage law, thanked its supporters on its Twitter page […]
Read morePalestine’s Abortion Problem
Around 40 percent of women in the West Bank have had abortions, though the procedure remains illegal in Palestine. So guess where they go.
Read moreFeminist Studies’s call for paper: Decolonial and Postcolonial Approaches: A Conversation
Deadline: March 1, 2016 Decolonial and postcolonial approaches have long informed and animated feminist scholarship and activism, but often not at once nor in the same spaces. They each bear the markings of the regional and historical affiliations of their respective scholars. The decolonial turn is often (though sometimes inaccurately) associated with indigenous scholars and […]
Read moreWhy Do Men Kill Trans Women? Gender Theorist Judith Butler Explains
Butler’s insight into the lives and deaths of transgender women in 2015 penetrates beyond the surface details of their deaths. Her perspective illustrates a startling reality about the real cause of violence against trans women, and the fatal importance of an intersectional approach to the liberation of transgender people.
Read more13th AWID International Forum: Feminist Futures: Building Collective Power for Rights and Justice
The 13th AWID International Forum (Bahia, Brazil) will be a historic global gathering of women’s rights and social justice activists and movements. Click here for registration.
Read morePuerto Rico court issues historic adoption ruling
A Puerto Rico court on Wednesday ruled for the first time that a same-sex couple can legally adopt a child in the U.S. commonwealth.The Associated Press reported the judge issued the ruling in the case of a woman who had been trying to adopt a girl that her partner had through artificial insemination. The woman […]
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