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.
Brazil is accused at the UN of violations of the right to legal abortion
Civil society organisations have appealed to the United Nations, asking international bodies to put pressure on the Brazilian authorities to comply with the laws that guarantee the right to abortion in specific cases. In a statement on Friday, the organisations Conectas, Feminist Collective Sexuality & Health (Coletivo Feminista Sexualidade e Saúde), Anis, Catholics for the Right to Decide (Católicas pelo Direito de Decidir), Medical Network for the Right to Decide (Rede Médica pelo Direito de Decidir), Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW/ABIA), Not Arrested Nor Dead (Nem Presa Nem Morta), Cladem Brasil and Ipas showed “concern about the violations of the right to legal abortion in Brazil”.
Read moreUS antitrans drive in 2024: compilation
Hate Crimes Against Queer and Trans Students Quadrupled in States With Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws – Them A Terrifying 300 Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills Have Already Been Introduced in 2024 – Them Mapping Attacks on LGBTQ Rights in U.S. State Legislatures in 2024 – ACLU Bills Introduced in West Virginia Would Categorize Trans People as “Obscene Matter” – Them […]
Read moreSenegal: postponed election, democracy under threat and outcomes – compilation
Senegal elections: President-elect Bassirou Diomaye Faye to lead with ‘humility’ – BBC Senegal election: Voters choose new president after political crisis – BBC Election Delay in Senegal Puts Rights at Risk – Human Rights Watch Senegal parliament delays election to December 15 after chaotic vote – Al Jazeera Senegal parliament to debate extending president’s mandate […]
Read moreFeminist solidarity with Nicaragua.
We, Latin American and Caribbean feminists gathered at the 15th EFLAC, in El Salvador, reaffirm our solidarity with our Nicaraguan comrades who, for the last 16 years have resisted the authoritarianism imposed by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. In the course of the last six years, this dictatorship disguised as leftist has […]
Read more“Dr Frankenstein’s Hydra: Contours, meanings and effects of anti- gender politics”
This text is a chapter authored by Sonia Corrêa, David Paternotte, Claire House and published in Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Rights. Download here
Read moreArticle “The double-helix entanglements of transnational advocacy: Moral conservative resistance to LGBTI rights”
Published at Review of International Studies (RIS) Download it here.
Read moreSpain’s new government: compilation
At highly charged session, Spain’s PM justifies amnesty as only way to stop the far right – El País Spain: The investiture of the amnesty – El País Spain’s socialists reach controversial deal with Catalan separatists for government backing – Euronews Why Spain’s acting leader is offering a politically explosive amnesty for Catalan separatists – […]
Read moreNiger coup: compilation
Niger coup: What is Russia’s role? – DW Russia uses social media channels to exploit Niger coup – The Guardian Prigozhin celebrates Niger coup, says his Wagner group can help – CNN Soldiers in Niger claim president is ousted in coup – Washington Post Soldiers in Niger claim to have overthrown President Mohamed Bazoum – […]
Read moreMilei’s victory in Argentina: news and analysis (compilation)
Run-off The Free-Market Fundamentalism of Argentina’s Javier Milei – New Yorker Why these Argentines voted for Javier Milei – BBC Argentina’s new leader is a snake-oil salesman with extreme views on abortion, gay rights and more. I fear for my country – The Guardian ‘From horrible to merely bad’: will Javier Milei take his chainsaw […]
Read moreSexual Politics from July to November 2023
>> Download and read in PDF << First Words This edition of the SPW newsletter covers the main events in sexual politics since July, roughly the second half of 2023. As we have pointed out in previous editions, especially since the pandemic, the sexual politics of the 21st century is indelibly intertwined with the de-democratizing […]
Read moreFrom My Body to Yours, and Gaza to the World – Zillah Eisenstein
A Meditation on Death, Killing, and Possibility I knew my body was healing from the surgery when I found myself ready to engage with the world and posted on Facebook: I am always anti-zionist. And never an antisemite. And always an anti-racist feminist against misogynist wars. And then a few days later I posted: Zionist […]
Read moreIn conversation with Ros Petchesky, a feminist, Jewish voice for peace
by Françoise Girard On November 13, 2023, in New York City, I had the privilege of interviewing the brilliant Rosalind P. Petchesky, professor emerita of political science at Hunter College and renowned and beloved feminist activist and thinker. Ros and I first met in 1999 at the UN in New York City, during diplomatic negotiations […]
Read morePolish Election: democratic opposition’s victory – compilation (English and Portuguese)
English Momentous Shift Looms for Poland as Governing Party Looks Set to Be Ousted – NY Times ‘Emotional and proud’: Voters on Poland’s landmark election results – The Guardian As Europe applauds Poland’s election results, civil rights groups prepare to fight – NPR Poland Shows That Autocracy Is Not Inevitable – The Atlantic How Poland’s […]
Read moreSonia Corrêa interview at SDGSummit2030: September 2023
Feminist Voices at #SDGSummit2030 on “Speak out against anti-gender and anti-rights narratives and actions to achieve the 2030 Agenda” with Sonia Correa, Co-Coordinator, Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW), Brazil. Hosted by Dr. Racheal Misan-Ruppee. Watch below:
Read moreRita and Tina as Parts of Me
By Sonia Corrêa I took many meanders before writing this brief note about the enchantment – as the Brazilian writer Guimarães Rosa described death – of the singers Rita Lee and Tina Turner. I am not writing about them, these admirable artists, generous persons, phoenix women who have remade their lives many times as […]
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