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 Regional Conference on Population and Development: final document
African Regional Conference on Population and Development, based at Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia (3 and 4 October 2013), has resulted on a final document called “Africa Regional Report”, which brings main findings and recommendations. The text is too generic and evasive on issues like abortion and maternal mortality, as well as other topics regarding women sexual and […]
Read moreEcuador’s Left punishes women rights
By Manuela L. Picq* A debate on abortion suspended the voting on the new penal code in the Ecuadorian Congress this week. Congresswoman Soledad Buendía, from President Correa’s party Alianza PAIS, made a forceful move demanding that Article 149 of the Constitution legalizes abortion in cases of rape. Her motion was supported by congresswomen María […]
Read moreBarriers to Non-Monosexual Identities
“If a person does not fit in a neatly packaged place within the straight-gay binary, some people won’t believe them, a fact that led me to wonder whether I was merely identifying as bisexual, and later queer, to hang on to a last shred of heterosexuality”. Read Huffington Post’s article about the barriers that surround […]
Read moreThe Constitutional Court of South Africa decided that two sections of the Criminal Law Amendment Act are unconstitutional
The Constitutional Court of South Africa decided that two sections of the Criminal Law Amendment Act are unconstitutional. The measeures were intended to criminalise consensual sexual conduct between children. Read more about it.
Read moreFourth anniversary of Keith Goddard’s passing
Today marks the fourth anniversary of Keith Goddard’s passing and again we reflect and pay tribute to a man whose career followed a number of diverse and often simultaneous paths including the teaching of music, composing music, cultural activism and the promotion of Zimbabwean musical culture through the work of KUNZWANA Trust which he established […]
Read moreGulf states to tighten gender tests for expat workers
The Kuwait Ministry of Health has proposed tightening genetic tests for immigrant workers in order to prevent transgender migrants from entering the GCC job market. Click here to read more.
Read moreMedical tests that will be conducted by Gulf states to stop homosexual to enter their countries
Read The Independen’s news about medical tests that will be conducted by Gulf states to stop homosexual to enter their countries. Click here.
Read moreSTOP THE GENOCIDE AGAINST TRANS WOMEN! STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST TRANS PEOPLE!
Organizations, associations and activists defending the human and civil law of trans people denounce generalized extreme violence and murders and impunity that trans people suffer by the virtue of being transgender around the world, especially at Latin America. Click here.
Read moreTransgender ID a hostile affair
Read article about the situation of trans people in South Africa and the obstacles that they face regarding the identification country system. Here.
Read more“The End(s) of Activism? Sexual Rights and the Brazilian Workers Party”
Read the article, by SPW partner Raphael de la Dehesa, in which he discuss brazilian sexual and reprodutive rights landscape. Although being hailed as a global leader on these issues, national context draws another image. Click here to read it.
Read more2013 Nuremberg International Human Rights Award to Kasha Nabagesera
At the award ceremony in Nuremberg Opera House on 29 September, 2013 Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera, LGBTI activist from Uganda, received the award from Lord Mayor Dr. Ulrich Maly and Dani Karavan. Click here And here
Read more6th Asia Pacific Population Conference
The 6th Asia Pacific Population Conference (APPC) took place at the end of September in Bangkok. The final document brings recommendations on gender equality and sexual and reproductive rights, including access to contraceptive, reduction of maternal mortality and access to safe abortion (at this point, the document points that such access must be avaialable under […]
Read moreHuman Rights Council 24th session report
Read the report of the 24th session of the Human Rights Council which concluded last week. Among the issues discussed, gender integration was one of them. Click here.
Read moreDAWN’s new website
DAWN’s new website is now accessible. It brings better search engine and a new media section. Click here to access it.
Read more“Russia needs its own Stonewall, not Western sanctions”, by LGBT activist Igor Yashin
Read LGBT activist Igor Yashin’s article (“Russia needs its own Stonewall, not Western sanctions”) about the ways to confront the homophobia that imperils minorities in Russia. Click here
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