IACHR’s Report “Violence Against LGBTI Persons in the Americas”
The IACHR just launched the English version of the report “Violence Against LGBTI Persons”. In this Report, the Commission focuses on violence against LGBT persons as contextualized social violence in which the perpetrators’ motivation needs to be understood as complex and multi-faceted, and not only as a individual-based act. In this regard, the IACHR understands […]
Read moreThe Moral Case for Abortion
This book sets out the ethical arguments for a woman’s right to choose. Drawing on the traditions of sociological thinking and moral philosophy, it maintains that there is a strong moral case for recognizing autonomy in personal decision-making about reproductive intentions. More than this, it argues that to prevent a woman from making her own choice to continue or end her pregnancy is to undermine the essence of her humanity.
Read moreWhy (chemical) castration will not end gender and sexuality based violence in Indonesia
While the international media were busy highlighting the Stanford rape and Brazil gang-rape cases, another gang-rape, followed by murder, of a 14 year-old girl named Yuyun happened in Indonesia. It was an atrocity as severe, despite the lack of international coverage.
Read moreSouth Africa: Police Abuse of Sex Workers
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The Women’s Legal Centre has published their report on Police Abuse of Sex Workers in South Africa. Their report shows that 414 sex workers reported various types of violence perpetrated by police between 2011 and 2015. Of those, 13 were sexually assaulted, 71 were physically assaulted, 152 were verbally assaulted, 192 were harassed, and 254 experienced some other form of abuse.
Read moreRhetoric meets reality: ending HIV and AIDS
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Ending AIDS by 2030 is redundant rhetoric. It is meaningless without investment in community participation. Code red for action.
Read moredifferences’ new issue: Transatlantic Gender Crossings
The most recent issue of differences, “Transatlantic Gender Crossings,” edited by Anne Emmanuelle Berger and Éric Fassin, addresses French and US feminism, gender, and queer theory. As much as French feminism influenced the establishment of women’s studies in U.S. universities, so has U.S. gender and queer theory marked the French intellectual and academic landscape. For […]
Read moreIt’s All In Your Head: The Dangers of Disbelieving Female Pain
by Caroline Reilly Published on July 21, 2016 at 11:21am We explored this topic—in part—because a Bitch reader asked us to look into it. Got a question about feminism and pop culture that you want answered, too? Tell us! As I was rolled out of surgery, I looked up at the blurry figure pushing my […]
Read moreReport: The Growing Movement Advancing the Human Rights of Intersex People
The Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice has launched the report We Are Real: The Growing Movement Advancing the Human Rights of Intersex People. Available in English, Spanish, Russian, and forthcoming in Chinese, We Are Real seeks to share and promote relevant knowledge and understanding of intersex issues and activism to people across the world––particularly funders and other actors […]
Read moreSexual politics in July 2016
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Between July 12th and 15th, right before the Durban International AIDS Conference, SPW organized a seminar in Umhlanga, the Northern District of the City. Thirty four researchers and activists from the Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe discussed key trends in sexual politics at regional and country levels as well as in specific domains […]
Read moreCrosstalk: HIV and linking across areas of criminalisation
In a moment of global attacks on civil society, an intersectional approach linking issues across HIV, sexuality, adult consensual sex and bodily integrity is critical. Now, more than ever. Speaking Wall, World AIDS Conference, Durban 2016. Photo: Alice Welbourn. Every international AIDS conference seems to have a theme or two that picks up energy as […]
Read moreAttack on Trans and Prostitutes
The on-going political conservative trends that has brought us the Brazilian “soft coup”, BREXIT and the candidacy of Donald Trump has also resulted in an increase in reactionary politics across the political spectrum, even among “radicals” and “progressives”. In Brazil, this has been recently manifest in attacks against
Read moreUsing media and legal services for the defense of LGBT rights in Mexico
Presentation by Alejandro Brito from Letra S (México) at the pre IAC seminar organized by Ford Foundation Seminar in Durban on Challenging Criminalization Globally. The intervention analyzes how prejudice against people’s sexual orientation can influence judicial inquiries and rulings made by judges in cases of homicide against homosexuals, and lead to the criminalization of the victims’ […]
Read moreThe problem is ‘criminal law’
by Sonia Corrêa “The discourses that legitimize punitive power, as established in the middle Ages, are in full force. This is when criminology was born as an autonomous field of knowledge. This structure remains practically unchanged. It reappears whenever punitive power aims at getting rid of limits” (Raul Eugenio Zaffaroni, 2011) Five years ago, the […]
Read moreSexual rights, gender, health and rights of defenders at the United Nations HRC 2016
Gabriel Hoosain Khan, an LGBT activist from South Africa muses about the distance of UN bodies in Geneva from the realities of the world that we (or at least some of us) live in or know about. He says – “In Geneva it might be possible
Read moreBody Against Concept
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by Maria Eugenia Matricardi A white butterfly flies over the humid foam that floats next to the waterfall. A mere drop could exterminate it or destroy its fragile silk wings. It risks itself as if enchanted, as carbonized insects risk themselves flying around the incantation of light emanating from a bulb. This was the image […]
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