This article is one of the chapters of the book “This is War”, written by the Polish feminist journalist Klementyna Suchanova. We dearly thanks her for sharing it with SPW [...]Read more
By Jamil Chade Dear young girl, While your story was the subject of a dramatic debate in Brazil, I tell you that in a room here at the headquarters of [...]Read more
By Manuela Lavinas Picq. This law is a victory for regulating the right to abortion due to rape, even allowing survivors to avoid police procedures, but advocates of decriminalization contested [...]Read more
by Richard Parker Article originally published at Radis The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us many lessons in the domain of public health. One of the most [...]Read more
In this article, we present an analysis of narratives mobilised by extreme right-wing leader Jair Bolsonaro and his supporters in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, from March to [...]Read more
In September 2021, the Chinese government releases the new policy guideline on women, namely “Program for Women and Development (2021-2030)”. In the area of “Women and Health”, it states to [...]Read more
In 2010, Sonia Corrêa wrote on how the concept of “empowerment” is not reduced to a binary between men and women, where men have all the power and women [...]Read more
In early 2021, a group of seven Brazilian CSOs and an academic center have positively responded to the call for submission made by the Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and [...]Read more
In September, Pope Francis visited Hungary and Slovakia, and in the latter country, in a conversation with a group of Jesuits, he repeated recommendations on the pastoral welcome of homosexuals [...]Read more
In the last Special Issue of last year we have done a brief assessment of Vatican politics. Concomitantly, we published an article by the Italian political scientist Massimo Prearo on [...]Read more
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the face of the world as we knew it. The lives of whole societies were put on hold, almost all works halted in order to [...]Read more
Pedro Castillo Terrones is 51 years old and is a primary school teacher, farmer, and militia member. He studied education and obtained a master's degree in Educational Psychology from the [...]Read more
by Thais Rodrigues and Edson Sardinha* Brazilian conservative and extreme -right parlimentarians are planing to take advantage of the new presidency of the House, MP Arthur Lira (from the Partido [...]Read more
With the contribution and/or endorsement of 100 academics from universities such as Harvard, Brown and Columbia, and of organizations such as Greenpeace USA, Amazon Watch, Center for Economic and Policy [...]Read more