In September, Brazil is due to submit to the UN Human Rights Council the Preliminary Report on the Part-Time Period III Cycle, regarding the evaluation of the Universal Periodic Review [...]Read more
Report from Brazil to the United Nations describes a country that does not exist 213 pages. This is the extent of the report published this week by the federal government [...]Read more
On May 30, the US State Department announced the creation of the “Inalienable Rights Commission” to advise Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The body, chaired by anti-abortion activist Mary Ann [...]Read more
Leaked documents show Brazil’s Bolsonaro has grave planes for Amazon rainforest – openDemocracy The Amazon Fire Isn’t Just Climate Change—It’s Political Violence – Bitch MediaRead more
At present, 15 bills related to “gender ideology” are being processed in the Parliament. Eight of them were presented in the first half of 2019, three in 2018, two in [...]Read more
May 2018 Monthly briefing Sexual politics in May 2018 – SPW Original articles Political mythology on abortion and trans men | Blas Radi – SPW Gender Ideology: tracking its origins [...]Read more
As done in other similar occasions, such as in the 2016 Trump elections, SPW has collected and selected the largest possible number of news, opinions and analyses on the final [...]Read more
Papers and articles Just as U.S. Media Does With MLK, Brazil’s Media Is Trying to Whitewash and Exploit Marielle Franco’s Political Radicalism – The Intercept The Guardian view on the [...]Read more
English Costa Rica Election Hands Presidency to Governing Party Stalwart – The New York Times Costa Rica’s Election Day: They all thought they’d win, and so did I – The New [...]Read more
Crackdowns have been reported in Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan and, once again, in Egypt. In India, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Government presented the first version a Transgender Persons [...]Read more
In the midst of the conservative restoration that swept Brazil in 2016, the First Chamber of the Brazilian Supreme Court, where five of the eleven judges have a seat, issued [...]Read more
