
The Sexual Politics landscape in August 2015 and early September
SPW has the great pleasure to announce the publication of Working Paper nº 11 Emerging Powers, Sexuality and Human Rights: Fumbling around the elephant. Authored
Struggling for legal abortion in Brazil: The Congress frontline
Image: Barbara Kruger By Sonia Corrêa[1] As previously reported by SPW (here and here), for some time now, growing obstacles have been impairing any movement
Working Paper No. 11 – Emerging Powers, Sexuality and Human Rights: Fumbling around the elephant, by Sonia Corrêa and akshay khanna
In 2013, in collaboration with partners, SPW began a new line of work that examines the intersections between geopolitical trends — coalescing around the “emergence”

Pope Francis’ decision to forgive women who have abortion is criticized by reproductive rights advocates
Pope Francis once more gained global visibility by allowing priests to forgive women who have had an abortion. His speech — delivered on September first

The sexual politics landscape in July 2015
In July the hottest topic to be reported on is, undoubtedly, the global controversy that emerged when Amnesty International made public a draft policy defining

Loss and gain in recent UN debates on ‘the family’
Written by Fábio Grotz (in collaboration with Sonia Corrêa) Since the heyday of preparation for the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD, Cairo, 1994),

Sex work and human rights: Under the shadows of (de) regulation
Michelle Agnoletti [1] In July 2015 a heated controversy around sex work and human rights erupted globally. A campaign was launched by international organizations that

UN Committee on Human Rights discusses the right to life
Sonia Corrêa The UN Committee on Human Rights is developing a new General Comment on Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political

The Belize Pride Event: the overlapping of LGBT tourism and sexual politics
Gay and lesbian tourism companies have, in the past several years, taken a turn for the calculative. More and more, we are seeing rankings like Spartacus International Gay Guide’s “Gay Travel Index” which purport to determine which countries are the friendliest for gay and lesbian tourists, and which are not.

The challenges of a “progressive” Pope
by Juan Marco Vaggione Since his inauguration as the new pontiff, Bergoglio has generated new complexities for those of us who think that it is

