
Ukraine war: women and LGBTQI right’s situation: compilation (English and Portuguese)
English The situation of Ukrainian trans people during the war – Insight ‘Lawful transphobia’ stopping Ukraine’s trans community from fleeing – Euronews ‘Danger everywhere’: War

Anti-abortion drive in US: compilation
Anti-abortion trend: macro and political analysis If Roe v. Wade Is Overturned, What’s Next? – New Yorker 2022 State Legislative Sessions: Abortion Bans and Restrictions

Russia’s Putin: roots, tools, ideological and political influence worldwide – English and Portuguese compilation
English Putin’s ‘macho doctrine’: Implications for Ukraine – AlJazeera How Putin Converted Russia into a ‘World Male Power’ and Inspired Leaders Like Trump and Bolsonaro

Colombia Supreme Court’s decision on abortion: compilation on the February 2022 rulling
Landmark Decision on Colombia Abortion Rights – Human Rights Watch Statements from the Center for Reproductive Rights on the Constitutional Court Decision Decriminalizing Abortion in

The clashes triggered by anti-gender feminist strands
Since 2020, intense controversies against “gender” and trans rights have been unfolding that are mobilized by “gender-critical” feminist strands. As mentioned in previous issues, these
Politics meets biopolitics in the Brazilian catastrophe
Since our first special, we have read the pandemic through the lenses of biopolitics, as to analyze how its management has activated and even updated

Research: Politics of fear in Brazil: Far-right conspiracy theories on COVID-19
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
Putin’s Anti-Gay War on Ukraine
By Emil Edenborg In Vladimir Putin’s speech on February 24, announcing what would be a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine (in his official Orwellian euphemism, a “special
Sexuality, Gender and Empowerment – by Sonia Corrêa
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

Anti-gender politics and policies in Brazil: Submitted to the Mandate of the United Nations Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
In order to more fully understand the political and policy atmosphere in relation to gender, sexuality and human rights in Brazil it is necessary to