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A global research effort is always a lengthy and challenging endeavor. The project leading to the e-book SexPolitics - Reports from the Front Lines is not an exception. Originally named as the Sexuality Policy Monitoring Project it has started with a meeting in New York (March 2004) when a group of researchers and activists were invited by Sexuality Policy Watch to discuss the paper prepared by Françoise Girard  “Global Implications of U.S. Domestic and International Policies on Sexuality"and develop a preliminary frame for a global research project to document the dynamics of  sexual politic in various countries in relation to a variety of issues: abortion, HIV, sexual diversity. After this first meeting  the SPW steering committee made a decision about countries and institutions that would be examined. Individual researchers or research teams were also defined and beetween 2004 and 2006 three collaborative meetings took place involving the country/institution teams and SPW members.

In this process the group discussed the theoretical framework for the study, set a timeline for the construction of the case studies, developed abstracts for each of the country and institutional case studies, and debated and formulated the orientation of the project.   Following a lengthy process of review and discussion, the group arrived at a common framework that was sufficiently broad to have relevance across all sites, yet specific enough to provide concrete guidelines for researchers in formulating their working outline, research design and final case analysis. The framework focused on the analysis of discourse, processes (negotiation and contestation) and agents, and used the themes of cultural and historical contexts, tensions between norms and realities, alternative discourses and resistances, as well as future and strategy recommendations. A mentoring   system was established that paired research teams with a mentor from or affiliated with SPW.  In the last meeting, in April 2006, preliminary findings and drafts were revised and after that final drafts were once again revised by mentors as well as by external reviewers.   

The reflections and debates of the Toronto workshop greatly contributed to the construction of the first chapter of the book "Contested Bodies: The Local and Global Politics of Sex and Reproduction". At the AIDS Conference itself, three cases studies - Peru, Vietnam and United Nations - were presented in a panel on HIV -AIDS and Sexuality.

A short video documenting SPW activities in Toronto  can  be seen in this link.


Participants at the New York Meeting (March 2004)

Invited partners

Christine Adebajo
Independent researcher
Shomolu, Nigeria

Sola Akinrinade
Faculty of Arts Obafemi Awolowo
University
Ile – Ife, Nigeria

Ana Amuchástegui
UAM
Mexico City, Mexico

Judith D. Auerbach
Director
American Foundation for AIDS Research
Washington, USA

Carmen Barroso
Regional Director
International Planned Parenthood Federation
Western Hemisphere Region
New York, USA

Ronald Bayer
Department of Sociomedical Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
New York, USA

Elza Berquó
CEBRAP
São Paulo, Brazil

Carlos F. Cáceres
Facultad de Salud Pública y Administración
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Lima, Peru

Kenneth Rochel de Camargo, Jr.
Instituto de Medicina Social, UERJ
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Radhika Chandiramani
Director
Asia Sexuality Resource Center
Delhi, India

Waranuch Chinvarasopak
PATH
Bangkok, Thailand

Rhonda Copelon
International Women's Human Rights Law Clinic
City University of New York
School of Law
New York, USA

Clifton Cortez, Jr.
USAID
Washington, USA

Sarah Costa
Ford Foundation
New York, USA

Joanne Csete
Human Rights Watch
New York, USA

Marcos Cueto
Woodrow Wilson Center
Washington, USA

Anke A. Ehrhardt
Director
HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies
NY State Psychiatric Institute
New York, USA

Beth Ann Filiano
Department of Sociomedical Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
New York, USA

Susana T. Fried
Program Director for the International
Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
New York, USA

Jonathan Garcia
Department of Sociomedical Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
New York, USA

Le Minh Giang
Department of Sociomedical Sciences
The Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
New York, USA

Françoise Girard
Eve & The Snake
*gender equality and sexual rights*
New York, USA

Maria Luiza Heilborn
Instituto de Medicina Social/UERJ
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Judith Helzner
Director, Population & Reproductive Health Area
John D and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Gilbert Herdt
Director of the Human Sexuality Studies Program
Professor of Sexuality Studies and Anthropology
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, USA

Claudia Hinojosa
Independent Consultant
Mexico City, Mexico

Pinar Ilkkaracan
Women for Women's Human Rights - NEW WAYS
Istanbul, Turkey

Jodi L. Jacobson
Executive Director, Center for Health and Gender Equity
Washington DC, USA

Ratna Kapur
Director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Research
New Delhi, India

Barbara Klugman
Ford Foundation
New York, USA

Scott Long
LGBT Rights Project
Human Rights Watch
New York, USA

Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch
Open Society Institute
New York, USA

Ellen Marshall
Good Work Group
Boulder, USA

Alice M. Miller
Department of Population and Family Health
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
New York, USA

Constance A. Nathanson
Department of Sociomedical Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
New York, USA

Wanda Nowicka
President
Federation for Women and Family Planning
Warsaw, Poland

Nancy Palomino
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Lima, Peru

Mario Pecheny
Visiting Professor
School of International & Public Affairs
Columbia University
New York, USA

Carolina S. Ruiz-Austria
Director Womenlead Foundation, Inc.
Manila, Philippines

Jyoti Sanghera
Adviser on Trafficking
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Geneva, Switzerland

Helen Schneider
Independent researcher
Johannesburg, South Africa

Patricia Siplon
Saint Michael's College
Colchester, USA

Ivonne Szasz
Colegio de Mexico
DF, Mexico

Chris Thrasher
Morehouse School of Medicine
National Center for Primary Care
Atlanta, USA

Carole Vance
Department of Sociomedical Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
New York, USA

Ernesto Vasquez
Department of Sociomedical Sciences
Mailmain School of Public Health
Columbia University
New York, USA

Lalaine P. Viado
Independent Consultant
Quezon City, Philippines

Victoria Ward
IPPF/WHR
New York, USA

Kate Wood
Thomas Coram Research Unit
London, UK

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SPW members and secretariat team

Vagner de Almeida
Department of Sociomedical Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
New York, USA

Gloria Careaga
ILGA –UNAM
Mexico City, Mexico

Radhika Chandiramani
Director
Asia Sexuality Resource Center
New Delhi, India

Sonia Corrêa
Co –Coordinator
Sexuality Policy Watch
Research Associate at ABIA
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Adenike O. Esiet
Action Health Incorporated
Lagos, Nigeria

Gilbert Herdt
Director of the Human Sexuality Studies Program
Professor of Sexuality Studies and Anthropology
Executive Director, Institute for Sexuality, Inequality and Health at SFSU
San Francisco, USA

Mayra Pabon
Department of Sociomedical Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
New York, USA

Richard Parker
Co –coordinator of Sexuality Policy Watch
Professor and Chair
Department of Sociomedical Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
New York, USA

Rosalind Petchesky
Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies
Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
New York, USA

Ignacio Saiz
Acting Director- Policy Program
Amnesty International
London , United Kingdom

Chris Thrasher
Morehouse School of Medicine
National Center for Primary Care
Atlanta, USA

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Toronto Workshop Participants

Invited  partners

Shahira Ahmed
Program on International Health and Human Rights
Harvard School of Public Health
Cambridge, USA

Thirza Bonner
Youth Incentives,
Utrecht, Netherlands

Kate Bedford
Department of Women’s Studies
Barnard College, Columbia University

Marge Berer
Reproductive Health Matters
London, UK

Mabel Bianco
Fundacion para Estudio e Investigacion de la Mujer
Buenos Aires Argentina

Carlos Caceres
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Avenida Armendariz 445,
Lima, Peru

Kenneth Rochel de Camargo, Jr.
Instituto de Medicina Social/UERJ
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Sergio Carrara
Instituto de Medicina Social/UERJ
Rio de Janeiro

Jonathan Cohen
Open Society Institute
New York, USA

Diane di Mauro
The Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University
Department of Sociomedical Sciences,
New York, USA

Susana Fried
Independent Consultant
New York, USA

David Gere
MAKE ART/STOP AIDS
Director, UCLA Center for the Arts and Global Health
Los Angeles, USA

Françoise Girard
Open Society Institute,
New York , USA

Monica Gogna
CEDES - Centre for the Study of State
and Society,
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Jodi Jacobson
Center for Health and Gender Equity
Washington DC, USA

Samuel Kissi
Youth Coalition
Accra, Ghana

Barbara Klugman
The Ford Foundation
New York, USA

Shannon Kowalsky
Open Society,
New York, USA

Scott Long
LGBT Rights Project
Human Rights Watch
New York, USA

Katherine McDonald
Action Canada for Population and Development (ACPD)
Ottawa, Canada

Paulo Vieira de Mello
You Act, European Youth Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights,
Lisbon, Portugal

Edford Mutuma
Young African Advocate for Rights
Lusaka, Zambia

Vera Paiva
NEPAIDS
São Paulo, Brazil

Nancy Palomino
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia,
Lima Peru

Mario Pecheny
Universidad de Buenos Aires,
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Cynthia Rothschild
Center for Women Global Leadership
New Brunswick, USA Ignacio Saiz
Amnesty International
London, UK

Theo Sandfort
HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies
at Columbia University
New York, USA

Alejandra Sardá
International Lesbian and Gay Human Rights Latin America,
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Sarah Stumbard
Inter and the Center for Health and Gender Equity,
Washington, DC, USA

Veriano Terto
Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinar
de Aids/ABIA
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Adriana Vianna
Instituto de Medicina Social/UERJ
Rio de Janeiro Brasil

Kate Wood
Thomas Coram Research
Institute of Education,
London, UK

Zonnibel Woods
International Women's Health Coalition,
New York, USA

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Sexuality Policy Watch members and secretariat

Vagner de Almeida
The Mailman School of Public Health
at Columbia University
Department of Sociomedical Sciences,
New York, USA

Gloria Careaga
Universidad Autónoma de México
ILGA Latin America
Mexico City, Mexico

Sonia Corrêa
Co-coordinator
Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinar
de Aids/ABIA
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Diane di Mauro
The Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University
Department of Sociomedical Sciences
722 W. 168th St., 9th Floor
New York, USA

Adenike Esiet
Action Health Incorporated
Lagos, Nigéria

Jodi Jacobson
Center for Health and Gender Equity
Washington DC, USA

Charles Klein
Institute for Sexuality, Inequality and Health at SFSU
San Francisco, USA

Miguel Muñoz-Laboy
The Mailman School of Public Health
at Columbia University
New York, USA

Dulce Natividad
The Mailman School of Public Health
at Columbia University
New York, USA

Mayra Pabon
The Mailman School of Public Health
at Columbia University
Department of Sociomedical Sciences
New York, USA

Richard Parker
Co-coordinator
Sexuality Policy Watch
The Mailman School of Public Health
at Columbia University
New York, USA

Rosalind Petchesky
Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies
Hunter College and the West 1726
New York, USA

Ignacio Saiz
Amnesty International, International Secretariat
London, United Kingdom

Robert Sember
The Mailman School of Public Health
at Columbia University
Department of Sociomedical Sciences
New York, USA

Michael Tan
Packard Foundation
Manila, Philippines