Advances and setbacks in sexual and reproductive right’s landscape in 2013
During the year of 2013, sexual and reproductive rights were threatened by state decisions in various places around the world. At the year’s end, three
Health; Human Rights Syllabi Database
The Program on Global Health & Human Rights, from Institute for Global Health at the University of Southern California, has launched the Health and Human
Groups Sue Government of El Salvador Over Treatment of Beatriz, Criminalization of Abortion
Citizen Group for the Decriminalization of Abortion in El Salvador, the Feminist Collective for Local Development, CEJIL (Center for Justice and International Law) and Ipas
Two Women, Different Outcomes: How U.S. Foreign Assistance Policy Harms Women
Read article “Two Women, Different Outcomes: How U.S. Foreign Assistance Policy Harms Women”, by Elizabeth Maguire in “RH Reality Check”, in which the author tells
Ecuador “Cure” Clinic Raided: 17 Rescued, Torture Claims Emerge
Equador faces a double pattern in adressing reproductive and sexual rights: while Presidente Rafael Corrêa makes pression against abortion legalization, his Public Health Ministry leads
Anatomy of the War on Women
Read RH Reality Check’s article “Anatomy of the War on Women: How the Koch Brothers Are Funding the Anti-Choice Agenda”, where the author criticizes that
Global and regional issues highlighted by SPW on October
In October 2013 our main themes were the following: On October 10, activist Gabriela Leite, who devoted her life to fight for the rights of
Rights of Fetus Versus Mother
Article on NY Times describes the case of a american young woman, taked in handcuffs to a cell because of the allegation that she, once
African Regional Conference on Population and Development: final document
African Regional Conference on Population and Development, based at Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia (3 and 4 October 2013), has resulted on a final document called “Africa Regional
Scott Long: Cultural Cold Wars: Where “traditional values” came from
Cultural Cold Wars: Where “traditional values” came from See Scott Long’s HQ on the place of sexual rights in what he calls “Cultural Cold Wars”.