TAG: Brazil
Brazil is accused at the UN of violations of the right to legal abortion
Civil society organisations have appealed to the United Nations, asking international bodies to put pressure on the Brazilian authorities to comply with the laws that guarantee the right to abortion in specific cases. In a statement on Friday, the organisations Conectas, Feminist Collective Sexuality & Health (Coletivo Feminista Sexualidade e Saúde), Anis, Catholics for the Right to Decide (Católicas pelo Direito de Decidir), Medical Network for the Right to Decide (Rede Médica pelo Direito de Decidir), Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW/ABIA), Not Arrested Nor Dead (Nem Presa Nem Morta), Cladem Brasil and Ipas showed “concern about the violations of the right to legal abortion in Brazil”.
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Sexual Politics from July to November 2023
>> Download and read in PDF << First Words This edition of the SPW newsletter covers the main events in sexual politics since July, roughly the second half of 2023. As we have pointed out in previous editions, especially since the pandemic, the sexual politics of the 21st century is indelibly intertwined with the de-democratizing […]
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Sexual Politics in 2022: Retrospective
>> Read in PDF << First words In 2022, we adjusted our perspective for monitoring and analyzing sexual politics. In the previous two years, our editorial focus had been the Covid-19 pandemic and its effects. As the dramatic and brutally lethal epidemiological scenarios have abated, we have refocused on the national and transnational dynamics of […]
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Brazil’s “Infamous Sunday” – Compilation of analysis about the January 8th attacks in Brasilia
As Brazil was stunned by January 8th storming rioters against the buildings of Federal Administration, Congress and Supreme Court, we collected analysis to better understand the roots, circumstances and outcomes of the “infamous Sunday”.
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Sexual Politics from August to November 2022
>> Download as PDF << Preface Due to its relevance in Brazil and the rest of the world, we rescheduled the publication of our newsletter to be able to include the results of the Brazilian elections that, thanks to the votes of the poorest people, women, the black population, and indigenous peoples, mean the end […]
Read moreThe girl from Santa Catarina: another brutal attack against the right to legal abortion in Brazil
The case of the 11-year-old girl raped and barred by a female judge from having a legal abortion in Santa Catarina had wide repercussions in Brazil. The girl was compelled by the magistrate responsible for her case to “bear with it a little longer”. The judge sent her to a minors´ shelter as to hinder […]
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Sexual politics in June 2022: regressions and threats to abortion and LGBTQIA+ rights
In early July, we issued the Spanish version of our sexual politics bulletin, published in Portuguese and English in early June. More complete and updated, the Spanish version covered very relevant sexual politics events not included in the previous versions. In order to also update our Portuguese and English readers, we have decided to issue […]
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Jamil Chade: Letter to an 11-year-old girl
By Jamil Chade Dear young girl, While your story was the subject of a dramatic debate in Brazil, I tell you that in a room here at the headquarters of the United Nations (UN) in Geneva, men in suits – and a few women – were negotiating the text of a resolution on your destiny. […]
Read moreSexual Politics from March to May 2022
>>> Read in PDF First Words Since April 2020, SPW newsletters have been tracking and analyzing sexual politics in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. After two years of health crisis and after brutal and repeated spikes of mortality spread over several regions and countries, the pandemic is finally ebbing thanks to the immunization achieved […]
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Sexual Politics in Times of Pandemic – 2021 Retrospective
>>> Download the PDF version here. First Thoughts The last 2020 SPW special hypothesized that during 2021, because of vaccines, Covid-19 would no longer be our main topic, but that did not prove to be the case. The pandemic followed its devastating course with the emergence of new, more aggressive variants, and the loss of […]
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Sexual Politics in Times of Pandemic: January-July 2021
First Words In the last 2020 edition of Sexual Politics in Times of Pandemic Special of 2020, we hypothesized that throughout 2021, with the arrival of vaccines, COVID-19 might no longer be our main topic. However, this has not been the case. Since then, south of the equator, infections have continued running their course and […]
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The case of the girl from Espírito Santo: Is this a new turning point in the long journey for abortion rights in Brazil?
by Sonia Corrêa Since 1940, Brazilian law has permitted abortion in cases of rape, and sexual intercourse with persons under 14 years old is automatically defined as rape. In 1999, the Brazilian Ministry of Health’s issued the Technical Protocol orienting Care for Victims of Sexual Violence (MoH Protocol), considered by WHO as a main global […]
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