Sexual politics in Brazil: Almost 180 days into the JMB Administration
With great pleasure, SPW offers an assessment of sexuality and gender politics, including abortion rights, in the first (almost) six months of the Jair Messias
Gender and Abortion Rights in the Congressional Scene
By Sonia Corrêa What has been happening, since January, in the Brazilian Congress regarding abortion rights and gender must be situated in a longer political.
Human Rights, Gender and Sexuality: A Minister Who Does Not Play Around
By Rajnia de Vito and Marco Aurélio Prado In a political scene that is thoroughly saturated with sex and gender tropes and memes, Damares Alves,
Lena Lavinas: “We’re watching a politics of dismantling”
Lena Lavinas is an economist and full professor at the Economics Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In 2017, she published the
Health policy: From lull to cataclysm
By Fábio Grotz With regards to the trajectory of the policy response to HIV and reproductive health in Brazil — which, between 1980 and the
Statement read in response to attacks on sexual and reproductive rights during Mercosur meeting
Buenos Aires, July 31th, 2019 Thank you very much, Mr. Secretary, and good afternoon to all. We very much celebrate this space and hail the
Understanding the dismantling of the AIDS response in Brazil
Rio de Janeiro, May 27th, 2019 Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA) After the justifications given by the Ministry of Health for the establishment of the

Bolsonaro attacks against universities: compilation of articles
Walking toward the cliff – Inside Higher Ed Bolsonaro’s budget cuts in Universities – Inside Higher Ed In Brazil, a Hostility to Academe – Inside
Bolsonaro’s budget cuts in universities
by Marcelo Knobel* By making what the minister considers a “very small cut”, it will be impossible for universities to conduct daily operations at even
Politics of Death: The End of Brazil’s Department of AIDS
Brazil’s national AIDS movement – comprised of networks, collectives, CSOs and activists signed below – repudiates Decree N. 9795 (read in Portuguese), released on May