TAG: Brazil

Sexuality around the world: Main debates

_______________________________________________________ Relevant meetings The V Conference of ILGA-LAC was held in Curitiba, Brazil, from January 26th to 30th, 2010. Regional highlights > Read these information in “Around the World – regional highlights” Also at the regional levels Latin America > Latin American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights (CLAM) website (information in Eng / Port […]

THE HIV POSITIVE POSTER

A new campaign created by Ogilvy Brazil for the NGO Life Support Group (GIV) spread posters throughout São Paulo carrying an actual HIV positive drop of blood; the goal is to combat the prejudice related to people who have the virus. Check the video

Criminalization of Abortions Among Young Women: Analysis of the Public Safety and Justice Systems in Rio de Janeiro

Read the article Young Women: Analysis of the Public Safety and Justice Systems in Rio de Janeiro, by Carla Gomes and Beatriz Galli.

The abortion frontline in Brazil: one step forward

Fábio Grotz & Sonia Corrêa Abortion is criminalized in Brazil, except in the cases of woman’s life risk, rape and anencephalic mal formation of the fetus. Though the topic is usually spoken about in whispers in daily conversations – and in many social contexts, abortion remains a taboo – clandestine and unsafe termination of pregnancy […]

The Brazilian Resolution

In collaboration with Arc International and Action Canada for Population and Development (ACPD) SPW has organized an international consultation involving LGBT activists, from all over the world, in preparation for the 2004 debates of the UN Commission on Human Rights (UN CHR) that would vote the resolution on sexual orientation and gender identity tabled by […]

Brazil’s only openly gay MP Jean Wyllys de Matos Santos leads the fight to legalise abortion

Jean Wyllys de Matos Santos does not pick the easy battles, nor does he pick the vote-winning ones. The first openly gay MP in Brazil, Mr Wyllys has always championed the conservative country’s minorities, whether they are gay, black, abused or exploited. But his latest fight concerns everyone. Women’s reproductive rights, including the right to […]

Abortion in Brazil: a matter of life and death

The day after Jandyra went for an abortion her body was found mutilated beyond recognition. Donna Bowater reports on the plight of millions of women who put their lives in the hands of gangs running dangerous clinics ‘They don’t have consciences – they are monsters. These clinics are not thinking about the wellbeing of the […]

Brazilian Interdisciplinary Aids Association has launched Global AIDS Policy Watch (GAPW)

Brazilian Interdisciplinary Aids Association has launched Global AIDS Policy Watch (GAPW), a watchdog to monitor and develop a critical analysis of AIDS-related policies globally and to create a Knowledge and Action Network that brings together key stakeholders from NGOs. Click here and here to learn more.

Working Paper, No.5 – Pope’s visit to Brazil, by Washington Castilhos

In 2007, the Pope’s visit to Brazil mobilized groups in opposition to the Vatican’s moral dogmatism. In support of these groups, SPW, in close collaboration with CLAM, has produced short articles to illuminate the larger social and political context within which the Pope’s visit occurred. This series of articles comprises the SPW 5th Working Paper […]

As Women Die from Illegal Abortions in Brazil, Presidential Candidates Remain Silent

By Lucy Jordan September 25, 2014 | 8:05 pm In late August, a 27-year-old woman named Jandira dos Santos Cruz went to a bus station in Rio de Janeiro and got into a stranger’s car. She was four months pregnant. Communicating via text, Cruz had arranged to meet a woman who would take her to […]

September 28th – Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion

SPW joins forces with other networks and organizations engaged in the Global Day of Action for Access to Safe Abortion. We recall that the date is a creation of Latin American feminists who choose September 28th to evoke the Brazilian 1871 Decree of the Free Womb granting freedom to the children born of slave’s mothers. […]

Portuguese written materials on the cases, few of which also look into the connections with electoral politics

Caso Jandira e aborto no Brasil: crime com pena de morte – Pragmatismo político Coragem para enfrentar o preconceito – Observatório da Imprensa Sobre princípios, escrúpulos e temas polêmicos – Observatório da Imprensa Aborto e machismo no mercado de trabalho – Revista Fórum Aborto não é questão de opinião – Carta Capital Igreja: pauta é […]