TAG: Brazil

Fiocruz calls the Brazilian National STD/AIDS Program to correct its course*

Brazil: After awake praises in the international arena and be highlighted as a model, Brazilian National STD/AIDS Program is called to correct its course years. Read more.

ABIA and SPW support the Brazilian UPR Pre-session

Brazil: ABIA and SPW supported the Brazilian UPR Pre-session, which took place on April 2nd, in Geneva, presenting a short video and recommendations aiming to contextualize some recent aspects of human rights in the country.

March 8th – The International Women’s Day: some highlights

Global: To mark the International Women’s Day and to highlight backs and forwards in terms of women’s current condition, SPW has gathered a series of articles, studies, news and arts in a special bulletin.

Letter of protest against the murder of Professor Cleides Antônio Amorim (UFT)

Brazil: Cleides Amorim, a professor at the Federal University of Tocantins, was one of over a dozen LGBT Brazilians murdered in just the first two weeks of 2012. AllOut started a national campaign aimed at Federal Government, inspired in a protest letter from a group of professors of Brazilian universities. Read more.

Sonia Corrêa: In the name of “maternalism”, all privacy violation is permitted

Interview: Conceição Lemes A protest movement against the Provisional Measure 577 (MP 577) creating the National System of Registration, Tracking and Follow-up of Pregnant and Puerperal Women for the Prevention of Maternal Mortality Amongst is expanding amongst feminists and other groups advocating for comprehensive women’s health and women’s sexual and reproductive rights. The decree was […]

Reports to the UN Universal Periodic Review Brazil – 2012

In November 2011, ABIA and SPW were involved with Conectas Human Rights, Global Justice and other organizations in the production of reports on the situation of human rights in Brazil, in different fields, for the second UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR). Read the reports (in Portuguese, Spanish and English).

MP 557 is an absurd measure; instead of protecting pregnant women, it violates their human rights

Brazil: President Dilma Roussef signed an act that regulates the obligatory registration of pregnant women. The text includes language that treats the fetus as a person. Read more.

ABEH (Brazilian Association of Homoculture Studies) releases the call for papers and schedule of the VI International Conference of Studies on Sexual and Gender Diversity

The Brazilian Association of Studies on Homoculture (ABEH) released the first version of the schedule, the menu of group themes, and the composition of the scientific commission of the VI International Conference of Studies on Sexual and Gender Diversity that is going to take place at UFBA (Federal University of Bahia) in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, on August 1st, 2nd and 3rd, 2012.

Reports to the UN Universal Periodic Review Brazil – 2012

Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW) and the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA) were involved in the production of reports on the status of human rights in Brazil for the second Universal Periodic Review of the Human Rights Council, which will be held in June 2012. Read the reports.

Human Rights Council 17th Regular Session: General Remarks by Brazil

GENERAL REMARKS BY BRAZIL, L.9/Rev.1 Human Rights Council 17th Regular Session Agenda Item 8 Decisions L.9/Rev.1 Geneva, 17 June 2011 GENERAL REMARKS BY BRAZIL Thank you Mr. President, First and foremost we wish to commend South Africa for its leadership and its openness to hear views and discuss them in a constructive and transparent manner. This […]

Brazilian Supreme Court gives unanimous judgement in favour of the legal recognition of same sex partnerships

Brazil: Brazilian Supreme Court gives unanimous judgement in favour of the legal recognition of same sex partnerships. Read the ABGLT’s note.

Responding to HIV and AIDS in Brazil: Structural Violence, Social Movements, and the Local Politics of Global Health

Richard Parker, SPW’s Co-chair, will participate in the Seminar Responding to HIV and AIDS in Brazil: Structural Violence, Social Movements, and the Local Politics of Global Health, which will be held on May 2nd 2011 at the Wenner-Gren Foundation, in New York. Read more at the New York Academy of Sciences Anthropology website .