The Sexual Politics Landscape in October 2015
Check the main facts in October 2015. We highlight the Stop Trans Pathologization Campaign 2015; the Synod on the Family’s final statement; Brazilian feminists protests against partially approved legislation that criminalizes providing information and assistance in regard to abortion; and the Indonesian regressive law against sexual freedom.
Brazil: Feminists take the streets against Cunha and Bill 5069/2013
As it has been systematically reported by SPW in the last few months, Brazil is now a battleground in regard to the right to legal
The Sexual Politics Landscape in September 2015
At the global stage, one even to be highlighted was the launching of the Sex Work Law Map, produced by the Institute of Development Studies.
Abortion politics in Brazil: a wider frontline to cope with
The front slide image is a detail of Social Fabric, a drawing by the Brazilian artist Rosana Paulino Article by Sonia Corrêa and Fábio Grotz *
The Sexual Politics landscape in August 2015 and early September
SPW has the great pleasure to announce the publication of Working Paper nº 11 Emerging Powers, Sexuality and Human Rights: Fumbling around the elephant. Authored
Struggling for legal abortion in Brazil: The Congress frontline
Image: Barbara Kruger By Sonia Corrêa[1] As previously reported by SPW (here and here), for some time now, growing obstacles have been impairing any movement
Adriana and the “Business of Sex”
José Miguel Olivar Nieto, the author of the drawing Adriana is a social communicator. He has a master degree in Latin American Literature from the
The sexual politics landscape in July 2015
In July the hottest topic to be reported on is, undoubtedly, the global controversy that emerged when Amnesty International made public a draft policy defining
Sex work and human rights: Under the shadows of (de) regulation
Michelle Agnoletti [1] In July 2015 a heated controversy around sex work and human rights erupted globally. A campaign was launched by international organizations that
What the ‘Abortion Drone’ Will (And Won’t) Mean for Reproductive Rights
The Poland “abortion drone” is causing a splash in the media and excited buzz in the reproductive rights community, but it has also become a source of misinformation and anxiety.