TAG: discrimination
COVID-19 and human rights: compilation (April and May uptade)
Politics in the Time of Corona: Anti-Asian Racism: A Feature of the COVID-19 Pandemic (Hosted by Jadaliyya Co-Editors Noura Erakat and Bassam Haddad) – Jadaliyya Complaints of racism mar China’s coronavirus response – Al Jazeera COVID-19 updates – IDS Respect Rights in COVID-19 Response – Human Rights Watch Governments Should Respect Rights in COVID-19 Surveillance […]
Read moreCOVID-19, gender, feminism and women’s rights: compilation (April and May update)
Navigating the Heteronormative Household: Rabenmutter, Racism and Covid-19 – Feminist Review ‘Calamitous’: domestic violence set to soar by 20% during global lockdown – The Guardian For Arab women and girls, the crisis is just beginning – Al Jazeera ‘For the lives of our mothers’: Covid-19 sparks fight for maids’ rights in Brazil – The Guardian […]
Read moreCOVID-19 and HIV/AIDS: compilation (April and May update)
HIV/Aids What Lessons Does the AIDS Crisis Offer for the Coronavirus Pandemic? – Masha Gessen – The New Yorker Larry Kramer had the courage to act on his fear – The New Yorker No medicine, no food: Coronavirus restrictions amplify health risks to LGBT+ people with HIVhe life-saving treatment they need – Openly News SARS-CoV-2 […]
Read moreCOVID-19, media and (dis)information: compilation
MAY / JUNE English Information warfare: COVID-19’s other battleground in the Middle East – Global Voices Nearly half of all tweets on coronavirus likely came from a bot, study says – Truth Out Despite Battling COVID Misinformation, Community Radio News Still Seen as ‘Security Threat’ – The Wire Portuguese Pressão de militares após recordes de […]
Read more“Our Atlas of Hate Denounces Anti-LGBT Polish Municipalities”
For some time now, many Polish municipalities, provinces and regions have been approving a series of resolutions which, more or less explicitly, aim to target and exclude the country’s sexual minorities: to inform about the situation and to make world public opinion aware of the problem’s extension, Jakub Gawron created, with the help of other […]
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Sexual politics in January and February 2020
Anti- gender politics in Latin America – SPW is pleased to announce the collection Anti-gender Politics in Latin America, which encompasses nine case studies from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay and Uruguay, a regional study on the effects of anti-gender frays on debates of the Organization of American States, and an […]
Read moreAnti-gender politics in Latin America
SPW is pleased to announce the collection Anti-gender Politics in Latin America, comprised of 9 case studies from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay and Uruguay, a regional study on the effects of the debate held by the Organization of American States, and an article that traces a genealogy of the religious […]
Read moreWomen’s day: compilation
International Women’s Day – a spotlight on gender and development – IDS Why I’ll be striking for International Women’s Day – OpenDemocracy In Kazakhstan, women march for their rights – and against violence – OpenDemocracy Reclaiming gender justice: we must act now to counter backlash threatening women’s rights globally – IDS
Read moreSmart Guide: Recognising Sex Workers as Experts
This Smart Person’s Guide is a tool to support sex workers and their allies in advocating for the recognition of sex workers’ expertise. Sex workers’ have an indispensable knowledge of, and experience with the structural, legal, institutional, socio-economic and cultural barriers which impede their human and labour rights. Evidence shows that meaningful involvement of sex […]
Read moreAnti-CCA rallies in India: news and analisys
India’s New Laws Hurt Women Most of All – Foreign Policy We Are Seeing, for the First Time, a Sustained Countrywide Movement Led by Women – The Wire Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus Come Together in Massive Anti-CAA Rallly at Malerkotla – The Wire West Bengal: Protest by Muslim women against CAA, NPR, NRC in Kolkata – […]
Read moreIndia anti-muslims pogrom: news, analysis and condemnation
“The violence unleashed against Muslims in Delhi by armed Hindu mobs during President Donald Trump’s visit to India is a portent and a lesson. […] More than an echo of the past, the recent violence in Delhi is a lesson”. Read SPW’s compilation.
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Sexual politics round up in 2019
The year of 2019 has finished and, as traditionally, SPW offers our readers and followers a compilation of the main facts, trends, setbacks and victories in gender and sexuality politics that marked the year and point to the challenges ahead in 2020. TRENDS & FACTS January and February Highlights #GlobalPolicyArenas The UN Committee on Human […]
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