TAG: gender

COVID-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 […]

COVID-19, economy and inequality: compilation (March – June)

MAY / JUNE Precarity in Times of Pandemic:Covid-19 and the crisis in India’s informal labor markets – Bot Populi Pandemic Meets Precarity: The Case of Platform Delivery Work in Latin America – Bot Populi When Barnes and Noble Warehouse Workers Got Sick, They Organized and Won – Truthout Corporations Will Seize Opportunities to Profit From […]

“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 […]

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 […]

Anti-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 […]

Women’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

Anti-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 – […]

Harvey Weinstein convicted: news and analisys

Full Coverage: Harvey Weinstein Is Found Guilty of Rape – New York Times ABC’s coverage of Weinstein affair We Didn’t Expect Weinstein to Be Convicted, and We Don’t Know How to Feel – The Cut Harvey Weinstein Sentenced to 23 Years – WSJ

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 […]

Désordre dans le genre, chaos dans la nation?

Au sein du Festival des Libertés, qui a eu lieu à Bruxelles, Belgique, la coordinateur du SPW, Sonia Corrêa, a participé du débat Désordre dans le genre, chaos dans la nation?. La montée au pouvoir de dirigeants conservateurs s’accompagne d’une résurgence de mesures prônant un ordre sexuel traditionnel. Au nom de la “tradition” ou de […]

Brazil’s pronunciation at the Nairobi Summit ICPD25

The world has undergone several changes in recent decades, such as declining population growth, aging populations, increased external and internal migratory movements, epidemiological transition, rising youth unemployment. At the same time, many challenges still remain, such as persistent hunger, poverty and socioeconomic inequality, inequality between women and men, violence against women and girls, high rates […]

Three Cards and a Joker: Bolsonaro and the Marielle Case

by Isabela Kalil The Context On October 29, 2019, Jornal Nacional (the main Brazilian television newspaper, broadcast by Rede Globo) reported that the name of Brazil’s current president, Jair Bolsonaro, appeared in the investigation into the murder of Councilwoman Marielle Franco (PSOL). Marielle was assassinated in a drive-by execution in the city of Rio […]