
WLUML Launches Women’s Charters Book Free Online
Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) has announced the online publishing of Women’s Charters and Declarations: Building Another World written by Rashida Manjoo, the UN’s
Butterflies: a video by Vagner Almeida
Buttlerflies is an awarwed video directed by Vagner Almeida documenting the lives of young gay men and travesties in the poor outskirts of Rio de

Human Rights Speaker Series
On May 28th, Sonia Corrêa, SPW co-chair, spoke at the panel on Human Rights at the Global Stage, organized by the City of West Hollywood.

African Transfeminism
S.H.E social, health and empowerment feminist collective of Transgender and Intersex Women of Africa has launched its first newsletter, which brings news about trans activism

Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Centre
Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Centre has published ICPD Beyond 2014 Global Report, which is the culmination of a landmark UN review of progress, gaps, challenges and emerging

EROTICs project final publication online
Read the final publication of the EROTICS: sex, rights and the Internet project here.


Egyptian police ‘using rape as a weapon’ against dissident groups
The Guardian brings information on the dissemination of rape as a practice used by Egyptian police against arrested dissidents. Read more.

Indian Supreme Court Recognizes 3rd Gender
In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court of India allowed a transgender people to identify as a third gender and directed the central and state

Out of Madness, A Matriarchy
Mother Jones brings an article about women’s role in Rwanda, two decades after the genocide that killed 800.000 people. Today, women represent two-thirds of the