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Article 19 releases new study about dating apps and LGBTQ persecution

Repression and marginalisation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Queer (LGBTQ) people across the world have limited safe opportunities for LGBTQ people to meet up but this is especially true for communities in the Middle East and North Africa. Targeting of LGBTQ groups in the MENA region reached a climax in September 2017 when more than […]

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Sexual Politics in January 2018

In January of 2018, a fierce transnational feminist controversy erupted on the question of sexual harassment. In the same week of the Golden Globes Award ceremony when the #TimeIsUp campaign for equal gender pay was launched, a manifesto signed by a hundred French women artists and writers was published by Le Monde, titled The freedom […]

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Sexual Politics 2017 Round-Up

As 2018 begins, SPW highlights the main events and trends as well as tensions and challenges traversing sexual politics worldwide. Trends and Facts January In January 2017, an avalanche of draconian and regressive policy measures was adopted in the first two weeks of the Trump administration. SPW compiled a preliminary assessment of these policy trends date […]

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The Anatrella case and the silence from the “family defenders”

What happens when a big name of the anti-gender crusade is involved in a sex scandal? Rogério Diniz Junqueira* Monsignor Tony Anatrella is a prominent name in the galaxy of anti-gender “experts”. A French Catholic priest of the diocese of Paris and a psychotherapist, he has been for years a reference for the ultraconservative Catholic […]

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Report ‘Defending the UN Independent Expert on SOGI’

The IE SOGI mandate was created through UN Human Rights Council resolution A/HRC/RES/32/2 in June of last year and was confirmed through six separate votes over the UNGA session in 2016. Despite this comprehensive process of approval, some UN Member States insist on opposing any decision that links sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and […]

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Sexual politics in Brazil: the conservative restoration a further step ahead

  As SPW readers know, for some years now Brazil has been undergoing regressions in gender and sexual politics and, since last year, a full conservative political restoration. In September 2017, these trends have decidedly escalated.   Potential legislative retrogressions in relation to existing abortion rights have not relented at Congress level, where the constitutional amendment […]

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Sexual Politics in September 2017

September is the key moment of the year in regard to abortion rights,  as the 28th marks the International Safe Abortion Day worldwide.  As informed by the International Campaign for Women’s to Safe Abortion, the pre-day bulletin circulated by the Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights and other sources in 2017 a much larger number of […]

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Compilation on Egypt’s LGBT crackdown

Update: 7 arrested for ‘promoting sexual deviancy’ after raising rainbow flag at Mashrou’ Leila gig – Mada Masr – September, 26 At least 22 arrested in continued security crackdown on LGBTQ individuals – Mada Masr – September, 30 All Forms of Support to the LGBT Community to be Banned on Media Outlets: SCMR – Egyptian […]

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Kyrgyzstan Manual for Health professionals

MANUAL ON PROVISION OF MEDICAL AND SOCIAL CARE FOR TRANSGENDER, TRANSSEXUAL AND GENDER NONCONFORMING PEOPLE FOR MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS OF ALL LEVELS OF THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC HEALTHCARE SYSTEM AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS The work on the manual was being carried out in September-November 2016 by a working group of psychiatrists, psychotherapists, endocrinologists from Kyrgyzstan and Russia, with […]

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Tanzanian Joint Press Statement: The Right to Freedom of Association Under Threat

The right to freedom of association under threat:               20 arrested in Tanzania for alleged homosexuality 20 September 2017 The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, and Pan Africa International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex Association (Pan Africa ILGA) strongly condemn the recent arrest of parents and NGO […]

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APS Tools for communicating about marriage equality and related issues

  This information sheet provides some helpful tips for people wanting to communicate in constructive ways about marriage equality and related issues like gender diversity, sexual orientation, homophobia, equality and justice. The more that people are engaging with others in respectful ways, the greater the chance that we can create peaceful and inclusive communities to everyone’s […]

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Report LGBT in Britain: Hate Crime and Discrimination

  Stonewall’s new report LGBT in Britain: Hate Crime and Discrimination is out now and reveals high levels of hate crime and discrimination in the UK: The report reveals high levels of hate crime and discrimination in the UK: Experience of hate crime by lesbian, gay and bi people in Britain has gone up by […]

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