TAG: human rights

ABIA statement: democracy in Brazil and COVID-19 health policy

The Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA) expresses deep concern regarding President Jair Bolsonaro’s latest changes in the Ministry of Health and regarding his active support for a demonstration in favor of a military coup d’état that was held on Sunday (April 19th) before the Army headquarters in Brasilia. As usual, after being criticized, Bolsonaro tried […]

COVID-19 in South Africa: news and analysis

MAY / JUNE Global report: South Africa records biggest jump in Covid-19 cases since pandemic hit – The Guardian African countries are struggling to keep track of COVID-19 – The Economist What African Nations Are Teaching the West About Fighting the Coronavirus – New Yorker MARCH / APRIL “We are still waiting” – protesting under […]

COVID-19 in Gaza/Palestine: news and analisys (April and May update)

Gaza/Palestine Domestic Violence in COVID-19 Lockdown: Palestinian Women Are Dying at an Alarming Rate – Egyptian Streets COVID-19 in Palestine: Living between hope and fear – Global Voices Politics in the Time of Corona: Gaza (Hosted by Jadaliyya Co-Editors Noura Erakat and Bassam Haddad) – Jadaliyya Politics in the Time of Corona: Punishment in Palestine (Hosted […]

COVID-19 and Biopolitics: Compilation I (March-June 2020)

The Agamben Debates Giorgio Agamben: Contagion – Enough 14 Philosophy and Pandemic in the Postdigital Era: Foucault, Agamben, Žižek – Post Digital Science and Education The Biopolitics of Immunity in Times of COVID-19: An Interview with Roberto Esposito – Antipode Online Giorgio Agamben: The Plague was Already Present – Critical Legal Thinking Understanding the Coronavirus […]

Bukele: A ‘caudilho’ Dies and A Messiah is Born in El Salvador

SPW begins a series of brief analyses of the Covid-19 crisis in contexts that are generally under-reported by the mainstream press and which are characterized as regressive in relation to gender and abortion policy. The second article in this series is about El Salvador. We thank educator Amaral Arévalo for his collaboration! by Amaral Arévalo* […]

Coronavirus in Kashmir: news and analisys (April and May update)

Use of UAPA Against Journalists is Last Nail in Coffin for Press Freedom in Kashmir – The Wire ‘Third World Region of a Third World Country’: How Kashmir Struggles With the Coronavirus – The Wire Is Covid-19 Overshadowing Regular Treatment in Kashmir? – Mena FN Kashmir Tensions on the Rise as Residents Face New Lockdown […]

India and coronavirus: news and analysis (March – June)

Delhi Progrom Victims Getting No Treatment Due to COVID-19 – National Herald FIR against Scroll’s Supriya Sharma for story on Varanasi woman’s lockdown ‘misery’ – The Print The World’s Biggest Lockdown – ABC ‘My angel’: man who became face of India’s stranded helped home by stranger – The Guardian How Modi turned Covid-19 into a […]

Hungary and coronavirus: authoritarianism (April and May update)

Hungary Hungary rolls back legal protections, puts trans and intersex people at risk – Ilga Europe Hungary votes to end legal recognition of trans people – The Guardian Hungary prepares to end legal recognition of trans people – The Guardian Hungary Rejects Opportunity to Protect Women from Violence – HRW Hungary Backs Out of International […]

COVID-19 and sex work: compilation (March – June)

March – April The fragile existence of sex workers during the pandemic – New Yorker Can the world’s oldest profession survive the age of social distancing? – CNN Sex workers abandoned as Covid-19 crackdowns undo Africa’s HIV efforts – Mail & Guardian COVID-19 shines a red light on sex workers’ lack of protection in Europe […]

COVID-19: Conservative religious actors

MAY / JUNE Contesting science and misinformation Ofcom: Christian TV network aired Covid-19 conspiracies – The Guardian Nigerian pastor spread covid-19 conspiracies and disinformation – Global Voices Two-thirds of US believers see Covid-19 as message from God, poll finds – The Guardian Tensions over closing cults Donald Trump orders governors to allow places of worship […]

COVID-19 and LGBTQI rights: compilation (March – June)

MAY / JUNE LGBTQ Inequality and Vulnerability in the Pandemic – HRW LGBT: Covid-19 forced me back home where I’m ‘unwanted’ – BBC LGBT Nonprofits struggle and adapt to new realities – bear Asia India The Modi Govt’s Handling of the Trans Rights Bill is Transphobia in Action – The Wire Halt Implementation of the […]

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 […]