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Sex Worker Zine Project
The Sex Worker Zine Project features work that was produced by 24 men, women and transgender participants who live and sell sex in the Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces of South Africa. The project involved collaboration with the Sisonke Sex Worker Movement and the MoVE Project.
Read moreQueer Crossings: a participatory arts based project
This anthology is the first time that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) migrants and refugees in South Africa have shared their stories and memories in print. It includes short non-fiction, poetry, and visual art created by eleven LGBTIQ migrants and refugees who took part in two participatory projects conducted in partnership with the […]
Read moreANSIRH: In their own words: experiences of women denied abortions
Even in countries with legal abortion, many women are unable to access a safe procedure for myriad reasons, including a lack of knowledge about the legal status of abortion, a lack of money to pay for the procedure, social stigma against abortion or, commonly, because they present for care too far along in pregnancy. This […]
Read moreMalta’s abortion ban: ‘I’m not a criminal. I’m a loving mother’
Malta is for now the EU’s last country where abortion is banned in all cases. While some are beginning to call for a public debate on women’s reproductive rights, the topic of abortion remains a highly sensitive issue in the archipelago.
Read moreILGA – Statement on gender incongruence of childhood
As the world federation of LGBTI organisations, we strongly believe that gender diversity is not – and should never be – a pathology.
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Sexual Politics in April 2016
A new wave of deadly attacks against human rights and secular activists is at play in Bangladesh. In final April, two LGBT activists were hacked to death, fueling outrage and protest around the world. Weeks before, some protesters were detained during the celebration the Bengali New Year. In the context of this crisis we bring […]
Read moreAbortion in Argentina: women twice betrayed
Belén’s troubling abortion case in Tucumán, Argentina, demonstrates how institutions meant to care for and protect us instead regularly violate our rights—including the right to health, confidentiality, and due process.
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As the Brazilian crisis unfolds, the abortion frontlines keep burning
Since our reports of early 2015, SPW has always linked developments in the abortion debate to the on-going Brazilian political and economic crisis. On April 17th, 2016, this crisis reached an initial point of culmination when the House of Representatives voted for and approved the admissibility of the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff.
Read moreBrazilian state violence: one more episode
Luana Barbosa dos Reis Santos was brutally killed by Brazilian cops in the city of Ribeirão Preto (São Paulo) in early April. She was taking her son to a computer class in a motorcycle when three officers stopped her to check if, according to the police, the vehicle had been robbed. The scene was not […]
Read moreAn unamed letter from Bangladesh regarding the murders of LGBT activists
SPW shares an unnamed letter written by Bangladesh activist after the murders of LGBT activists in the Asian country in the past weeks. The letter draws attention for the danger of protesting around the global against the murders, while it may actually fuel Western hegemonic discourses that claim to defend and promote tolerance, usually through […]
Read moreEuropean Parliament speaks out against online homo- and transphobic hate speech
In a report adopted yesterday, the European Parliament expresses its concern over online homo- and transphobic hate speech, and calls for strong measures to counter online hate speech. The demands are made in the report on Gender equality and empowering women in the digital age. The report urges the Commission to demand greater efforts from […]
Read moreStories of Intersex people from Nepal
The stories in this book are based upon the writings of intersex participants at the First Intersex National Meeting in Nepal, held on 8-9 February 2016 in Kathmandu. The meeting took place with support from the UNDP as part of the “Being LGBTI in Asia” program.
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