TAG: marriage laws

Northern Ireland lawmakers back same-sex marriage

Northern Ireland lawmakers on Monday for the first time voted in favor of marriage rights for same-sex couples.The historic 53-52 vote is the first time a majority of lawmakers in Northern Ireland, which is part of the U.K. voted in favor of the issue. The Democratic Unionist Party, a Protestant party which has the most […]

The Sexual Politics Landscape in October 2015

Check the main facts in October 2015. We highlight the Stop Trans Pathologization Campaign 2015; the Synod on the Family’s final statement; Brazilian feminists protests against partially approved legislation that criminalizes providing information and assistance in regard to abortion; and the Indonesian regressive law against sexual freedom.

The Synod on Family

The Synod on Family has ended in October 24 with a final document produced by the bishops gathered at the Assembly called by Pope Francis to discuss the churc’s views over marriage and family. The statement has sparked global attention, especially by its approach toward divorced people and same-sex marriage. Below, you can find some […]

The Sexual Politics Landscape in September 2015

At the global stage, one even to be highlighted was the launching of the Sex Work Law Map, produced by the Institute of Development Studies. It provides a perspective on female sex work by displaying a detailed summary of the laws, regulations and policies in over 75 countries. The novel IDS research tool was made […]

Articles of Pope Francis’ meeting with Kim Davis

Pope Francis’s meeting with Kim Davis disappointed the liberals he courted – The Guardian Vatican: Pope Francis Barely Knew Who Kim Davis Was When He Met Her – Mother Jones Pope Francis, the Kentucky Clerk and Culture Wars Revisited – New York Times Pope Francis’ Meeting Wasn’t an Endorsement of Kim Davis’s Views, Vatican Says […]

Intersectionality of sexuality, inequality and poverty

I recently had the pleasure (and challenge) of being part of a team of Research Assistants working for the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). My two colleagues and I were tasked with coding, analysing and summarising eighteen IDS Sexuality, Poverty and Law programme Evidence Reports under five thematic areas, one of which was ‘Economy, employment […]

The sexual politics landscape in July 2015

In July the hottest topic to be reported on is, undoubtedly, the global controversy that emerged when Amnesty International made public a draft policy defining a new line of work aimed at the protection of the human rights of sex workers, to be approved by the forthcoming meeting of its International Council (beginning on August […]

Critically examining the US Supreme Court decision on same –sex marriage

Of course I cried. I cried because these nine antiquarian arbiters in funeral garb – five of them anyway, each looking about as forward-thinking and progressive as a constipated grandparent – informed me at last that I am part of this Great Community they help to govern.

Gloria Careaga Perez: Towards a society based on rights and freedoms

By Gloria Careaga Perez Since 2009, when same sex marriage was legalized in Mexico City, obbstacles faced by same-sex couples to be granted full rights under Mexican law in other states of the country have triggered a flow of lawsuits aimed at contesting the refusal of state authorities to recognize their marriages. These lawsuits, on […]

Same-sex marriage in June 2015

As we know June is always important for LGBT rights. But this year the month has been especially productive in respect to the same marriage agenda. This trail, in fact, began a month earlier in Ireland, where a referendum has granted these right to those demanding them for a long time. Ireland it should be […]

“The Republic of Love”

By Anne Mulhall On the complex achievement of the same sex marriage referendum in Ireland The importance of the political mobilization of working-class communities in Dublin in the process of building a self-organized and powerful anti-austerity movement cannot be overstated, and this was a decisive factor in the marriage referendum passing. Voters in Jobstown and […]

Mexico Supreme Court Legalizes Gay Marriage

Mexico’s Supreme Court has effectively legalized same-sex marriage after finding that state laws restricting marriage only to heterosexual couples were discriminatory. “When I heard the judge pronounce us legally married, I burst into tears,” Hiram Gonzalez told The New York Times. Gonzalez married his boyfriend, Severiano Chavez, last year in the state of Chihuahua after […]