TAG: political economy

Summerschool on Health Law and Ethics 2017

Summerschool on Health Law and Ethics 2017 28 June – 7 July 2017 The Erasmus Observatory on Health Law / Institute of Health Policy & Management (Erasmus University Rotterdam) announces the annual Summer school on Health Law and Ethics, providing students, academics, professionals and practitioners, with an opportunity for intensive training in various aspects of […]

Sexual Politics in March and early April 2017

In March and early April, the abortion frontline in Latin America has been remarkably eventful, in positive ways. In Bolivia, the proposed revision of abortion law, which is part of the broader reform of the country’s Penal Code, ignited an intense public debate. More relevant yet, in El Salvador, where the criminalization of abortion is […]

Brazil: Abortion lawsuit at the Supreme Court

On March 7, a lawsuit (ADPF 442) was filed at the Brazilian Supreme Court to challenge the constitutionality of Penal Code’s articles 124 and 126 that criminalize abortion. The petition was presented by the left-wing party PSOL and the feminist NGO Anis, because, as pointed out by the professor of criminal law Luciana Boiteux, a […]

Latin America’s Gender Ideology Explosion

While it would be nice to report that the phrase is merely a malapropism, it is a very deliberate concept spawned by conservative religious groups. “Gender ideology” is becoming the catch-all metonym of a growing global movement opposing gender equality, abortion,

Sexual Politics in February and early March 2017

There are many events to be reported in regard to abortion rights in February and early March 2017. The most important comes from Brazil where potential regressions on abortion rights have been registered in recent years. A lawsuit was filed at the Supreme Court, on March 7th, by a political party (PSOL) and the feminist […]

She Decides – challenging US Global Gag Rule

The story to date On 22 January 2017, the Global Gag Rule was reinstated by Donald Trump the day after he took office. (See the Campaign newsletter report of 27 January which outlines the history of the Gag Rule, which goes back 32 years, the consequences it had for NGOs in the past and the […]

Annual Report 2016: International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion

In 2016, membership of the Campaign increased by 25% to 1,132 members in 113 countries. We coordinated and promoted the biggest and most influential International Safe Abortion Day on 28 September to date, calling for decriminalisation of abortion, a moratorium on prosecutions, and universal access to safe abortion. We also gathered hundreds of signatures from […]

Trump Rescinds Rules on Bathrooms for Transgender Students

President Trump on Wednesday rescinded protections for transgender students that had allowed them to use bathrooms corresponding with their gender identity, overruling his own education secretary and placing his administration firmly in the middle

Petition to Supreme Court of Brazil seeks decriminalization of abortion

A petition was filed today, 7 March 2017, with the Brazilian Supreme Court which calls for the decriminalization of abortion on request up to 12 weeks of pregnancy. The petition was filed by the Socialism and Freedom Party (PSOL), with support from Anis – Institute of Bioethics.

Grada Kilomba: decolonizing thinking, performing knowledge

Grada Kilomba is a Portuguese writer, scholar and artist who enacts and delivers decolonial knowledge by weaving relations between gender, race and class. She is a professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Her work combines a wide range of means — publications, performed lectures and theoretical texts, videos and performances — creating a […]

UN Human Rights Council: report on Fundamentalism, Extremism and Cultural Rights

The Secretariat has the honour to transmit to the Human Rights Council the report of the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Karima Bennoune, pursuant to Council resolution 19/6. In the report, the Special Rapporteur addresses the phenomena of fundamentalism and extremism and their grave impact on the enjoyment of cultural rights. She […]

Queering Islamophobia – The Homonationalism of the Muslim Ban

As we resist Trump’s potential anti-LGBTQ orders, it’s important to remember that even though Trump is himself transphobic and homophobic, he can get on the side of LGBTQ rights when it’s convenient.