TAG: political repression

Chile Uprising: A Call for Dignity

Jaime Barrientos, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile. Manuel Cárdenas, Escuela de Psicología, Universidad Valparaíso, Chile. In Chile, at the beginning of October 2019, we were led to believe that we lived in a paradise. In fact, President Sebastián Piñera recently described the country as an oasis in the middle of the Latin American […]

Brazilian 2018 presidential elections in figures

This fact sheet present figures of the results of the second round of the 2018 Brazilian presidential elections. The data comes from different sources: Items 1, 2, and 10 come from the TSE (Electoral Justice) database. Data and maps presented in Items 4, 5 and 6 (cities, income, race, religion) combine data from the Electoral […]

Sexual politics in July 2018

22nd International AIDS Conference: On July 22, Pedro Villardi, from GTPI-ABIA, participated in the Challenging Criminalization Globally Pre-Conference, one of the more important satellites events in which matters related to gender and sexuality were debated. Other relevant events to be reported are: the Change seminar on the detrimental effects of Trump policies; the debate called […]

Solidarity statement in support of Professor Maria Clara Dias

We, the undersigned, members of the academic community and civil society organizations, denounce the persecution suffered by advocates of the LGBTI+ community and demonstrate our support for Professor Maria Clara Dias, at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, who has been victimized by terrifyingly offensive and untruthful accusations. The attacks are directed at […]

2018 Pride Day in Iran

July 27 is Pride Day in Iran. It’s been the 9th following year that the 4th Friday of July (1st Fri of Mordad in Persian calendar) is named & celebrated as Iran Pride Day. Although being queer is officially illegal & same-sex sexual conduct could be punished by death in Iran, LGBTIQs inside the country […]

Sexual politics in June 2018

Main global trends ICD Reform – On June 18, the Working Group set up by the World Health Organization (WHO), has released the final version of the International Classification Diseases 11 (ICD 11). These parameters have been under review since 2011 and the outcome of this long process means an important victory for transnational trans rights […]

The globalisation of anti-gender campaigns

Transnational anti-gender movements in Europe and Latin America create unlikely alliances by Sonia Corrêa, David Patternote and Roman Kuhar This is a paper originally published in English in the International Politics and Society (IPS) webiste and subsequently re-published in Spanish by Open Democracy. To read it click here.

Sexual politics in May 2018

Nicaragua: SPW calls attention to the violent political crisis sweeping through this small Central American country and expresses its solidarity with the Nicaraguan society that continues to resist the brutal violence perpetrated by the Ortega–Murillo regime. The deep and brutal political crisis that began in April, has not gained the deserved visibility amongst progressive sectors or […]

Gender Ideology: tracking its origins and meanings in current gender politics

by Sonia Corrêa In the first week of November 2017, Judith Butler was viciously attacked in Brazil by a heterogeneous group of actors who define themselves as anti-gender,[1] a regrettable episode caught the attention of both the media and international and global North academics. This well-orchestrated political formation is not new and much less peculiarly Brazilian. As analysed […]

Report on Human Rights of Intersex People in South Africa

On 11 December 2017, Intersex South Africa, the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development, the Foundation for Human Rights and Iranti joined activists and members of the intersex community in the first largescale engagement with government on matters of intersex genital mutilation, infanticide, healthcare procedures and standards of living. Representatives of Intersex South Africa (ISSA) shared […]

Sexual politics in March and early April 2018

On March 14th, 2018, Marielle Franco and her driver Anderson Gomes were brutally assassinated in a shootout a week after Women’s International Day. Marielle was a black feminist lesbian and a Municipal Councilor in Rio de Janeiro. A member of PSOL (the Socialism and Freedom Party), she was elected by more than 45,000 votes and […]

Can a subaltern speak?

Can a subaltern speak? No, is the response of the feminist philosopher Gayatri Spivak, when she realizes that to “have the right to a voice” the place of the subaltern must be subverted.