TAG: sexual politics
Report documents anti-trans violence in Central America
A new report indicates transgender women in Central America remain particularly vulnerable to discrimination and violence.
Read moreMozambique’s Double Speak on LGBT Rights
When Mozambique’s human rights record was reviewed before the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva this week, the government’s inconsistency on homosexuality was in full view.
Read moreHow the West Undermined Women’s Rights in the Arab World
This article is based on some of the research that I have conducted over the past two years on women’s activism in Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan, from independence until the Arab uprisings. I collected over one hundred personal narratives from middle class women activists of different generations.
Read moreNew issue of Reproductive Health Matters: sexuality, sexual rights and sexual politics
The issue 46 of Reproductive Health Matters focuses on the theme “Sexuality, sexual rights and sexual politics” and brings articles offering “a wide range of analysis, perspectives and evidence that highlight the nexus between sexual health and human rights and deepen our knowledge about the challenges and opportunities for individuals of any sexual orientation or […]
Read more2015 Sexual Politics Round- Up
As the year heads toward its end, SPW recollects main trends and facts in sexual politics worldwide. January Pope Francis drew global attention after urging the faithful not to reproduce as “rabbits”. The remarks sparked reactions from the most diverse quarters actors (here and here). In Chile, a new law was approved that recognized civil unions […]
Read moreNew issue of Kohl: a Journal for Body and Gender
The second issue of Kohl: a Journal for Body and Gender Research is out. Kohl serves as an alternative platform of knowledge production. It tackles feminisms, bodies, and sexualities, as they intersect with other identities and struggles in the Middle East, South West Asia, and North Africa region. The current issue’s theme is The Non-Exotic Erotic: […]
Read moreSexual Politics in November 2015
As we were finalizing the compilation of sexual politics related events that make the headlines in November the screens were taken over by the armed attack on the Colorado abortion clinic that killed three people and left many other gravely hurt. There was no time to develop an in depth analysis of this tragic event, […]
Read moreMyanmar: women’s fight against verbal taboo symbolises wider rights battle
Lack of sex education for women perpetuates gender inequality in Myanmar but activists addressing such issues are falling foul of Buddhist extremists A woman showering outside her shack in Yangon. Women in Myanmar are struggling to gain control of their lives. Photograph: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images In Myanmar there are no vaginas. Linguistically, at least, that […]
Read moreRHM nº 47: Call for Papers – Gender-based and sexual violence: barriers to sexual and reproductive health and rights
Reproductive Rights Matters – volume 24 number 47 may/june 2016 In this issue of the journal, we are hoping to gather a wide diversity of articles on how violence can be conceptualised, comprehended and measured. We want to look at the impact of violence on sexual and reproductive health and rights, and what effective […]
Read moreGay couple seeks help from U.S. officials in surrogacy case
Gordon “Bud” Lake and his husband are unable to take their daughter, Carmen Santos Lake, third from left, out of Thailand because her surrogate mother objects to the fact she will be raised by a same-sex couple. (Photo courtesy of Gordon Lake) A Florida man and his husband continue to urge U.S. officials to support […]
Read moreThe UN Security Council debates gays and ISIS: Why this is a bad idea
By Scott Long I. Questions On August 18, the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL or by its Arabic acronym, Da’ish) assaulted history. They beheaded an 82 year-old archaeologist, the resident expert on the ruins in the occupied city of Palmyra. Two days earlier, on August 16, Syrian government warplanes assaulted daily life; Assad’s pilots bombed a crowded […]
Read moreWho’s Modi to discipline us?
Shiv Visvanathan @ShivVisvanathan Narendra Modi’s economic and technological policies might have limited impact despite the presence of stellar experts like Arvind Panagriya, Raghuram Rajan and Arvind Subramanian. If the first year of his regime has created anything it is not a regulation of the economy but a “civics of morality” or even of a preferred […]
Read more