TAG: sexual rights

COVID-19 and gender based violence: news and analysis

‘Calamitous’: domestic violence set to soar by 20% during global lockdown – The Guardian Covid-19 and domestic violence: Caring states? – IDS A New Covid-19 Crisis: Domestic Abuse Rises Worldwide – NY Times How do we keep family violence perpetrators ‘in view’ during the COVID-19 lockdown? – The Conversation Domestic violence rises amid coronavirus lockdowns […]

Sexual politics in times of pandemic

March and early April 2020 It has been very challenging to prepare the SPW announcement for March/April 2020 due to the abnormality, risks, and losses caused by the dizzying spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In this troubled context, we thought that it was not sufficient to compile and organize, in our usual categories, the substantial […]

Biopolitics and coronavirus: compilation (English, Portuguese and Spanish)

English Judith Butler: Capitalism has its limits – Verso Books Giorgio Agamben: Contagion – Enough 14 Paul B. Preciado: The losers conspiracy – Art Forum Theoretical Puppets: Foucault on the Coronavirus, Biopolitics, and the “Apparatus of Security” (2020) – Foucault News Biopolitics and Coronavirus, or don’t forget Foucault (2020) – Foucault News Preventing stigma related […]

COVID-19 and sex work: compilation (April and May update)

‘If I don’t have sex I’ll die of hunger’: Covid-19 crisis for Rio’s trans sex workers – The Guardian Puerto Rico’s Sex Workers Are Struggling to Survive – The Nation ‘Don’t have to fight for pennies’: New Zealand safety net helps sex workers in lockdown – The Guardian Sex Workers Struggle to Survive Covid-19 Pandemic […]

COVID-19 and LGBTQI rights: compilation (April and May update)

Protecting Ourselves in the Age of COVID-19 – MPact The Price of Confinement: The impact of COVID-19 on LGBTQI+ refugees’ community in Lebanon – Arab Foundation For Freedoms & Equality Bangladesh Should Support Hijra, Trans Under Covid-19 – HRW Morocco’s LGBT community faces death threats after online outing – Egypt Independent Trump team moves to […]

COVID-19, gender, feminism and women’s rights: compilation (April and May update)

‘Calamitous’: domestic violence set to soar by 20% during global lockdown – The Guardian For Arab women and girls, the crisis is just beginning – Al Jazeera ‘For the lives of our mothers’: Covid-19 sparks fight for maids’ rights in Brazil – The Guardian COVID-19 and Domestic Abuse: When Home is not the Safest Place […]

Covid-19 and human rights: news and analisys (In English, Portuguese and Spanish)

Abortion Your Questions About Reproductive Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Answered – Rewire Abortion and COVID-19: why we need to support women’s right to abortion in health emergencies – LSE Delaying ‘nonessential’ abortions during coronavirus crisis endangers women’s health and financial future – The Conversation COVID-19 Could Bring the End of ‘Roe v. Wade’ – […]

Sexual politics in January and February 2020

Anti- gender politics in Latin America – SPW is pleased to announce the collection Anti-gender Politics in Latin America, which encompasses nine case studies from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay and Uruguay, a regional study on the effects of anti-gender frays on debates of the Organization of American States, and an […]

Women’s day: compilation

International Women’s Day – a spotlight on gender and development – IDS Why I’ll be striking for International Women’s Day – OpenDemocracy In Kazakhstan, women march for their rights – and against violence – OpenDemocracy Reclaiming gender justice: we must act now to counter backlash threatening women’s rights globally – IDS

Sexual politics round up in 2019

The year of 2019 has finished and, as traditionally, SPW offers our readers and followers a compilation of the main facts, trends, setbacks and victories in gender and sexuality politics that marked the year and point to the challenges ahead in 2020. TRENDS & FACTS January and February Highlights #GlobalPolicyArenas The UN Committee on Human […]

The 2019 election in Uruguay: a new relation of forces

by Santiago Puyol The elections held in Uruguay on Sunday, October 27th, represented the greatest news for the Uruguayan political system fifteen years after the victory of the left-wing coalition Frente Amplio in the 2004 elections. For the first time since its victory, the government party lost Parliamentary majority, registering its lowest vote in the […]

Brazil’s pronunciation at the Nairobi Summit ICPD25

The world has undergone several changes in recent decades, such as declining population growth, aging populations, increased external and internal migratory movements, epidemiological transition, rising youth unemployment. At the same time, many challenges still remain, such as persistent hunger, poverty and socioeconomic inequality, inequality between women and men, violence against women and girls, high rates […]