TAG: sexual rights
Sticks and Stones: Violence in Intimate & Family Relationships of MSM, Transgender Women & Hijras and its Impact on HIV Vulnerability
This policy brief summarizes the impact of intimate partner and family violence on the HIV vulnerability of men who have sex with men (MSM), transgender and hijra community members in India. It calls for an end to the denial and acceptance of emotional, physical, sexual and financial violence experienced by these groups and offers recommendations […]
Read moreScott Long: Tweet for Egypt on IDAHOT: Why it’s important
It’s the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia (IDAHOT, for short). Here’s one important thing you can do. Tweet, or post on Facebook, or write on your blog with a message of support for trans and gay and lesbian Egyptians. Use the hashtags #Antihomophobia, or in Arabic #ضد_رهاب_المثلية . Or the hashtag #انا_مش_مجرم_انا_مختلف — in English, it’s #Am_not_aCriminal_Am_just_Different […]
Read moreRevisiting intersectionality
In Biopolitics at the Crossroads of Sexuality and Disaster: The Case of Haiti, Rosalind Petchesky begins her reflections by sharing a definition of intersectionality: “An intersectional approach invites us to conceptualize every domain or issue of political economy—markets, poverty, growth, militarization, climate change, as well as most problems in public health—as profoundly gendered and sexualized from […]
Read moreSexuality around the world: Main debates
_______________________________________________________ Relevant meetings The V Conference of ILGA-LAC was held in Curitiba, Brazil, from January 26th to 30th, 2010. Regional highlights > Read these information in “Around the World – regional highlights” Also at the regional levels Latin America > Latin American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights (CLAM) website (information in Eng / Port […]
Read moreCampaigns
The links below give access to campaigns engaged on reproductive and sexual rights.
Read moreRegistration: 7th Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights
Realizing Demographic Dividend in Africa: the Critical Importance of Adolescents and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights February 8 – 12, 2016 | Accra, Ghana Click here to learn more.
Read moreMaking Depathologization a matter of law
A comment from GATE on the Maltese Act on Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics. In April, 2015 Malta passed the Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics (GIGESC) Act, which encompasses, in a new and radical combination, legal recognition, protection and anti-discrimination measures. The Act approved by parliamentary consensus on April 1st joins […]
Read moreVideo: Women, sexuality, and social change in China
The era of market reform has created a burgeoning Chinese middle class that craves not only increased consumption of goods and the freedom of self-expression, but also liberty over sexual life. At the same time, women have strengthened their call for the rights and representation to accompany the responsibility of “holding up half the sky.” […]
Read morePorn. Panic. Ban.
Taken from GenderIT.org by Bishakha Datta I’m convinced we’re having the wrong conversation around digital porn. Late last year, the British government banned a bunch of sex acts online, including female ejaculation. Yes, female ejaculation. Talk about the imagined harms (1) of porn. And strangulation, facesitting, fisting, some spanking, full bondage and restraint, plus abusive […]
Read moreSex workers unite to defy stigma
The day the military raided Amina Danait’s* village in Muguru na Nyori will forever remain etched in her mind. Soldiers had been deployed to search for alleged illegally held guns in her village in Northern Kenya. But they also found girls like Amina and, as she recounts, they raped them. “The soldiers paraded the men outside […]
Read more7th Africa Conference on Sexual Rights and Health
Dear Colleague, Join more than 1,000 policymakers, activists and practitioners, including young persons, people living with HIV & AIDS, with disabilities, and LGBQTI persons from Africa and around the world at the 7th Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights. The theme of the conference is Realizing Demographic Dividend in Africa: the Critical Importance […]
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