TAG: violence

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 […]

COVID-19 in Gaza/Palestine: news and analisys (April and May update)

Gaza/Palestine Domestic Violence in COVID-19 Lockdown: Palestinian Women Are Dying at an Alarming Rate – Egyptian Streets COVID-19 in Palestine: Living between hope and fear – Global Voices Politics in the Time of Corona: Gaza (Hosted by Jadaliyya Co-Editors Noura Erakat and Bassam Haddad) – Jadaliyya Politics in the Time of Corona: Punishment in Palestine (Hosted […]

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 […]

Hungary and coronavirus: authoritarianism (April and May update)

Hungary Hungary rolls back legal protections, puts trans and intersex people at risk – Ilga Europe Hungary votes to end legal recognition of trans people – The Guardian Hungary prepares to end legal recognition of trans people – The Guardian Hungary Rejects Opportunity to Protect Women from Violence – HRW Hungary Backs Out of International […]

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 and human rights: compilation (April and May uptade)

Politics in the Time of Corona: Anti-Asian Racism: A Feature of the COVID-19 Pandemic (Hosted by Jadaliyya Co-Editors Noura Erakat and Bassam Haddad) – Jadaliyya Complaints of racism mar China’s coronavirus response – Al Jazeera COVID-19 updates – IDS Respect Rights in COVID-19 Response – Human Rights Watch Governments Should Respect Rights in COVID-19 Surveillance […]

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 […]

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 […]

Anti-gender politics in Latin America

SPW is pleased to announce the collection Anti-gender Politics in Latin America, comprised of 9 case studies from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay and Uruguay, a regional study on the effects of the debate held by the Organization of American States, and an article that traces a genealogy of the religious […]

India anti-muslims pogrom: news, analysis and condemnation

“The violence unleashed against Muslims in Delhi by armed Hindu mobs during President Donald Trump’s visit to India is a portent and a lesson. […] More than an echo of the past, the recent violence in Delhi is a lesson”. Read SPW’s compilation.