Around the world
Since its launching, in 2006, the Sexuality Policy Watch website has circulated relevant information on sexual politics trends, events and actors around the world. This investment has resulted in a rich archive of global and national sexual politics.
One main feature of this database is that it is not confined to specific areas or issues. It encompasses information on abortion, sexual and reproductive rights, sex work, sexual violence, gender and women’s rights, HIV and AIDs; and emphasizes materials and analysis that contribute to locate these issues in relation to the political economy of sexuality. Since 2013, key facts, events and trends are selected and highlighted in monthly announcements.
Bolsonaro’s Brazil Falls Behind on COVID-19 Vaccine Race
Brazil Hits 7 Million Cases With Infections Picking Up Speed – Bloomberg Brazil’s president rejects COVID-19 vaccine, undermining a century of progress toward universal inoculation – The Conversation ‘Playing With Lives’: Brazil’s Covid Vaccine Plan Is Mired in Chaos – NY Times Bolsonaro branded ‘homicidally negligent’ over Brazil’s vaccine planning – The Guardian COVID cases […]
Read moreCOVID-19: Re-Capturing Concept of Syndemic
Offline: COVID-19 is not a pandemic – The Lancet The COVID-19 syndemic is not global: context matter – The Lancet One stillbirth every 16 seconds, and COVID-19 could make it worse – Al Jazeera Women grieve stillborn babies as COVID-19 spreads in India – Al Jazeera World caught in “syndemic” of chronic diseases and COVID-19, […]
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Pope Francis discursive games
Since 2013, Pope Francis I has been making unexpected comments about homosexuality, which usually call for compassion and tolerance. While these speech acts erupt here and there, the flow of water to the mill of Catholic conservatism follows its course.[1] A few months after his election and subsequently to World Youth Day in Rio de […]
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Bergoglio and Inclusive Capitalism: A New Front for the Vatican?
The Council for Inclusive Capitalism with the Vatican, A New Alliance Of Global Business Leaders, Launches Today – PR Newswire Council for Inclusive Capitalism launches partnership with Vatican – Catholic News Agency Introducing the Council for Inclusive Capitalism with the Vatican – Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism The Pope Blesses Business Plans – NY Times Pope […]
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Vatican Politics: Dispersed Events in the Same Plot
A new encyclical signed by pope Francis I was published in early October, 2020. Entitled Fratelli Tutti, the new papal exhortation was widely acclaimed by voices located across the political spectrum, as well as by the mainstream press. Two months later, in early December, a new policy platform established the Council for Inclusive Capitalism with […]
Read moreOffline: COVID-19 – a crisis of power
Read Richard Horton’s essay on biopolitics during COVID-19
Read morePope Francis and civil union “support”: compilation
Vatican says Pope’s comments on same-sex civil unions were taken out of context – CNN Vatican clarifies pope’s comments on homosexual unions – DW Vatican breaks silence, explains Pope Francis’ civil union comments – NBC News The intrigue behind Pope Francis’ “bombshell” comments on same-sex civil unions – CBS Pope Francis Supports Same-Sex Civil Unions, […]
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Protect Trans Kids: Bar Dr Sybrand de Vaal from psychiatric practice
Investigate Dr. Sybrand de Vaal with regards to promoting harmful psychiatric practices with respect to Trans (including non-binary) children. This includes: * Examine his competency to practice as a registered health professional; * Restrict his practice in relation to where judgement is required and influences his biases; and * In particular, affirm that he should […]
Read moreBrazil’s review by the CEDAW: contributions
Contributions to the List of Issues Prior to Reporting of the review of Brazil by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) Date of submission: 12 October 2020 Submitted by: Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS (ABIA) / Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW) Centro pela Justiça e o Direito Internacional (CEJIL) […]
Read moreBrazil in the UPR: Shadow Report presented in 2019
The SPW is pleased to offer the part-time report produced by civil society regarding the country’s assessment in the UN Universal Periodic Review 2017. The report presented here responds to the partial report presented by Brazil at the 42nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council. The document has been extensively criticized by organizations in […]
Read moreUS Supreme Court Succession: what’s at stake and comes next after RBG?
Majority says winner of presidential election should nominate next Supreme Court justice, Post-ABC poll finds – Washington Post Trump’s Selection of Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court Is Part of a Larger Antidemocratic Project – The New Yorker There Should Be No Doubt Why Trump Nominated Amy Coney Barrett – New Yorker Barrett Clerked […]
Read moreAmnesty International’s Updated Abortion Policy: FAQs
We have updated our position to align with evolving international human rights law and standards, to make it as inclusive as possible, and to ensure it addresses the full range of barriers that impede access to safe abortion and the full range of human rights violations due to criminalization of abortion.
Read moreJudith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual times”
Thirty years ago, the philosopher Judith Butler*, now 64, published a book that revolutionised popular attitudes on gender. Gender Trouble, the work she is perhaps best known for, introduced ideas of gender as performance. It asked how we define “the category of women” and, as a consequence, who it is that feminism purports to fight for. Today, it is a foundational text on any gender studies reading list, and its arguments have long crossed over from the academy to popular culture.
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Pedophilia – more of the same?
by Sonia Corrêa & Rajnia de Vito Recently, references to pedophilia have increased vertiginously in Brazilian social networks and the press. At first glance, this phenomenon might be attributed to the unwarranted accusations against YouTuber Felipe Neto, who bluntly publicized his opposition to Bolsonaro. Not only did he publicize it, but he managed to be […]
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Pedophilia, moral panic and abortion rights in Latin America and Brazil
After six months into the pandemic, a striking feature of the condition under which we are working is that time has not expanded, as initially many of us had predicted, but rather shrank. Although we are fixed in one place, the complete virtualization of work and sociability has triggered […]
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