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.
Monsters Under the Bed
A series of memes and messages were recently circulated throughout the continent with the aim of alerting people to an alleged movement that would be seeking to normalize pedophilia. What is behind this strategy? How and from whom should we protect children? by Andrea Dominguez In groups of neighbors on WhatsApp, everyone is familiar, reasonable, […]
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Decolonization and Afro-feminism – Book Launch Invitation
Sylvia Tamale, author of Decolonization and Afro-Feminism, will be discussing her new book with Charmaine Pereira, writer and feminist scholar in Abuja, Nigeria. Host: Firoze Manji, Publisher, Daraja Press – on YouTube September 24, 2002 9:00 am Eastern Time (Ottawa) 2:00 pm Nigeria Time 4:00 pm East Africa Time Why do so many Africans […]
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Rosalind Petchesky wins the Charles A. McCoy Award
SPW dearly congratulates our friend and Steering Committee member, Rosalind Petchesky, for receiving the New Political Science Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award, a more than well-deserved recognition. Rosalind Petchesky, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Political Science, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, is the 2020 Charles McCoy Career Achievement Awardee. […]
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The case of the girl from Espírito Santo: Is this a new turning point in the long journey for abortion rights in Brazil?
by Sonia Corrêa Since 1940, Brazilian law has permitted abortion in cases of rape, and sexual intercourse with persons under 14 years old is automatically defined as rape. In 1999, the Brazilian Ministry of Health’s issued the Technical Protocol orienting Care for Victims of Sexual Violence (MoH Protocol), considered by WHO as a main global […]
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Live with Gita Sen | Inequality, Biopower and Health: a perfect storm
The Institute of Public Health Bengaluru invites all for the IPH Annual Oration Day Series. On Friday, August 28th, Prof. Gita Sen will deliver a talk on “Inequality, Biopower and Health: a perfect storm“. Friday, August 28th At 4pm to 5pm (IST) Prof. Gita Sen is the Director of the Ramalingaswami Centre on Equity and […]
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Call for Papers | Global Public Health’s Special Issue – DEADLINE EXTENDED (15th October)
Global Public Health Special Issue: (Re)imagining Research, Activism, and Rights at the Intersections of Sexuality, Health, and Social Justice Guest Editors: Debolina Dutta, Laura Murray, Elsa Oliveira, and Richard Parker In times such as now, when so much of our lives, bodies, thoughts, expressions, and ideas are under threat, the act of critical re-imagination becomes […]
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Open Letter addressed to Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng
Rio de Janeiro, August 21st, 2020 Open Letter addressed to Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng as the new United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. Dear Dr. Mofokeng The mandate you now hold was created in 2002 by a Brazilian initiative. […]
Read moreA Tribute to Katherine Cuellar Bravo
In May 2020, Katherine Cuellar Bravo, a young Colombian researcher from the public health field, has passed away. She was responsible for the Colombian case study of the Global Emergency in Health, Zika, and Abortion Research in Latin America, led by the International Development Department of the London School of Economics in association with researchers […]
Read moreAgamben and the pandemic: critiques and responses
Giorgio Agamben: The Plague was Already Present – Critical Legal Thinking Giorgio Agamben: Contagion – Enough 14 COVID-19 and the neoliberal state of exception – Al Jazeera Philosophy and Pandemic in the Postdigital Era: Foucault, Agamben, Žižek – NCBI States of Emergency, Metaphors of Virus, and COVID-19 – Verso Books Giorgio Agamben’s Coronavirus Cluelessness – […]
Read moreIESOGI Report on Conversion Therapy
“Conversion therapy” practices Key findings PDF: English | Spanish | Portuguese Full Report PDF: English
Read moreViolence against LGBT during the pandemic
PROTECTING THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LGBTI PEOPLE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC – Amnesty International LGBTQ Inequality and Vulnerability in the Pandemic – HRW COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated stigma, discrimination against LGBT people: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – Online Citizen Asia Violence Against the Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Community in 2020 – Human Rights […]
Read moreA catch in the US Supreme Court decisions
US Supreme Court LGBT worker ruling has a giant loophole – Al Jazeera Devil in the detail of SCOTUS ruling on workplace bias puts LGBTQ rights and religious freedom on collision course – The Conversation Supreme Court clashes over meaning of ‘sex’ in LGBT discrimination cases – CNBC The problem with that big gay rights […]
Read moreCOVID-19 in prisons: compilations of news
North America US The Coronavirus Crisis Inside Prisons Won’t Stay Behind Bars – NY Times Stop Unnecessary Arrests to Slow Coronavirus Spread – NY Times Coronavirus Cases Rise Sharply in Prisons Even as They Plateau Nationwide – NY Times COVID-19 in Correctional and Detention Facilities — United States, February–April 2020 – CDC Large Numbers at […]
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Anti-gender activist Sara Winter arrested
On Monday, June 15th, anti-gender activist Sara Winter was arrested in Brasilia in a Federal Police operation. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes issued a preventive arrest warrant against Winter and five other members of the “300 of Brazil” group at the request of the deputy attorney general, Humberto Jacques de Medeiros, as part of […]
Read moreGender in the New Vatican Directory for Catechesis
A widespread orientation of what is presented today under the name of gender, calls into question the revealed fact: «man and woman He created them». According to such a position, gender identity would no longer be an original given that the person must accept and fill with meaning, but rather a social construction that is […]
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