Check out the Working Paper Senegal: homophobia and Islamic political manipulation by Codou Bop, a Senegalese journalist. She develops aed particularly sharp insight analysis about on the Senegalese episode, which [...]Read more
The position paper The Language of ‘Sexual Minorities’ and the Politics of Identity, written by Rosalind Petchesky, in collaboration with Sonia Corrêa, Ignacio Saiz and Hossam Baghat, SPW’s members, highlights [...]Read more
In 2007, the Pope’s visit to Brazil mobilized groups in opposition to the Vatican’s moral dogmatism. In support of these groups, SPW, in close collaboration with CLAM, has produced short [...]Read more
In late 2009, the World Economic Forum (WEF) launched its new report on the Global Gender Gap Index, which gained immediate visibility in both global and national media. In this [...]Read more
Inspired by local and international initiatives, SPW’s mission is twofold: to contribute to sexuality related global policy debates through strategic policy-oriented research and analysis projects, and to promote more effective [...]Read more
In the Working Paper The global context: Sexuality and geopolitics, find the following selected texts from SPW Newsletters N. 10 and N. 11: Reflecting on 2011 events: scattered notes on [...]Read more
Documents for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Second Cycle – Brazil In May 2012, the second cycle of the Brazilian UPR took place at the UN Human Rights Council. Access [...]Read more
SPW organized a series of Regional Dialogues on Sexuality and Geopolitics, to convene in Asia (Vietnam, April 2009), Latin America (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 2009) and Africa (Lagos, Nigeria, [...]Read more
Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW) is a global forum composed by researchers and activists from a wide range of countries and regions of the world. Constituted in 2002 as the International [...]Read more
“Sex is always political”, and its politicization involves the continual attempt to draw boundaries between “good” and “bad” sex, based on “hierarchies of sexual value” in religion, medicine, public policies [...]Read more
Co-Chairs Richard Parker, USA – Professor in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University, Director of Columbia University’s Center for Gender, Sexuality and Health and President of the Brazilian [...]Read more
SPW Working Paper N. 8 presents the remarkable analysis developed by Rosalind Petchesky, member of SPW Steering Committee, on the biopolitics of the militarized humanitarian responses to the Haiti 2010 [...]Read more
Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW) is a global forum composed of researchers and activists from a wide range of countries and regions of the world. Launched in 2002 as the International [...]Read more
NEW! Sexuality Policy Watch presents the final outcomes of the regional Dialogues in Asia, Latin America and Africa and of one inter-regional meeting that took place between 2009 and 2011 [...]Read more
