Working Paper, No.1 – Global Implications of U.S. Domestic and International Policies on Sexuality, by Françoise Girard
The SPW report, “Global Implications of U.S. Domestic and International Policies on Sexuality”, written by Françoise Girard, was launched at the San Juan high level meeting (2004) organized by ECLAC. Read it here.
Read moreButterflies: a video by Vagner Almeida
Buttlerflies is an awarwed video directed by Vagner Almeida documenting the lives of young gay men and travesties in the poor outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.
Read moreThe 2006 International AIDS Conference in Toronto – Interview 7
These short vídeos document activities Sexuality Policy Watch has organized at the 2006 International AIDS Conference in Toronto: a workshop to discuss the preliminar fidings of the global research effort that resulted in SexPolitics: Reports from the Frontlines and a debate on Sexual Rights at the Global Village Esses vídeos documentam atividades realizadas pelo SPW […]
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Sexual and reproductive rights global landscape in March and early April 2014
Sexual and reproductive rights global landscape in March and early April 2014 During March and early April, Brazil was under the spotlight in terms of women’s reproductive health and rights. The Brazilian government has finally implemented the monetary and symbolic reparations determined by the CEDAW Committee in its judgement of the Alyne da Silva Pimentel […]
Read moreScott Long: Privacy tips for sex subversives: Ways to protect your information and yourself
Privacy tips for sex subversives: Ways to protect your information and yourself Read Scott Long’s article about privacy of human rights activists. Click here.
Read moreScott Long: Uganda, the World Bank, and LGBT rights: Winners and losers
Uganda, the World Bank, and LGBT rights: Winners and losers SPW recommends Scott Long’s article about World Bank delaying a schedule loan to Uganda aimed at improving health care. The delaying was motivated by the approval of the “Anti-Homossexuality Bill”. Scott reflects on the role of the World Bank in the developing world for the […]
Read moreSexual and Reproductive Rights Global Landscape in January and February 2014
Dear friends, Around the World During January and February 2014, SPW has watched the development of anti-homosexuality bills in Nigeria and Uganda, as well as of anti-prostitution cleansing in Brazil and crackdown and China. In the same period, however, there have been positive new in relation to abortion rights in Bolivia and Uruguay (in Spanish). […]
Read moreGender, Justice, and Neoliberal Transformations – new issue of Scholar & Feminist Online
This new issue of The Scholar & Feminist Online, edited by Elizabeth Bernstein and Janet R. Jakobsen, forges new ground by weaving together issues of gender and sexuality, usually sidelined in conversations about neoliberalism, with questions of the economy and political processes. Emerging out of a 2012 international workshop on the mutual imbrication of economic, […]
Read moreAdvances and setbacks in sexual and reproductive right’s landscape in 2013
During the year of 2013, sexual and reproductive rights were threatened by state decisions in various places around the world. At the year’s end, three major legal regressions were registered in the sexuality and human rights landscape. On December 11th, the Indian Supreme Court restored the criminalization of homosexuality by nullifying a Superior Court 2009 […]
Read moreGlobal landscape on sexual and reproductive rights in November 2013
November was marked by two relevant facts in the sexual and reproductive rights landscape: the financing of Human Rights Campaign to promote LGBT rights and same sex y marriage around the world and the prroval by the French Assembly of a new bill criminalizing clients of prostitution.. In early November, Scott Long wrote about the […]
Read moreScott Long: Cultural Cold Wars: Where “traditional values” came from
Cultural Cold Wars: Where “traditional values” came from See Scott Long’s HQ on the place of sexual rights in what he calls “Cultural Cold Wars”. “Will “divisions over sexual orientation” be “the new Berlin Wall”?, askes Long. Click here.
Read moreWorld facts highlighted by SPW in September 2013
During the month of September, Sexuality Policy Watch has followed the global landscape of sexual and reproductive rights. In the Latin American scene, we highlighted the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean,which is part of the review process that will culminate with the Cairo+20 Conference in 2014. We published […]
Read moreSPW Newsletter N.13 – July, 2013
SPW Newsletter No. 13 landscapes the implications of the new papacy of Francis the First for the sexual and reproductive rights in Latin America. We invited five SPW partners: Daniel Jones, Diana Maffía and Juan Marco Vaggione, from Argentina; Edgar Ruiz, from Mexico; and Maria José Rosado, from Brazil to share their views on how this political shift at the Vatican will affect sexual politics in the region. We choose three authors from Argentina because we wanted critical assessments made by analysts more closely acquainted with Bergoglio’s trajectory and political style. Edgar Ruiz in his article provides a sweeping view of the new papacy from a wider Latin American perspective, and Maria Jose Rosado’s interview speaks more directly of the Brazilian context including concerns about the papal visit and its potential negative impacts.
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