Sexual politics round up in 2019
The year of 2019 has finished and, as traditionally, SPW offers our readers and followers a compilation of the main facts, trends, setbacks and victories in gender and sexuality politics that marked the year and point to the challenges ahead in 2020. TRENDS & FACTS January and February Highlights #GlobalPolicyArenas The UN Committee on Human […]
Read moreSpecial issue of the SRHM on ICPD25: Accelerating accountability for SRHR
Editorial Moving the ICPD agenda forward: challenging the backlash Gita Sen, Eszter Kismödi, Anneka Knutsson Commentaries The battle for sexual and reproductive health and rights for all Natalia Kanem A sexual and reproductive health and rights journey: from Cairo to the present Rebecca Brown, Eszter Kismödi, Rajat Khosla, Sapana Pradhan Malla, Lucy Asuagbor, Ximena AndiónIbanez, […]
Read moreSexual politics in October, November and early December 2019
HIGHLIGHTS Latin America: Politics in Trance In the period covered by this newsletter, Latin America has been the scene of three simultaneous elections – in Colombia, Argentina and Uruguay – with decidedly paradoxical results. Since September, we have seen major political eruptions: the Ecuadorian popular revolt against rising fuel prices, the vast and deep Chilean […]
Read moreHealth and Human Rights Journal: 25th anniversary special edition (Open access)
“I am delighted to let you know that as part of our Human Rights Day celebrations, we have just published the December 2019 issue of the Health and Human Rights Journal. We have plenty of reason to celebrate this issue – it marks our 25th year of publishing since Jonathan Mann launched the Journal in 1994.” […]
Read moreThe 2019 election in Uruguay: a new relation of forces
by Santiago Puyol The elections held in Uruguay on Sunday, October 27th, represented the greatest news for the Uruguayan political system fifteen years after the victory of the left-wing coalition Frente Amplio in the 2004 elections. For the first time since its victory, the government party lost Parliamentary majority, registering its lowest vote in the […]
Read moreDésordre dans le genre, chaos dans la nation?
Au sein du Festival des Libertés, qui a eu lieu à Bruxelles, Belgique, la coordinateur du SPW, Sonia Corrêa, a participé du débat Désordre dans le genre, chaos dans la nation?. La montée au pouvoir de dirigeants conservateurs s’accompagne d’une résurgence de mesures prônant un ordre sexuel traditionnel. Au nom de la “tradition” ou de […]
Read moreChile Uprising: A Call for Dignity
Jaime Barrientos, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile. Manuel Cárdenas, Escuela de Psicología, Universidad Valparaíso, Chile. In Chile, at the beginning of October 2019, we were led to believe that we lived in a paradise. In fact, President Sebastián Piñera recently described the country as an oasis in the middle of the Latin American […]
Read moreThree Cards and a Joker: Bolsonaro and the Marielle Case
by Isabela Kalil The Context On October 29, 2019, Jornal Nacional (the main Brazilian television newspaper, broadcast by Rede Globo) reported that the name of Brazil’s current president, Jair Bolsonaro, appeared in the investigation into the murder of Councilwoman Marielle Franco (PSOL). Marielle was assassinated in a drive-by execution in the city of Rio […]
Read moreSexual politics in September 2019
September 28 – “Abortion is a Health Issue” was the theme of this year’s International Safe Abortion Day, widely celebrated around the world (see compilation). On this occasion, a letter forwarded by the International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion gathered signatures from around the world, including Brazil. The letter repudiated attempts to restrict […]
Read moreAntigender politics from May to August 2019
We start this announcement recalling that, before May 2019, two major antigender events have taken place that are worth revisiting because of their potential subsequent ripple effects in Europe and Latin America. The World Congress of Families – The 2019 edition of the World Family Congress (WCF) was held in Verona (Italy) in the last […]
Read moreSexual politics in May and June 2019
#StopTheBans – Thousands of demonstrators marched in more than 500 cities across the US on May, 21th to protect abortion rights after Alabama state house passed, on May 15th, the strictest provision in the country (see a compilation) – which bans abortion at any stage of pregnancy, with an exception only for when a woman’s health is at […]
Read moreUproar and Perversity: Gender and Sexuality in the Vortex of Politics
by Sonia Corrêa A few days before completing the symbolic mark of Jair Messias Bolsonaro’s – or JMB’s – first 100 days of government, consecrated in western democracies as the first moment of fair evaluation for a beginning administration, JMB said that he was not born to be president, but rather to be a military […]
Read morePermanent War, Decreasing Popularity: What Will Come Next?
by Fábio Grotz A continuous state of war driven by the government is what drives the speech and activities of actors engaged in the redemptive mission to “transform and purify” Brazil. The electorate, however (with exception of the faithful nucleus of supporters of the current president), seems increasingly to not believe in this revolution that […]
Read moreSexual politics in Brazil: Almost 180 days into the JMB Administration
With great pleasure, SPW offers an assessment of sexuality and gender politics, including abortion rights, in the first (almost) six months of the Jair Messias Bolsonaro (JMB) government. The essays written by Sonia Corrêa, Fábio Grotz, Rajnia de Vito and Marco Aurélio Prado cover the troubled, cacophonic and warlike Brazilian political landscape, as well as […]
Read moreGender and Abortion Rights in the Congressional Scene
by Sonia Corrêa What has been happening, since January, in the Brazilian Congress regarding abortion rights and gender must be situated in a longer political. The current real or potential setbacks in these two fields are not to be seen simply an effect of the JMB government. Rather, in these domains, the regressive trend, have […]
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