At about 10 PM last night, December 7, police carried out a massive raid on ahammam (bathhouse) in the Ramsis area of Cairo, not far from the main railway station. They arrested many men — dozens, [...]Read more
SPW recommends Transnational LGBT Activism, by Ryan Thoreson, in which the author discusses how the idea of LGBT human rights is defined by international activists who establish what and who [...]Read more
SPW recommends Aziza Ahmed’s article – published on Columbia Journal of Gender and law – “Rugged vaginas” and “vulnerable rectums”: the sexual identity, epidemiology, and law of the global hiv [...]Read more
SPW recommends the article Proposed declassification of disease categories related to sexual orientation in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11), written by Susan D Cochran [...]Read more
The English version of the Federation for Women and Family Planning (Poland) report summarizing 20 years of Poland’s strict anti-abortion law is now available. It covers legal aspects and analysis [...]Read more
Posted on 24 June 2014 Why is the Human Rights Campaign hanging out with the friends of homophobe Gary Bauer? Some background: HRC, the richest US gay group, has gone international. [...]Read more
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 more
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 [...]Read more
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” [...]Read more
Read "INTRODUCTION: Sexual and reproductive rights at the 2012 Universal Periodic Review of Brazil", written for the SPW Newsletter N. 12, based on analysis of Magaly Pazello, from EMERGE-Communication and [...]Read more
Read "The Inter-American Human Rights System is under threat: Implications for the Sexuality and Human Rights Agenda", written by Marcelo Ferreyra, Latin America and Caribbean Coordinator at Global Initiative for [...]Read more
Read the article "Provisional Measure 557 (MP 557) has been archived, but the matter is not resolved," written by Ana Maria Costa and Luís Bernardo Delgado Bieber, on the creation [...]Read more
Scott Long published at the blog A paper bird the article Resources for the unbelievers, on aid conditionality and LGBT rights. A series of contents regarding aid conditionality and LGBT [...]Read more
For the SPW Newsletter No 11, Lilián Abracinskas, director of Mujer y Salud en Uruguay (MYSU), wrote the article "Abortion law reform in Uruguay: The state of art", presenting the [...]Read more
