TAG: Brazil

English written articles about the deaths of Jandira and Elizângela

Brazil’s Criminal Abortion Laws Are Killing Women – Reality Check Aborto clandestino en Brasil provoca muertes trágicas – Diário Rotativo (México) Stigma of Brazil abortions in spotlight in case of missing woman – The Global and Mail (Canadá) As Women Die from Illegal Abortions in Brazil, Presidential Candidates Remain Silent – News Vice Brazil election […]

Abortion and the general elections: a chronicle of announced tragedies

Jandira Cruz and Elisângela Barbosa died after resorting to unsafe clandestine abortion clinics. Their deaths are now inevitably interwoven with the 2014 intense and complex electoral process, which began with the tragic death of presidential candidate Eduardo Campos in August. Four years ago, in the course of the 2010 presidential elections, abortion, somehow unexpectedly, became […]

AIDS Prevention missing in the 2014 Brazil World Cup – ABIA expresses its views on the findings of the World Cup study released by the Observatory of Prostitution

The Brazilian Interdisciplinary Association for Aids (ABIA) expresses its concern about the results of the survey – released in partnership with the Observatory of prostitution -, which assessed the effects of the 2014 World Cup on the Brazilian prostitution landscape.

Brazilian World Cup impact on prostitution and sex trade

The Observatory of Prostitution has published a report revealing the impacts on prostitution and sex trade arising from Brazilian World Cup during June and July. It turns out that the vast majority of sex workers considered the event to be bad for the business. The report also analyses the actions of police, governmental organizations and […]

Sexual and reproductive rights issued in the last days at global, Latin American and Brazilian scene

At the International Conference on Human Rights (7 to 10 July 2013), the main outcome was the final report, which represents a unique platform to address human rights commitments and to identify opportunities to strengthen the operational links between human rights and implementation of the Programme of Action, with a particular emphasis on sexual and […]

Our sexual and reproductive rights are not negotiable!

As the pace of Brazilian presidential election campaign accelerates once again abortion rights are caught into the eye of the storm. Last week, the Ministry of Health suspended a recently adopted ordinance aimed at precisely identifying abortion procedures in those cases permitted by law and defining new levels of financial coverage for these procedures. Beatriz […]

Brazil: the abortion frontline

In Brazil, not surprisingly, abortion has once again flared up in the path towards the next Brazilian presidential election campaign. The presidential candidate of the PSB, Eduardo Campos, said during a Catholic mass in the Basilica of Aparecida do Norte, that he is against abortion and that Brazilian law as it is is not to be […]

ABIA disseminates a statement repudiating police action against sex workers in Niterói (RJ)

The Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association vehemently repudiates the grave human rights violations committed on May 23rd by civil police against more than 200 sex workers and residents in a building in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro. Sex workers reported that during the invasion, conducted by police without a warrant, violations including robbery, assault, and rape occurred, […]

Butterflies: 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.

Brazil’s abortion nightmare: Why one desperate woman lied about rape

Article by Aljazeera highlights the difficult choices Brazilian women are forced to make when trying to end a pregnancy in the country with the largest Roman Catholic population in the world. Here.

Forcing a woman to have a caesarean is an assault we won’t tolerate

Read The Guardian’s article about the case of a Brazilian women taken by police to have a cesarean, despite her will to have a vaginal birth. Here.

Brazilian Government Gives Monetary Reparations As Part of Historic United Nations Maternal Death Case

In a ceremony today, the Brazilian government gave monetary reparations to Maria Lourdes da Silva Pimentel, the mother of Alyne—an Afro-Brazilian woman who did not receive immediate medical attention for her pregnancy complications and later died. The reparations are part of the first United Nations ruling on human rights violations in her maternal death case. […]