TAG: Brazil

Brazil Takes Step to Implement Historic United Nations Ruling in Maternal Death Case

United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) Approves Monetary Reparations Agreement with Brazilian Government for the Mother of Alyne da Silva Pimentel. Click here to learn more.

World Cup 2014: is Brazil’s sex industry crackdown a threat to human rights?

Read The Guardian’s article about Brazilian authorities attempts to sanitise the country’s image by repressing sex-related businesses. Click here.

The Security Archipelago

The Introduction chapter of Paul Amar book, “The Security Archipelago”, has been published online by Duke University Press, for free access. Feel free to check it out and circulate the link!! SPW strongly recommends!

The HIV epidemic and human rights violations in Brazil

In an article published at Journal of the International AIDS Society, Chris Beyrer and Monica Malta highlight setbacks on the Brazilian political and financial commitment of National AIDS Programm. This is the first time that regressions in the Brazilian response to HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment are discussed in academic article published in English. Click here […]

Before Global Games, Rio Is Fighting to Dim Red Light

In article, New York Times discusses aspects of Rio de Janeiro policy on the organization of Olympic Games: brothles are being captured by an atmosphere of moral panic. Read more.

Report on the Human Rights Situation of Afro-Brazilian Trans Women

A report on the Situation of Afro-Brazilian Trans Women was presented during a thematic hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights last week in Washington D.C. It was done in collaboration with our partner organization Rede de Negros e Negras LGBT of Brazil and some Trans organizations from Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. […]

Global and regional issues highlighted by SPW on October

In October 2013 our main themes were the following: On October 10, activist Gabriela Leite, who devoted her life to fight for the rights of prostitutes, has left us. The death of Gabriela has reverberated in Brazil and worldwide because her life trajectory and historical leadership but also because how the claims she has raised […]

Dossier Gabriela Leite

The death of Gabriela Leite, on October 10, meant a great loss for the struggle for the rights of prostitutes, and sexual rights brodaly speaking, in Brazil. Throughout her life Gabriela embodied the struggle for freedom, non discrimination and the right to pleasure and happinness. As a tribute to Gabriela, SPW gathered articles and notes […]

“The End(s) of Activism? Sexual Rights and the Brazilian Workers Party”

Read the article, by SPW partner Raphael de la Dehesa, in which he discuss brazilian sexual and reprodutive rights landscape. Although being hailed as a global leader on these issues, national context draws another image. Click here to read it.

Brazilian bill legalizes and regulates prostitution

The political history of prostitution in Brazil has been winding. In recent years, the hegemony of discourses on sexual exploitation and trafficking for sexual purposes has led the debate once more to the realm of moral panics. However, a bill proposed by lawmaker Jean Wyllys (PSOL – RJ) intends to resume the discussion in pluralistic […]

The meaning of silence

During his apostolic journey to Rio de Janeiro for the 28th World Youth Day, Pope Francis did not repeat the Vatican’s old rhetoric. Instead, he remained silent about sexual issues like abortion and same-sex marriage. But to what extent the Pope’s remarks on some topics and his silence on others will come to represent significant […]

“Maternal Mortality: Implementation and Accountability: Guidance on Using a Human Rights Approach in the Context of the Post 2015 Agenda”

In this event to be held at the UN Human Rights Council, the Center for Reproductive Rights will speak about the Alyne Case in relation to which Brazil has been considered by the CEDAW Committee to have infringed the principles of the convention in 2011. Past two years the Brazilian state has not yet responded […]