TAG: Brazil

“Female Condoms” report updated

The Universal Access to Female Condom Joint Programs has just published an up-date report on Female Condoms now available in the global market or yet under study and waiting from approval. In 2011 ABIA in partnership with UNFPA and the Brazilian Department of HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis has published an assessment of female condom availability and distribution […]

Read some information on the recent Brazilian context on regressions in sexual and reproductive politics.

As to more fully grab what is happening in Brazil

Read the new IDS Working Paper The Changing Faces of Citizen Action: A Mapping Study through an ‘Unruly’ Lens, which speaks of Brazilian contemporary experience of citizenship struggles.

Letter Repudiating the Ministry of Health’s Censorship of the Campaign about Prostitution and HIV/AIDS

Read the “Letter Repudiating the Ministry of Health’s Censorship of the Campaign about Prostitution and HIV/AIDS”, written by the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association – ABIA, after the Ministry of Health announced its censorship of the campaign about prostitution and HIV/AIDS launched on International Prostitutes Day (June 2nd).

Sexual assaults in Rio de Janeiro raised fears for women’s safety ahead of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics

Brazil: Sexual assaults in Rio de Janeiro have cast a light on class differences in the city and have raised fears for women’s safety ahead of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics. Read more.

Head of Commission for Human Rights and Minorities in Brazil’s lower house of parliament accused of homophobia and racism

Brazil: The Commission for Human Rights and Minorities in Brazil’s lower house of parliament elected an evangelical pastor from the Christian Social party to be the president. The Congressman Marco Feliciano is accused of homophobia and racism and outcries has spread to street around the country. Read more.

Civil Society follow up on the crisis Brazilian AIDS Response

Brazil: Read the “Civil Society follow up on the crisis Brazilian AIDS Response,” published after the Ministry of Health Note of Clarification in opposition to a public note written by Brazilian NGOs with concerns about the funds for AIDS programs.

Brazilian Ministry of Health Note of Clarification

Read the “Brazilian Ministry of Health Note of Clarification” regarding the Brazlian NGOs note on the funds that had been originally transferred by the Union for the exclusive use of AIDS programs, but were not used until december 2011.

Transcription of the Brazilian NGOs original note

Read the “Transcription of the Brazilian NGOs original note,” with concerns on the ordinance published by the Ministry of Health of that allows states and municipalities to use, for “general health purposes,” those funds that had been originally transferred by the Union for the exclusive use of AIDS programs, but were not used until december 2011.

Interview: Camila Asano

For the Newsletter N. 12, SPW interviewed Camila Asano, Coordinator of Foreign Policy and Human Rights at Conectas Human Rights, who participated of the second round of the Universal Periodical Review (UPR) of Brazil, at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), in Geneva, in May 2012. In this interview, Ms. Asano analyzed this mechanism for the human rights, explaining how this process works and highlighting recommendations to Brazil, challenges and perspectives. Read more.