TAG: criminalization
News and analysis on HIV/AIDS criminalisation
Crosstalk: HIV and linking across areas of criminalisation – Susana T. Fried – openDemocracy
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Myth vs. Reality: evaluating the Brazilian response to HIV in 2016
The Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA) released today (20/07) “Myth vs. Reality: evaluating the Brazilian response to HIV in 2016”. The publication was showed in the Global Village, Durban, South Africa. Using simple and objective language, the publication offers up hard-hitting analyses in order to contribute to the reconstruction of the Brazilian response to the epidemic, […]
Read moreThere’s an economic cost to homophobia — and the numbers are staggering
DURBAN, South Africa — Homophobia exacts a devastating emotional toll. But according to Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS researcher Erik Lamontagne, discrimination against lesbian, gay and bisexual communities carries a substantial economic cost, too. A combination of factors, including discriminatory hiring practices, unequal pay and shorter life expectancies, mean LGB people may […]
Read moreUN Human Rights Committee recommends abortion law reform in Argentina
The UN Human Rights Committee has released a report slamming the state of abortion rights in Argentina and criticizing President Mauricio Macri’s decision to strike down key articles of the Broadcast Media Law and its subsequent effects on freedom of expression on 15 July.
Read moreEl Salvador: the world’s most punitive anti-women, anti-abortion laws
Twenty-one members of the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena) in El Salvador submitted a motion on 11 July to the parliament for debate on 14 July to reform Article 133 of the Penal Code, increasing the penalty for women who cause or consent to an abortion from up to eight years in prison to a minimum of 30 years and a maximum of 50 years.
Read moreKohl’s new issue: Beyond Victims and Savages – The Complexities of Violence, Resistance, and Pleasure
Going beyond the dichotomy of victims and savages entails a nuanced understanding of violence. Such an understanding perceives mainstream violence as indivisible from other paradigms of large-scale oppression – hegemony, socioeconomic injustice, institutionalization, neoliberalism, occupation… It also accounts for the normalized violence we live on a daily basis, in silent acts of coercion, harassment, bullying, and self-damage, and the ways in which they are informed by macro instances of violence, and vice versa.
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Sexual politics in June 2016
The proposal launched in May by the LAC 5 countries for the creation of a Special Mandate on Human Rights and Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (reported by SPW) has taken its course. On June 30th at the 32 Session of the UN Human Rights Council a resolution was adopted that establishes the mandate of […]
Read moreResearch Study in Canada Shows Needs of Rural Sex Workers
On the 20th of May in Brantford, Ontario (Canada), a report was released by Dr. Stacey Hannem and the organisation REAL that assesses the needs of rural sex workers. The report is called “Let’s Talk About Sex Work: Report of the REAL working group for Brantford, Brant, Haldimand and Norfolk. Assessing the Needs of Sex […]
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Brazil in crisis: Another update
In June, 2016, as the impeachment of Dilma Roussef followed its course, it became increasingly evident that one of the strongest motivations of the power maneuvering that led to the April parliamentary coup was the interest of many of those supporting this move to strangle the ongoing investigations on corruption.
Read moreThe creation of a UN SOGI mandate
On June 30th the Human Rights Council, after a complex and difficult negotiation has voted a resolution that establishes the mandate of and Independent Expert on Human Rights and Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. In, May SPW has reported on this upcoming process and now we offer a brief compilation of statements and first analyses […]
Read moreUnited Nations Makes History on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
In a defining vote, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on “Protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation, and gender identity”, to mandate the appointment of an Independent Expert on the subject.
Read moreThe UN Has Voted To Create Its First LGBT Rights Watchdog
The person appointed to this new role will be responsible for monitoring “violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.”
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