Abortion in Brazil: a matter of life and death
Originally published on The Guardian on 01/02/2015. Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/01/abortion-in-brazil-a-matter-of-life-and-death The day after Jandyra went for an abortion her body was found mutilated beyond recognition.
Egyptian Court Acquits 26 Men Charged With “Debauchery”
A Cairo court acquitted 26 men of charges of participating in a gay “sex party” at a public bathhouse in December. Click here, here and here
El Salvador: Pardon for woman jailed for miscarriage, a triumph of justice
Originally published by The Amnesty International on 22/01/2015. Available at: https://www.amnesty.org/en/articles/news/2015/01/el-salvador-pardon-woman-jailed-miscarriage-triumph-justice/ 22 January 2015, 00:00 UTC A pardon granted by El Salvador’s Parliamentary Assembly to a
Canada’s Flawed Sex Trade Law
Originally published on NYT on 20/01/2015. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/21/opinion/canadas-flawed-sex-trade-law.html By JULIE KAYE JAN. 20, 2015 Photo CreditMark Blinch/The Canadian Press, via Associated Press EDMONTON,
Scott Long: Dozens arrested for “perversion” in a huge raid in Cairo
Originally published on Paper Bird on 08/12/2014. Available at: Taken from: http://paper-bird.net/2014/12/08/dozens-arrested-cairo/ At about 10 PM last night, December 7, police carried out a massive raid on ahammam
Letter to the Editor from members of the LGBTIQ community
Members of the Indian LGBTQI community issued an open letter to the editors of Bangalore Mirror, after the journal reported the arrest of a married man
Unsafe abortion: another facet of femicide in Latin America
Originally published on CLAM on 29/10/2014. Available at: http://www.clam.org.br/EN/destaque/conteudo.asp?cod=11878 Every day women die of unsafe, illegal abortions. Two recent deaths provoked uproar in Brazil.Elisângela Barbosa, a
Sexual and reproductive rights global landscapes in September 2014
One main highlight of the period concerns the politics of abortion in Brazil. Despite the tragic deaths of two women caused by illegal and unsafe
Working Paper No. 4 – Senegal: homophobia and Islamic political manipulation, by Codou Bop
Check out the Working Paper Senegal: homophobia and Islamic political manipulation by Codou Bop, a Senegalese journalist. She develops a particularly sharp insight analysis about on
As Women Die from Illegal Abortions in Brazil, Presidential Candidates Remain Silent
By Lucy Jordan September 25, 2014 | 8:05 pm In late August, a 27-year-old woman named Jandira dos Santos Cruz went to a bus station