TAG: latin america
UN special envoy for HIV/AIDS pleads for removal of discriminatory laws in Trinidad and Tobago
The United Nations Secretary-General’s envoy for HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean, Dr Edward Greene, has pleaded for the removal of discriminatory immigration laws in Trinidad and Tobago that prohibit the entry of homosexuals. Read more on Caribbean News Now.
Read moreEcuador’s Left punishes women rights
By Manuela L. Picq* A debate on abortion suspended the voting on the new penal code in the Ecuadorian Congress this week. Congresswoman Soledad Buendía, from President Correa’s party Alianza PAIS, made a forceful move demanding that Article 149 of the Constitution legalizes abortion in cases of rape. Her motion was supported by congresswomen María […]
Read moreProstitution, love and market
Latin American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights brough interviews with scholars (Sealing Cheng and Thaddeus Blanchette) working on the connections between love, prostitution and market. Read the interview with Sealing Cheng (Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong). Read interview (in Portuguese) with Thaddeus Blanchette (Federal University of Rio de […]
Read moreSTOP THE GENOCIDE AGAINST TRANS WOMEN! STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST TRANS PEOPLE!
Organizations, associations and activists defending the human and civil law of trans people denounce generalized extreme violence and murders and impunity that trans people suffer by the virtue of being transgender around the world, especially at Latin America. Click here.
Read moreWorld facts highlighted by SPW on September
During the month of September, Sexuality Policy Watch has followed the global landscape of sexual and reproductive rights. In the Latin American scene, we highlighted the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean,which is part of the review process that will culminate with the Cairo+20 Conference in 2014. We published […]
Read moreSexuality, culture and politics – a south American reader
Latin American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights (CLAM) has published Sexuality, culture and politics – a south American reader, in which South American scholars explore the values, practices, knowledge, moralities and politics of sexuality in a variety of local contexts. Read more.
Read moreSexuality, culture and politics – a south American reader
Although mature and vibrant, Latin American scholarship on sexuality still remains largely invisible to a global readership. In this collection of articles translated from Portuguese and Spanish, published by Latin American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights (CLAM), South American scholars explore the values, practices, knowledge, moralities and politics of sexuality in a variety of […]
Read moreRegional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean 2013
The Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean ended on August 15, 2013 after country delegates agreed upon a groundbreaking document the “Montevideo Consensus On Population And Development” that fully reaffirms and goes beyond guidelines established by the Cairo Program of Action in 1994. Hundreds of civil society representatives […]
Read moreSalvadoran woman who sought abortion delivers baby after a C-section
El Salvador: Following an Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ determination, Salvadoran woman who sought abortion delivers baby after a C-section. Read more.
Read moreRegional Dialogues on the new UN resolution on SO&GI and human rights: The Brasilia Meeting
Read moreThe Inter-American Human Rights System is under threat: Implications for the Sexuality and Human Rights Agenda
Read “The Inter-American Human Rights System is under threat: Implications for the Sexuality and Human Rights Agenda”, written by Marcelo Ferreyra, Latin America and Caribbean Coordinator at Global Initiative for Sexuality and Human Rights – Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights, for the SPW Newsletter N. 12.
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