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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. […]

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Controversial installation marking World Art Day in Sweden

Sweden: On 15 April 2012, images above showing Sweden’s Minister of Culture, Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, cutting into a cake in the shape of a naked black woman have led to an outcry across the country and online. Read more.

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Judith Butler refused the Courage Award from the Berlin Pride

In 2010, June 19th, Judith Butler refused the Civil Courage Award of the Christopher Street Day Parade in Berlin, Germany, at the award ceremony, arguing that the parade had become too commercial, and was ignoring the problems of racism and the double discrimination suffered by homosexual or transsexual migrants. Read more.

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Echoing Butler’s refusal

By Rosalind Petchesky and Sonia Corrêa* Judith Butler’s refusal to receive the Berlin Christopher Street Day (Gay Pride) Civil Courage Prize echoed ideas we have discussed in Sexuality, Health and Human Rights (2008). In the book we deliberately opted to avoid the term ‘fundamentalism’ – which is extensively used by sexual rights activists  – to […]

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First panel – Sexuality, States and Political Processes

First panel – Sexuality, States and Political Processes Morning—August 24 , 2009 The panel that followed was coordinated by Sérgio Carrara, co-director of the Latin American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights (CLAM) and counted with Franklin Gil, associate researchers of the Escuela de Estudios de Género de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Elsa Muniz, […]

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Relevant meetings – News 6

The UN Conference against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, held in Geneva during April 2009, was a follow up to the Conference in Durban, South Africa, in 2001, and its Declaration and Plan of Action (DDPA).

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Key Issues and Plan for the Asian Regional Dialogue

It was agreed that the broad focus of the Dialogue would be on the politics of sexuality: the political processes, actors and outcomes that have shaped sexuality and sexuality-related issues in the region.  But this would go beyond being a descriptive/analytical exercise.  The Dialogue would seek to identify ‘tipping points’ for policy interventions, and come […]

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Y por fin (no todas) bailamos

Por Alejandra Sardá-Chandiramani* El XI Foro Internacional AWID de Ciudad del Cabo fue mi tercer Foro AWID, ya que antes había estado en Guadalajara (2002) y en Bangkok (2005). Por un lado, es muy difícil pensar estos eventos en términos de procesos porque l*s participantes generalmente cambian (más allá de un cierto “elenco estable” del […]

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