TAG: religious discourses

Activists launched a petition against the Indonesia’s Penal Code reform

“Reject RKUHP that Criminalizes Women, Children, Indigenous Peoples and Marginalized Groups” We are women, housewives, workers, students, students, activists, survivors of sexual violence who have great concerns about the criminalization of citizens’ privacy in discussions of RKUHP sections of ethics in Parliament. One is the article about adultery which extends the notion of adultery from […]

Sexual Politics in January 2018

In January of 2018, a fierce transnational feminist controversy erupted on the question of sexual harassment. In the same week of the Golden Globes Award ceremony when the #TimeIsUp campaign for equal gender pay was launched, a manifesto signed by a hundred French women artists and writers was published by Le Monde, titled The freedom […]

Latin American feminism at EFLAC

Montevideo (Uruguay) was the stage of the 14th Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Gathering (EFLAC in Spanish), where women gathered from the 23 to 25 of November under the motto “Diverse, but not to be dispersed”. We compiled some pieces and analysis in English about the event in order to promote internationally the Latin American Feminist debate. […]

Sexual Politics 2017 Round-Up

As 2018 begins, SPW highlights the main events and trends as well as tensions and challenges traversing sexual politics worldwide. Trends and Facts January In January 2017, an avalanche of draconian and regressive policy measures was adopted in the first two weeks of the Trump administration. SPW compiled a preliminary assessment of these policy trends date […]

Sexual Politics in November 2017

In Europe, the rise of the extreme right – which implies both the deepening of racism and a threat to gender and sexuality related rights – continued its course. Its scariest demonstration was seen in Poland where, on November 11th, a far-right rally gathered over twenty thousand people who shouted dogmatic religious and nationalist […]

Brazilian conservatives react to Judith Butler

Philosopher Judith Butler visited Brazil to launch two books and participate in the International Colloquium on the Ends of Democracy at SESC Vila Mariana in São Paulo. On this occasion conservative forces mobilized against her presence in the country. They made Butler an icon of “gender ideology” and a political target, even when in none […]

Child Marriage compilation on October 2017

Turkey introduced a draft bill allowing religious leaders to perform civil marriage ceremonies. Women’s rights activists claim it will only make it harder to monitor the ceremonies in order to prevent child marriages and it will distance Turkey from secularism, while authorities insist the law will be passed. Indian Supreme Court ruled that having sex with a minor, which […]

Sexual politics in Brazil: the conservative restoration a further step ahead #2

In order to properly situate sexual politics in Brazil (while paying special attention to abortion), we must connect it to the broader political scenario of the country as a whole. As reported last month, Brazilian political institutions are becoming increasingly fragile. President Michel Temer’s approval rating stands at 3%, making him the most unpopular president […]

The Anatrella case and the silence from the “family defenders”

What happens when a big name of the anti-gender crusade is involved in a sex scandal? Rogério Diniz Junqueira* Monsignor Tony Anatrella is a prominent name in the galaxy of anti-gender “experts”. A French Catholic priest of the diocese of Paris and a psychotherapist, he has been for years a reference for the ultraconservative Catholic […]

Health and Human Rights Journal – Vol 19, Issue 1, June 2017

Table of Contents Special Section: Abortion and Human Rights GUEST EDITORS Alicia Ely Yamin, Paola Bergallo, and Marge Berer EDITORIAL Narratives of Essentialism and Exceptionalism: The Challenges and Possibilities of Using Human Rights to Improve Access to Safe Abortion Alicia Ely Yamin and Paola Bergallo DISCUSSION Abortion Law and Policy Around the World: In Search […]

Sexual Politics in July 2017

In July, once again, contradictory trends were registered in the abortion frontline. In Chile, the processing of a bill aimed at legalizing abortion in three cases — when the woman’s life is at risk, when the fetus is non-viable and when a pregnancy results from rape — was halted when the Lower House has not reached […]

Sexual politics in June 2017

June is LGBTIQ Pride month worldwide. This SPW brief highlights events around the world, prioritizing parades and other demonstrations that are not captured by mainstream radars. In that regard, we also recommend the readers who read Spanish to peruse the new blog Orgullos Críticos which examines trends and traps implied in the growing normalization and pinkwashing of pride parades