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TAG: reproductive rights

Conference Report | 3rd Abortion & Reproductive Justice Conference

  3rd Abortion & Reproductive Justice Conference: The Unfinished Revolution | Decriminalisation of Abortion, Medical Abortion and Advocacy for Change At Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa, 9-12 July 2018   Read the full report Produced by Marge Berer with Christina Boateng and Pauline Diaz This is an informal report of a set of three workshops, facilitated […]

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Honduras discriminates against women and LGBTI as part of a transnational religious effort

On 14 November 2018, the Human Rights Council Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice issued a statement sharing the preliminary findings of the Independent Experts official visit to the country. In their conclusion, they found that, although Honduras has ratified several Human and Women’s Rights treaties, the country […]

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The Brazilian 2018 Election: A perfect catastophre?

Read Sonia Corrêa’s article on the antecedents, outcomes and meanings of the 2018 Brazilian presidential elections.  

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Sexual politics in October 2018

The Brazilian perfect storm We apologize for the delay in the circulation of SPW’s October 2018 monthly announcement due to the stormy process and result of the Brazilian presidential elections. We needed time to begin processing this outcome and to select relevant information that may contribute to a better understanding of this crucial turn of […]

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Sexual politics in September 2018

September is the key moment of the year in the global struggle for abortion rights, as the 28th marks the International Safe Abortion Day. In its bulletin, the International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion (ICWRSA) shared twenty-eight success stories of abortion struggle around the world in the last year and urged activists to […]

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Sexual politics in August 2018

#MourningMuseuNacional: As this announcement was being finalized, the Brazilian National Museum burned in flames. A singular and irrecoverable collection of the country’s historical and cultural memory, painfully accumulated in the course of the last two hundred years, is gone. Devastated and speechless, we join with our hearts and minds the deep mourning of our friends, […]

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Sexual politics in July 2018

22nd International AIDS Conference:  On July 22, Pedro Villardi, from GTPI-ABIA, participated in the  Challenging Criminalization Globally Pre-Conference, one of the more important satellites events in which matters related to gender and sexuality were debated. Other relevant events to be reported are: the Change seminar on the detrimental effects of Trump policies;  the debate called […]

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Sexual politics in June 2018

Main global trends  ICD Reform – On June 18, the Working Group set up by the World Health Organization (WHO), has released the final version of the International Classification Diseases 11 (ICD 11). These parameters have been under review since 2011 and the outcome of this long process means an important victory for transnational trans rights […]

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The green tide

  Three Argentinean partners who work on gender, sexuality and abortion matters  generously share their views on key undercurrents of the process leading to the partial approval of the Voluntary Interruption Law (LIV) by the House of Representatives on June 14th and explore what may come next. Malu Moreno In a very moving way,  great […]

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Abortion rights in Brazil: the institutional debate, international effects on the media

By Fábio Grotz and Sonia Corrêa A new chapter of the ongoing institutional debate on abortion rights in Brazil is scheduled for August 3rd and 6th,  as a public hearing has been convened by Judge Rosa Weber of the Supreme Court (STF) to discuss ADPF 442/2017 , presented to the March 2017 by the feminist […]

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BBC expands the coverage of abortion in Brazil: but at what cost?

By Fábio Grotz Since early June, BBC Brazil — possibly with a view to feeding the national debate around ADPF 442/2017 or perhaps as a reflection of the victorious Irish referendum – began a series of reports on clandestine abortion and abortion policies in Brazil. The series encompassed the following headlines: “Inside a WhatsApp secret […]

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Assessing gender and sexuality politics in the Colombia elections

by Sandra Mazo Cardona An inside look from gender and sexuality on the circumstances that led to Duque’s victory in the Colombian presidential elections On June 17, 2018, Ivan Duque, Centro Democrático’s (Democratic Center in English) candidate won the presidential elections in Colombia with 54 percent of votes. The second term election was sharply polarized […]

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