TAG: sexual politics

Sexual and reproductive rights global landscape in March 2015

Women’s, feminists and other civil society NGOs from Latin America and the Caribbean launched a statementcriticizing the Political Declaration approved by Members States Monday 9 march in United Nations, in the 59 period of Sessions of the Commission on the Social Status of Women (CSW). In Iran, two new draft laws were tabled. One of […]

Sexual and reproductive rights global landscape in March 2015

Women’s, feminists and other civil society NGOs from Latin America and the Caribbean launched astatementcriticizing the Political Declaration approved by Members States Monday 9 march in United Nations, in the 59 period of Sessions of the Commission on the Social Status of Women (CSW). In Iran, two new draft laws were tabled. One of them […]

Sexual and Reproductive Rights Global Landscape in February 2015

No major event has been registered by our radars at the sexual and reproductive rights global landscape in February. But we would like to recommend a series of inspiring books, publications and others resources that have reached us recently: – The Global Public Health Special Issue (volume 10, issue 2) on SRHR “Sexual and Reproductive […]

Sexuality politics in 2014: A brief retrospective

April – In a landmark decision, Indian Supreme Court allowed transgender people to identify as a third gender and directed the central and state governments to give full legal recognition to them. In May/June – SPW highlighted the inspiring decision by the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights that published resolution in its 55th […]

Meeting Report: Orientations and Identities: Sexuality and Human Rights on the Global Stage Conference

The meeting report for the Orientations and Identities: Sexuality and Human Rights on the Global Stage Conference, that took place in May, Los Angeles, has come out. Click here to read it.

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 abortions and its prominence in the national press, the topic has not been addressed by the main competitors for the presidency in the elections underway. SPW commented and collected information […]

‘Yes Means Yes’ Is a Bad Coupling of Feminism and the State

by Laurie Essig California’s enacting on Sunday of the “yes means yes” law is a victory for some campus feminist activists but an ill-conceived detour for feminism. The new law guiding how colleges must handle accusations of sexual assault will require “an affirmative, conscious, and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity.” In other words, if […]

In The Virile God’s Graveyard

AUGUST 28, 2014 tags: Love Jihad, Narendra Modi, RSS by apoorvanand ( I had spent a week in Gujarat in February-March,2007 and published two reports in TEHELKA. Reproducing the first part to remind myself that it was again in Gujarat where the fear of ‘Love Jihad’ was invented in its present incarnation.) For many Gujaratis, […]

Sexual and reproductive rights global landscape in August 2014

In August, the Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW) published the outcomes from the three Regional Dialogues organized in Asia (2009), Latin America (2009) and Africa (2010) and the inter-regional meeting (2011) on Sexuality and Politics. In the realm of non-conforming gender identities, trans persons have achieved a victory, albeit not definitive. The ICD (International Classification of […]

Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change

Corinne Lennox and Matthew Waites, from Institute of Commonwealth Studies (University of London), are the editors of the free online book Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change, which brings articles on sexual and gender policies and legislations around the Commonwealth nations. Click here to read it.

Gender, Justice, and Neoliberal Transformations – new issue of Scholar & Feminist Online

This new issue of The Scholar & Feminist Online, edited by Elizabeth Bernstein and Janet R. Jakobsen, forges new ground by weaving together issues of gender and sexuality, usually sidelined in conversations about neoliberalism, with questions of the economy and political processes. Emerging out of a 2012 international workshop on the mutual imbrication of economic, […]

Sexuality, 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.