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SPW Activities
NEW! From March 18th to 22th, 2012 SPW organized the Sexuality and change – a new training program, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This was the first training program offered by SPW and this initiative prompted participants to examine how theory, research and policy can shape meaningful social change. Read more and see pictures.
Queer Comrades, a Chinese organization working on LGBT issues, produced a video about their participation at the Sexuality and change - a new training program, to disseminate the discussions held at the event held in Rio de Janeiro, in March 2013. Watch the video here.
WE RECOMMEND
NEW!Read the Letter Repudiating the Ministry of Health’s Censorship of the Campaign about Prostitution and HIV/AIDS, written by the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association – ABIA, after the Ministry of Health announced its censorship of the campaign about prostitution and HIV/AIDS launched on International Prostitutes Day.
Professor Rebecca Cook writes about the Alyne Case, in which Brazil has been condemned by the CEDAW, on Human Rights and Maternal Health: Exploring the effectiveness of the Alyne decision.
NEW! Awid's "Facing Fundamentalisms Newsletters" seek to spark engagement and interaction from readers who are confronting religious fundamentalisms across a diversity of contexts. March edition is focused on Religion, Culture, Tradition and Fundamentalisms at the UN.
Professor Rebecca Cook writes about the Alyne Case, in which Brazil has been condemned by the CEDAW, on Human Rights and Maternal Health: Exploring the effectiveness of the Alyne decision.
NEW! Awid's "Facing Fundamentalisms Newsletters" seek to spark engagement and interaction from readers who are confronting religious fundamentalisms across a diversity of contexts. March edition is focused on Religion, Culture, Tradition and Fundamentalisms at the UN.
Our publications
ABIA/SPW, NEPO and UNFPA launched Preservativo feminino - das políticas globais à realidade brasileira (Female condom – from global policies to the Brazilian reality), on the female condom in the local and global contexts, and its meaning for the exercise of sexual and reproductive rights of women. 
AROUND THE WORLD
NEW! El Salvador: Following an Inter-American Court of Human Rights' determination, Salvadoran woman who sought abortion delivers baby after a C-section. Read more.
NEW! US: NY Archdiocese has been reluctantly paying for health plan that covers birth control. Read more.
NEW! Brazil: Sexual assaults in Rio de Janeiro have cast a light on class differences in the city and have raised fears for women's safety ahead of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics. Read more.
NEW! US: NY Archdiocese has been reluctantly paying for health plan that covers birth control. Read more.
NEW! Brazil: Sexual assaults in Rio de Janeiro have cast a light on class differences in the city and have raised fears for women's safety ahead of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics. Read more.
AROUND THE WEB
NEW! Show your support to the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia by changing your profile picture on social networks. Click here for some suggestions.
The Global Dialogues Video Challenges are an innovative, intercreative approach to making short YouTube films on global social issues. Check out this one about "Young and HIV Positive".
The Global Dialogues Video Challenges are an innovative, intercreative approach to making short YouTube films on global social issues. Check out this one about "Young and HIV Positive".
CHECK IT OUT
NEW! The Association for Progressive Communications Women’s Rights Programme is developing the second phase of the EROTICS: An exploratory research project into sexuality and the internet and initiating this survey as part of the project. If you are a sexuality rights activist using the internet for work, fill in the survey! It is available in nine languages. Read more.
Sign the petition Fighting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and strengthening the Brazilian response to HIV, which requests the Brazilian government to take the necessary measures to achieve reduction of human rights violations related to homophobia and better qualify the national response to HIV/AIDS.
Sign the petition Fighting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and strengthening the Brazilian response to HIV, which requests the Brazilian government to take the necessary measures to achieve reduction of human rights violations related to homophobia and better qualify the national response to HIV/AIDS.
