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01/22/2010 | Around the web

ILGA has launched a new website. Among the new tools, there is a system similar to Wikipedia that allows groups to tell the world about the reality faced by Lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender and intersex in their country. Visit it now!

01/22/2010 | We recommend

Read an interview with Anand Grover, UN Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, published at AIDSLEX website.

01/22/2010 | We recommend

Read the article Practicing PluralistPolitics: Implications on Feminist and LGBT Organizing, by Tesa Casal de Vela & Mira Alexis P. Ofreneo, about the Asia Pacific Forum for Beijing +15 and published on Dawn Informs (December, 2009).

01/15/2010 | Around the world

Haiti: The SPW team is shocked with the disaster that devastated Haiti on January 12, 2010, the thousands of deaths and the many risks that may ensue the disaster that has been catastrophic for every sector of society, including Haiti’s feminist and LGBTI communities.

01/08/2010 | Around the world

EUA: On December 18th 2009, the SPW website posted an article written by Natalie Wittlin about the retention of the ‘prostitution pledge’ in the new proposed US HIV/AIDS policy guidelines announced by the Obama Administration on November 23rd. On December 29th, the Brazilian newspaper O Estado de São Paulo published an article entitled The United States will provide funds to prostitutes, which the content contradicted SPW’s analysis of PEPFAR.

12/18/2009 | Around the world

USA: Even with Obama, the prostitution pledge remains on place in the case of PEPFAR, the US Funding for HIV/AIDS.

12/11/2009 | We recommend

The Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) launched the Reproductive Justice for All: Toward a U.S. Foreign Policy on Comprehensive Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, a field report on the advantages and challenges to comprehensive approaches to sexual and reproductive health and rights in the Dominican Republic, Ethiopia and Botswana. Download the report.

12/11/2009 | Check it out

In order to promote secularism internationally, some organisations have come together to set up the International Bureau for Laicite. Read the founding statement of the International Bureau for Laicite and support this initiative, signing up this resolution.

11/27/2009 | Check it out

ILGA is looking for a new Executive Director to head its organisation, whose main office is in Brussels, Belgium, and manage a small staff team delivering on an ambitious Strategic Plan together with the Executive Board and the Regional Boards and members of ILGA. Closing date for receipt of applications is 7th December 2009. Click here for more information.

11/27/2009 | Around the world

Brazil: A Brazilian student called Geisy Arruda, whose short, pink dress caused a storm at a private college and led to her expulsion, has received permission to return to class. Private college reverses decision to ban her after public outcry and worldwide publicity.

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