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Pelo mundo In 05/07/2011 |
The complex universe of sexuality on the internetSexuality Policy Watch (SPW) and the Latin American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights (CLAM) teamed up together to conduct the EroTICs research in Brazil. In this interview, they talk about their participation in the project as an opportunity to address the nuanced impact of new Internet legislation on sexuality. |
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América Latina In 18/05/2011 |
Cures that KillA coalition of groups from Latin America and the Caribbean Launches the "Cures that Kill" campaign. The campaign aims at fighting so-called ’reparative’ therapies which proposes to "cure" sexual and gender diversity. Sign the petition and spread the word ! |
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Por el mundo In 19/04/2011 |
Call for participation: Does yourmother now? Collection of Latin American LGBT StoriesWe invite you to submit original, unpublished essays, poems, shortstories, plays, creative non-fiction, related to your experience of beingLGBTI and growing up in Latin America or Diaspora. We accept both text and audio format material. |
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Por el mundo In 12/04/2011 |
IRN Newsletter Latin America & the WorldThis is the IRN Latin American Newsletter, full of updates from April 2011. The International Resource Network (IRN), based at the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center and funded by the Ford Foundation, aims to link up researchers, activists, artists, and teachers in areas related to diverse sexualities and genders. |
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Por el mundo In 23/03/2011 |
Are Women's Rights on Agenda in Latin America?For all of President Barack Obama’s pledges that he stands for universal human rights, the fundamental rights of women were left off the table when he visited Brazil, Chile and El Salvador – countries whose governments have failed to fully address women's health, equality and empowerment as priority policy issues. |
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Argentina In 22/02/2011 |
Sexualities in the SouthWhat do we mean when we say “Global South”? What are the issues involved in thinking of “our own” analytical categories, “our theory” and “our politics” outside the hegemony of metropolitan centers? Intellectuals from Africa, Asia and Latin America met in Buenos Aires to address the ways these questions intersect with the study of the political dimensions of sexuality. |
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Pelo mundo In 22/02/2011 |
LGBT Africans Face Blackmail on a Regular BasisThe report “Nowhere to Turn: Blackmail and Extortion of LGBT People in Sub-Saharan Africa” illustrates how LGBT Africans are made doubly vulnerable by the criminalization of homosexuality and the often-violent stigmatization they face if their sexuality is revealed. |
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Chile In 22/02/2011 |
A third positionThe first public opinion survey about abortion in four Latin American countries (Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Nicaragua) by FLACSO-Chile reveals that the traditional polarization of the ideological debate about abortion does not reflect the attitude of the majority of the population of these countries toward the issue. Download a PDF version of the study. |
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Pelo mundo In 21/02/2011 |
Liturgies of SexualityThe statements made by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican Secretary of State, to the effect that pedophilia would be connected to homosexuality has raised intense debates. The Secretary’s statements were seen by many observers as a strategy by the Holy See to attribute the abuse against children and young people in the Church to “deviant” priests, shifting the focus of attention away from the Vatican. |
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Por el mundo In 02/02/2011 |
CREA's 5th Sexuality, Gender and Rights InstituteLast date for submitting completed applications for 2011 CREA’s 5th Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute: Exploring Theory and Practice (June 18 - 26, 2011, Istanbul, Turkey) is February 15. |
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