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From:	Lindsay Menard-Freeman [ profile ]
Subject:	[SPW News] See new updates at the SPW website!
Sent:	Jan 24th, 2011 - 12:34:32

	Apologies for cross-posting~ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sexuality Policy Watch Date: Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 1:36 PM Subject: [SPW News] See new updates at the SPW website! To: [image: SPW news] SPW News - January, 2011 * * ------------------------------ AROUND THE WORLD >> Malasya: Muslim engineer Azman Ismail has sparked a huge storm of criticism, invited official censure and even death threats by going on YouTube.com and confessing that he is a gay. Read more. >> Mexico: Susana Chavez, a human rights activist best known for her poetry and actions to help raise awareness of the violence towards women, was murdered in Ciudad Juarez, a gritty border metropolis that has become Mexicos most violent city. Read more. >> Brazil: Brazilian Human Rights and gender equality activists send a manifesto against the way abortion was treated during the last election period in Brazil to the President Dilma Rousseff and Ministers. Read more. >> Uganda: Ugandas high court released a ruling permanently prohibiting the tabloid Rolling Stone (no relation to the venerable U.S. publication by the same name) from continuing its public vigilante campaign against that countrys LGBT community. >> Mauritius: Mauritian sex workers marched for human rights in Rose-Hill, a major town in Mauritius, on January 3, 2011.Their aim was to sensitise the population, particularly the parliamentarians, to the state of sex workers on the island. >> Global: On December 21, 2010 the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly in favor of restoring reference to sexual orientation in a high-profile resolution condemning extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. Read more. >> Global: More than 300 activists from 76 countries attended 25th World Conference of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association in São Paulo, Brazil, and called on collaboration with civil society to fight homophobia and trans-phobia. Read more. Read more in the section "Around the World" * * ------------------------------ OUR PUBLICATIONS >> Read the report Sexuality and Development: Brazilian National Response to HIV/AIDS amongst Sex Workers (PDF version), with the main findings of the case study. Read more in the section "Our publications / Books and Reports" * * ------------------------------ WE RECOMMEND >> Read Bringing Together Pleasure and Politics: Sexuality Workshops in Rural India, the Practice Paper Volume 2011 Number 6, published by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) with the experiences and reflections that Nirantar, a womens NGO working on gender and education in India, sought to answer. Nirantar ran a programme of 13 sexuality workshops with 300 participants, including both rural, Dalit women and NGO staff members. >> In A Tale of Two Moralities, published at the New York Times website, Paul Krugman writes on the American political morality and highlights the deep intersection of economic and abortion debates in the USA. Read the article. >> Read "Same-Sex Africa and the Fantasy of Global Participation": Brief notes, written by Rafael de la Dehesa, Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York, on the Professor Tavia Nyongo reflections about the recent efforts by activists in the Global North to promote LGBT rights in several East African nations. >> Read The extraordinary life and death of David Burgess, on the death of a brilliant immigration lawyer. Burgess also was Sonia and died under a London tube train in October 2010. In this article, Burgesss family and friends tell the complicated story of the loving father, brilliant colleague, sensitive woman and courageous person they knew. >> Read Developing sexual health programmes - A framework for action, organized by the World Health Organization, pointing to the importance of programming for sexual health across the five domains of laws, policies and human rights; education; society and culture; economics; and health. >> Read the article Putting the Universal Back in the Universal Declaration, written by John Fisher, Co-Director of ARC International. This short article focuses on the recent developments at the UN, with an overview of both progress and challenges on LGBT issues in the international arena. >> Read the issue number 6 of the* Sexuality, Health and Society - Latin American publication* (contents in Spanish, Portuguese and English), published by the Latin American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights (CLAM). Read more in the section "We recommend" ------------------------------ AROUND THE WEB >> Over the past two weeks, three travestis have been murdered in separate incidents in Honduras. In two of the incidents, the victims were set on fire either before or after their deaths. Join the IGLHRC and the Honduran LGBTI organization Red Cattrachas, sending a online message to Honduran authorities. Read more in the section "Around the web" ------------------------------ CHECK IT OUT >> The Safe Abortion Action Fund (SAAF) is launching a new call for proposals in 2011, in response to the urgent need for funding to improve womens access to safe abortion. SAAF will provide grants of a maximum of US$200,000 for a maximum of three years. The deadline for applications is January 31, 2011. Read more. >> The fifty-fifth session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York, USA, from 22 February to 4 March 2011. Read more. >> The LGBT and Human Rights training programme is designed for participants working in organisations giving them an influence on issues concerning LGBT and human rights. The training is open only for candidates from some countries in Africa. The closing date for application is April 8, 2011. Read more. >> Applications for the* CREAs 5th Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute: Exploring Theory and Practiceare* due on or before February 15, 2011. The course will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, from June 18-26, 2011, focusing on a conceptual study of sexuality. Read more. >> The issue 6 of the Interface: a journal for and about social movementsinvites contributions on the topic of feminism and womens movement(s). The deadline for submissions is 1 May 2011. Read more. >> The 1st HIV Social Science and Humanities Conference will take place at Durban ICC from 11 - 13 June 2011, aiming to discuss and support contributions of the social sciences and humanities to HIV research and action. Registrations are open. Read more. Read more in the section "Check it out" ------------------------------ :: Sexuality Policy Watch Secretariat ABIA - Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association Presidente Vargas Avenue, 446/ 13th Floor Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Brazil - 20071-907 Tel: +55(21)2223-1040 - Fax: +55(21)2253-8495 E-mail: admin (at) sxpolitics.org www.sxpolitics.org ------------------------------ :: Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW) is a global forum composed of researchers and activists from a wide range of countries and regions of the world. Inspired by local and international initiatives, the SPW's mandate is twofold: to contribute to sexuality related global policy debates through strategic policy-oriented research and analysis projects, and to promote more effective linkages between local, regional and global initiatives. For more information on SPW activities, articles and other resources, please visit our website at www.sxpolitics.org. * If you wish to subscribe the SPW Newsletter please visit our website at www.sxpolitics.org* *** If you no longer wish to receive these emails, please reply to this message with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line.* -- Lindsay Menard-Freeman Program Officer Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS, a program of TakingITGlobal www.gyca.org www.tigweb.org (T): +212.661.6111 (E): lindsay (at) gyca.org 540 President St. 3rd Floor Brooklyn, NY 11215 GYCA is a youth-led global network of over 4,500 young leaders and adult allies working on youth and HIV/AIDS in 150 countries world-wide. GYCA's mission is to empower young leaders with the skills, knowledge, resources and opportunities they need to scale up HIV/AIDS interventions amongst their peers.