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Books

Devir Puta

Neste livro, José Miguel segue com honestidade intelectual a trajetória de quatro lideranças da prostituição exercidas por mulheres, desde suas juventudes e acompanhando suas inserções na prostituição de rua no centro de Porto Alegre.

Interviews

Criminalizing prostitution

Argentinas abolitionist stance treats the persons who work as prostitutes as victims of human trafficking. Eugenia Aravena, executive secretary of AMMAR Cordoba explains that the criminal framework that makes their trade clandestine criminalizes them and leads to greater exploitation. (Text in Spanish.)

News

Notes on current revisions of the Brazilian bill against homophobia

Federal Magistrate Roger Raupp Rios examines––in the perspective of Brazilian anti-discrimination law, and other important normative frameworks – the foundation and details of current revisions to the Federal Congress Bill Nº 122, which seeks to curb intolerance, hatred and discrimination in Brasil. (Texto in Portuguese)

News

Rape as a global phenomenon

The recent wave of rapes in Brazil, India, Egypt and the US validates that rape is a global phenomenon, though any individual experience of rape is deep-rooted in a social and political context, which also affects the ways in which the victim, the perpetrator, their families, and local institutions react and represent what happened, experts say.

News

Homophobic hate crimes in Mexico

The report Crímenes de odio por homofobia: un concepto en construcción (2012), by Rodrigo Parrini Roses and Alejandro Brito Lemus, is now available for download. The volume presents research findings instrumental to protect the human rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and trans persons (LGBT) in Mexico. (Text in spanish)