Interviews

Changes in the Coordination of CLAM

Claudia Mora assumes the General Coordination of CLAM and bets on a shared management model with Laura Lowenkron and Horacio Sívori

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.)

Interviews

AGING, WHERE TO?

The anthropologist Mauro Brigeiro (Unicamp) explored new meanings attached to the aging process, configured by expert discourses such as that of gerontology and sexology. His conclusions make multiple connections between bodies, subjectivities, gender roles, and esthetic conventions. (In Portuguese)

Interviews

THE BEST CHILDBIRTH LABOR IS NORMAL AND PHYSIOLOGIC

In this special interview on International Women”s Day, Simone Diniz, physician at the Maternal and Infant Health Department of University of São Paulo School of Public Health, makes an assessment of public policy on maternal and child health through the lens of ‘humanizing care” and discusses the high incidence of c-sections and unplanned pregnancies in Brasil.(Text in Portuguese)

Interviews

In favor of a real debate in Cameroon

To political scientist S.N. Nyeck (UCLA), the craft of sexual rights in Africa must be sensitive to the insight that “the same state power that wounds, when wielded positively, is power that heals.” she said in an interview with CLAM, while visiting Brazil for an SPW meeting. “Strategies need to be framed within a context that recognizes imperfection at all levels.”