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CALL FOR EXPERTS: IUCN GLOBAL GENDER OFFICE

The IUCN Global Gender Office is the institutional anchor of IUCN´s work on gender equality and women’s empowerment.

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Queering Paradigms 5 in Quito

Under the title Queering Narratives of Modernity this conference will explore the intersection of queer and de-colonial studies. Quito, Ecuador, February 2014. Deadline for proposals: August 26, 2013

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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)

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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.

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Call for Papers – Post-Transitional Fertility in Developing Countries: Causes and Implications

For almost 70 years the idea of the demographic transition has been central to our understanding of global population dynamics. After many decades of relevance, however, the utility of the demographic transition model for anticipating the future is rapidly diminishing.what can we expect in the future in the low fertility regions of the world?