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Call for papers

Creating new development paradigms to achieve sexual and reproductive health and rights: critical analysis and reflection. Submissions due 1-31 May 2013.

The election of Jorge Bergoglio as pope is strategic in terms of religious geopolitical interests. It is no coincidence that the new pope comes from Latin America, where Catholics are a majority, and where yet sexual and reproductive right have made significant headways, said Maria José Rosado, Catholics for Choice chair in Brazil. (Text in Spanish)

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EROTICS Survey

What is the role of the internet in your work to advance sexual rights? What are some of the obstacles, threats or challenges that you have faced online? The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) invites you to participate in a survey on Internet regulation and sexual rights.

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Waiting for rights

This research report by sociologist Rosa Oliveira (Pagu/Unicamp) maps the sexual rights agenda in the three branches of the Brazilian state. Official responses have increased over the past years, though inconsistently, due to conflicts between the demands on behalf of social movements and the rise of religious actors in state politics. (Text in Portuguese)

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Suffering birth labor

Suffering birth labor The recognition and sanction of obstetric violence in Argentina and Venezuela illustrate the accomplishments of the movement towards the humanization of birth labor in the region. However, Brazil and Chile still report high rates of invasive and unjustified medical interventions. Specialists urge for cultural changes, restoring women their agency over their bodies.