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Submission to the Global Commission on HIV & the Law

The UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights (“Reference Group”) welcomes the creation of a Global Commission to develop evidence-informed, human rights-based recommendations for effective HIV responses that promote and protect the human rights of people living with and most vulnerable to HIV. The Reference Group is mindful that despite numerous past statements by UNAIDS and its co-sponsors calling for the repeal of laws that block effective HIV responses, such laws remain on the books in most countries and in some cases are increasing.

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Internet Governance, Sexuality and Women’s Rights

The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is a key, robust and relatively open multi-stakeholder platform created by the United Nations to discuss public policy matters related to internet governance. However, it has been a challenging space for women’s rights and sexual rights advocates. In the fifth and final year of its mandate, women’s rights are still being dwarfed as a critical issue to be debated in this arena, while sexuality issues although present, is not seen as a matter of rights. 

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Conference AFRICAN SAME-SEX SEXUALITIES AND GENDER DIVERSITY:

Conference objectives: To promote understanding and further study of male and female same-sex sexual practices, identities and communities, including expressions of gender diversity, in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR ETHNOLOGY AND FOLKLORE (SIEF)

People Make Places: ways of feeling the world. Lisbon (17/04/2011 – 21/04/2011)
Call for papers: Panel “Emotions and the Public Sphere” (P214). Submission Deadline: 15/10/2010

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The fifth edition of

The latest issue Sexualidades No. 5: A Working Paper Series on Latin American and Caribbean Sexualities is out: The fifth edition of the trilingual online journal, Trajectories of Male coupling in Mexico City: An exploration based on sexual biographies by Gabriel Gallego Montes is now available on the IRN website.