Sonia Corrêa

Sonia Corrêa in 2016

Sonia Corrêa (born 18 November 1948) is a feminist activist and researcher from Brazil, working primarily on issues of gender equality, health and sexuality.[1] Since 2002, she has co-chaired Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW),[2] a global policy forum analysing global trends in sexuality related policies and projects.[3][4]

From 1992 to 2009, Corrêa was the research coordinator for sexual and reproductive health and rights at Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), a global South feminist network. In this capacity, as a civil society member, she was involved in the United Nations negotiations on gender and sexuality related issues at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), the 1995 World Conference on Women, International Conference that has adopted the Yogyakarta Principles as one of 29 signatories[5] and their respective reviews.[3]

Selected publications

Corrêa has published extensively in Portuguese and English.[3] Her publications include:

  • Population and Reproductive Rights: Feminist Perspectives from the South (Zed Books, 1994)
  • Sexuality, Health and Human Rights, co-authored with Richard Parker and Rosalind Petchesky (Routledge, 2008)
  • Development with a Body, co-authored with Andrea Cornwall and Susan Jolly (Zed Books, 2008)
  • Emerging powers, sexuality and human rights: Fumbling around the elephant, co-authored with akshay khanna (2015)[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Sonia Corrêa". Rewire rewire.news. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
  2. ↑ (in Portuguese) Sônia Correa: Em nome do “maternalismo”, toda invasão de privacidade é permitida by Conceição Lemes, published by Viomundo (2012)
  3. 1 2 3 "Sonia Corrêa". lse.ac.uk/genderinstitute. London School of Economics Gender Institute.
  4. ↑ "The Zika virus has reignited Brazil's abortion debate". pri.org. Public Radio International. 28 January 2016.
  5. ↑ Signatories to the Yogyakarta Principles, p.35
  6. ↑ http://sxpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/workingpaper-11.pdf
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