Sonia Corrêa (born 18 November 1948) is a

feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...

activist and researcher from

Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...

, working primarily on issues of gender equality, health and sexuality. Since 2002, she has co-chaired Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW), a global policy forum analysing global trends in sexuality related policies and projects. From 1992 to 2009, Corrêa was the research coordinator for

sexual and reproductive health and rights Sexual and reproductive health and rights or ''SRHR'' is the concept of human rights applied to sexuality and Human reproduction, reproduction. It is the recognition of every person’s right to make fully informed and self-determined decisions ...

Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) is a transnational feminist network of scholars, researchers and activists from the global South. DAWN works under the gender, ecology and economic justice (GEEJ) framework, which highlights ...

(DAWN), a

global South Global North and Global South are terms that denote a method of grouping countries based on their defining characteristics with regard to socioeconomics and politics. According to UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the Global South broadly com ...

feminist network. In this capacity, as a

civil society Civil society can be understood as the "third sector" of society, distinct from government and business, and including the family and the private sphere.United Nations The United Nations (UN) is the Earth, global intergovernmental organization established by the signing of the Charter of the United Nations, UN Charter on 26 June 1945 with the stated purpose of maintaining international peace and internationa ...

negotiations on gender and sexuality related issues at the 1994

International Conference on Population and Development The United Nations coordinated an International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, Egypt, on 5–13 September 1994. Its resulting Programme of Action is the steering document for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA ...

(ICPD), the

1995 World Conference on Women The Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace was the name given for a conference convened by the United Nations during 4–15 September 1995 in Beijing, China. At this conference, governments from around the ...

, International Conference that has adopted the

Yogyakarta Principles The Yogyakarta Principles is a document about human rights in the areas of sexual orientation and gender identity that was published as the outcome of an international meeting of human rights groups in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in November 2006. T ...

as one of 29 signatories and their respective reviews.

Sexuality Policy Watch

With Richard Parker, Corrêa co-chairs Sexuality Policy Watch, a global forum of researchers and activists working on

sexual rights Sexual and reproductive health and rights or ''SRHR'' is the concept of human rights applied to sexuality and reproduction. It is the recognition of every person’s right to make fully informed and self-determined decisions about their sexual p ...

issues and policies across the world. The forum was launched in 2002 as the International Working Group on Sexuality and Social Policy (IWGSSP), but changed its name to Sexuality Policy Watch in 2006. Since its inception, SPW has conducted research on trends in sexuality, advocated to prevent violence against women, built partnerships with sexual rights groups, and published key policy analyses.

Selected publications

Corrêa has published extensively in

Portuguese Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ...

and English. 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 Andrea Cornwall is Professor of Global Development and Anthropology at King's College London. Professional career Andrea Cornwall is a political anthropologist who specialises in the anthropology of gender and sexuality, citizen participation ...

and Susan Jolly (Zed Books, 2008) , * "Emerging powers, sexuality and human rights: Fumbling around the elephant", co-authored with Sonia Corrêa and Akashay Khanna (SPW Working Papers, June 2015)

References

External links

SPW official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Corrêa, Sonia 1948 births Brazilian feminist writers Brazilian women non-fiction writers Brazilian women's rights activists Living people Brazilian LGBTQ writers 20th-century Brazilian women writers 21st-century Brazilian women writers Brazilian LGBTQ women