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Sonia Corrêa

b. 1948

Brazilian feminist activist and researcher

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Born 1948. Sonia Corrêa is a Brazilian activist, researcher and writer.

Sonia Corrêa (born 18 November 1948) is a feminist activist and researcher from Brazil, 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 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 and their respective reviews. 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 and English. <>. Una genealogía de la hidra, en La reacción patriarcal: neoliberalismo autoritario, politización religiosa y nuevas derechas, coordinado por Martha Cabezas Fernández y Chistina Vega Solís (Bellaterra, 2022)

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Who is Sonia Corrêa?

Brazilian feminist activist and researcher

When was Sonia Corrêa born?

Sonia Corrêa was born on 18 November 1948 in Brazil.

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Sonia Corrêa is an activist, researcher and writer.

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Sonia Corrêa is Brazilian.

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· Wikipedia: Sonia Corrêa

· Wikidata: Q28007403

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