China: How Will Conservative Backlash to Same-sex Marriage Impact Tsai Ing-wen’s Chances for Re-election?

I argue that Taiwanese society’s movement towards the acceptance of human rights as global values, multiculturalism, the rights of individuals etc. is intrinsically linked to the development of a Taiwanese identity (based what Habermas called a Verfassungspatriotismus) as used to assert Taiwan’s international status. 

Brazil: Against teenage pregnancy, Damares ministry wants to stimulate 'I chose to wait' policy

In an attempt to prevent teenage pregnancy, the Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights is studying creating a program that encourages young people not to have sex or to postpone the onset of sexual life.

Documentary explores work of choreographer who changed dance

 “Dance exercises over dancers an insidious attraction. It makes them work hours daily on perfecting  an instrument which is really deteriorating from birth. To what end, this eternal daily struggle? Because inside of all that is an ecstasy. Brief, perhaps, not always released. But this can happen at any moment. And when it does for a dancer, he can smile without knowing it. There is no guarantee of this, but it does exist. We see it, and we know it.”