Navegando em águas internacionais: a difusão dos direitos reprodutivos através do ativismo da Women on Waves

Abstract

This dissertation, of empirical and theoretical nature aims to review the construction of transnational activism through the analysis of the actions of the NGO Women on Waves, which is based in the Netherlands. This research proposes to implement women's reproductive rights through international waters and, by force of the resistance that these rights arouse its activism has sparked debate. This research aims to analyze the problem of women's sexual and reproductive rights from a specific perspective: the study of the practices of the NGO Women on Waves. Therefore, it will be analyzed and studied through Cosmopolitanism, Democratic Iterations and Advocacy across borders theories, respectively from Seyla Benhabib, Margareth Keck and Kathryn Sikkink authoress. Through bibliographic review, we tried to present the concepts correlated to the construction of those theories. One of the objectives of the realization of the analysis of these theories, together with the WoW movement is to bring up points of convergence in these approaches that will help (re)think important ideas and debates of International Relations. Thus, this research also aims to present contributions to the construction and tensioning of the debate within the IRs, inserting the perspective of the authoress mentioned above. The methodology of this work involves the development in exploratory and descriptive research molds. Thus, we will approach through theories the construction of networks and dissemination of sexual and reproductive rights, within the field of International Relations. The core of this proposal lies in discussing such rights since the optics of Cosmopolitanism and, through them, the internal disputes to human rights today, analyzing the actions of the NGO Women on Waves. This analysis aims to think about how activism for women's reproductive rights contributes to reconfiguring the demos of democracy.