CASES
Paola Guzmán Albarracín v. Ecuador (Inter-American Commission on Human Rights)
NEWS
CENTER DIRECTOR PARTICIPATES IN SYMBOLIC LATIN AMERICAN TRIBUNAL
July 2005
International Legal Program director Luisa Cabal was one of five judges in a public and symbolic tribunal that took place in Lima, Peru, in July 2005. The tribunal examined how women's rights were affected by government failures to ensure broader economic, social and cultural rights. The tribunal, Tribunal Regional de Derechos Economicos, Sociales y Culturales, covered violations throughout the Latin American region and was formed following national-level tribunals in Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru. In considering five specific cases, the tribunal sought to highlight violations of women's economic, social and cultural rights, to frame these issues in the media as violations of women's basic rights, and to explore whether such cases could be litigated. Most of the cases presented at the tribunal dealt with sexual and reproductive rights violations - for instance, mandatory pregnancy tests for female agricultural workers in Colombia, or coercive sterilization of HIV-positive women in Chile.
PUBLICATIONS
Reports
Bodies on Trial: Reproductive Rights in Latin American Courts
Mas allá del derecho. Justicia y género en América Latina
(available in Spanish only). This book is the first publication of the Red Alas network, a Latin American network of law professors that aims to reform legal education in the region from a gender perspective. The Center for Reproductive Rights supports and is a part of this network.
Briefing Papers
Fact Sheet
Regional Partner Organizations
