Laws should protect not harm

Luisa Cabal
ONUSIDA

More than 65 countries criminalize same-sex sexual relations, including at least eight that impose the death penalty. Globally, gay men and other men who have sex with men are around 28 times more likely to acquire HIV than the general population and are much less likely to access HIV services. ...

Women of the World : Laws and Policies Affecting Their Reproductive Lives : Latin America and the Caribbean

Luisa Cabal, Luisa, ed. Cabal, The Center for Reproductive Law & Policy, DEMUS Estudio para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer
1997 | The Center for Reproductive Law & Policy

Reframing the Right to Health: Legal Advocacy to Advance Women's Reproductive Rights

Luisa Cabal, Jaime M. Todd-Gher
2009 | Rüffer & Rub

Striking a Balance: Conscientious Objection and Reproductive Health Care from the Colombian Perspective

Mónica Arango Olaya, Luisa Cabal, Valentina Montoya Robledo
2014

Conscientious Objection or conscientious refusal (CO) in access to reproductive health care is at the center of current legal debates worldwide. In countries such as the US and the UK, constitutional dilemmas surrounding CO in the context of reproductive health services reveal inadequate policy ...

Letter to the Editor

Luisa Cabal, Jennie Pasquarella
2008

The Agenda for Zero Discrimination in Health Care

Luisa Cabal
2017

Learning from the Past: Confronting Legal, Social, and Structural Barriers to the HIV Response

Luisa Cabal, Patrick Eba
2017

Women's Reproductive Rights in Colombia : A Shadow Report

Luisa Cabal, Katherine Hall Martinez
1998 | The Center for Reproductive Law & Policy

Cuerpo y derecho : Legislación y jurisprudencia en América Latina

Luisa Cabal, Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll, Mónica del Pilar Roa López
2001 | Universidad de los Andes

En los países latinoamericanos con sistemas legales derivados del derecho romano y europeo continental, donde la ley es la principal fuente de derecho, persiste la idea de que los jueces son agentes instrumentales cuya función consiste simplemente en aplicar la ley de manera objetiva, apolítica y ...

Bodies on Trial: Reproductive Rights in Latin American Courts

Center for Reproductive Rights, Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Derecho, Luisa Cabal, Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll, Mónica del Pilar Roa López, Isabel Cristina Jaramillo Sierra
2003 | Center for Reproductive Rights

Reproductive Rights Litigation: From Recognition to Transformation

Luisa Cabal, Suzannah Phillips
2017 | Cambridge University Press

Calling a Spade a Spade: Maternal Mortality as a Human Rights Violation

Luisa Cabal, Morgan Stoffregen
2009

What Role Can International Litigation Play in the Promotion and Advancement of Reproductive Rights in Latin America?

Luisa Cabal, Mónica del Pilar Roa López, Lilian Sepúlveda-Oliva
2003

During the past decades, legal advocacy has played a critical role in changing the realities of women's reproductive lives in countries worldwide. The courts may be an excellent venue for bringing about change, especially where there is a disconnect between international, constitutional, or ...

The Legal Determinants of Health: Harnessing the Power of Law for Global Health and Sustainable Development

Ala Alwan, Agnes Binagwaho, Gian Luca Burci, Luisa Cabal, Mary DeBartolo, Katherine DeLand, Eric A. Friedman, Eric Goosby, Lawrence O. Gostin, Katie Gottschalk, Timothy Grant Evans, Sara Hossain, Jenny Kaldor, Susan C. Kim, Howard Koh, John T. Monahan, Gorik Ooms, Mirta Roses Periago, Rodrigo Uprimny, Alicia Ely Yamin
2019

Health risks in the 21st century are beyond the control of any government in any country. In an era of globalisation, promoting public health and equity requires cooperation and coordination both within and among states. Law can be a powerful tool for advancing global health, ...

The Right to Health Must Guide Responses to COVID-19

Judith Bueno de Mesquita, Luisa Cabal, Allan Maleche, Benjamin Mason Meier, Dainius Pūras
2020

Tensions and Exclusions: the Knotty Policy Encounter Between Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and HIV

Aziza Ahmed, Luisa Cabal, Susana T. Fried
2019

Criminal Law and the Risk of Harm: A Commentary on the Impact of Criminal Laws on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Sexual Conduct and Key Populations

Luisa Cabal, Verónica Birga, Lucinda O'Hanlon, Christina Zampas
2018

Criminal law is one of the most powerful tools that a State can use to exert control over individuals. It provides a means by which the State may legitimately restrict individual conduct, so as to prevent harm or address harms that have already occurred. In some areas, however, the criminal law ...

Advancing Rights for Women: The Role of Litigation

Luisa Cabal
2006

Litigation is becoming an increasingly attractive advocacy tool for human rights movements around the world. It has served as an effective strategy not only for reforming or enforcing laws that deny or protect basic human rights, but also for raising awareness of and mobilizing support for human ...

Importance of Incorporating Access to Emergency Contraception Within a Human Rights Framework: The Latin American Experience

Luisa Cabal

In recent years, conservative groups in Latin America have opposed laws and policies that ensure women’s access to reproductive health services such as abortion, family planning and emergency contraception. Cumulatively, these can have a negative impact on women’s health and their access to other ...

Using Litigation to Address Gender Violations in the HIV/AIDS Context

Luisa Cabal, Pardiss Kebriaei
2006