Academia, Género,
Derecho y Sexualidad.
Directora Ejecutiva de la División de Derecho de las Mujeres en Human Rights Watch
En el marco de la Red, fue Co-Fundadora de la institución. Ha sido Coordinadora y ha formado parte del Comité Ejecutivo. Ha sido co-editora de la publicación Gender and Sexuality in Latin America - Cases and Decisions. Co-editora académica de La Mirada de los Jueces: Género en la Jurisprudencia Latinoamericana y La Mirada de los Jueces: Sexualidades diversas en la Jurisprudencia Latinoamericana.
Licenciada en Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas por la Universidad de Chile y Máster (LL.M.) por la Yale University.
Ha sido Profesora en la American University Washington College of Law, en Washington D.C., donde se desempeñó como Profesora y como Directora Académica del Centro de Derechos Humanos y Derecho Humanitario. Ha sido, asimismo, Profesora en la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Chile y Visiting Researcher de Georgetown University Law Center. Ha sido Consultora en el Inter-American Development Bank (IADB).
Es experta en las áreas de derecho de familia, derecho comparado, litigio estratégico en derechos humanos y derecho y sexualidades diversas.
En su trayectoria pueden encontrarse los siguientes reconocimientos: Premio a la Innovación en Pedagogía, febrero de 2018. Otorgado por el American University Washingyon College of Law por nominaciones de colegas y estudiantes.
Premio William M. LeoGrande, abril de 2016. Otorgado por American University Center for Latin American and Latin Studies and the School of Public Affairs, por el mejor libro o artículo académico sobre estudios latinoamericanos o latinos publicado por un miembro de la comunidad de American University en 2014-2015.
Ha sido Profesora de Género y Sexualidad, Derecho de Familia, Derecho Comparado y Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos.
Litiga ante el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos y ha sido llamada a dar su testimonio experto en temas de derecho de familia y derechos humanos ante la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos y la Corte Constitucional de Colombia.
Ha escrito libros y artículos en temas de género y sexualidad, derecho de familia y derechos humanos. Sus últimas publicaciones se relacionan con el rol de los derechos humanos en la protección de las familias diversas, matrimonio igualitario y el concepto de dignidad laica en la discusión sobre sexualidad y reproducción.
Lectura detenida y de explícita finalidad pedagógica de algunas de las más importantes decisiones jurisprudenciales de jueces latinoamericanos en relación con los derechos de las mujeres y las sexualidades diversas. El primer tomo aborda la jurisprudencia regional en relación con las mujeres y el segundo la que se refiere a las sexualidades divergentes. Destaca la decisiva transformación de la co
Lectura detenida y de explícita finalidad pedagógica de algunas de las más importantes decisiones jurisprudenciales de jueces latinoamericanos en relación con los derechos de las mujeres y las sexualidades diversas. El primer tomo aborda la jurisprudencia regional en relación con las mujeres y el segundo la que se refiere a las sexualidades divergentes. Destaca la decisiva transformación de la con
Translated and updated from the seminal Spanish text on legal decisions affecting gender and sexuality in Latin America, this English edition is the only law text to focus specifically on the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and the transgender population in addition to women’s rights more broadly. The volume provides close analysis of some of the most important decisions made by Latin American national courts, as well as those made by international legal bodies, that affect the rights and interests of these groups. Specially selected for their depth of argument and value as exemplars, the studies of good legal practice chart the path of the region’s normative values of justice as they have evolved away from a partial, and patriarchal, exercise of the law. They show how cases with vastly differing contexts such as, property rights and domestic violence have resulted in a mixed body of Latin American law. Some decisions are protective of women’s and minority rights. Some assess the wider social impacts of case law in which recognition of the discrete legal identities within households challenges established precepts, including religious ones. Other cases have been chosen as cautionary examples of bad decision-making and for the poverty of their legal debate. Updated to include the latest relevant jurisprudence from across the continent, this book is an informed, cohesive and comprehensive guide to understanding women’s and gender-based rights in Latin America.
AccederLa mirada de los jueces / Bogotá: Siglo del Hombre Editores, American University Washington College of Law, Center for Reproductive Rights, 2008.
Contenido: v.1 Género en la jurisprudencia latinoamericana. – v. 2 Sexualidades diversas en la jurisprudencia latinoamericana
1. Mujeres - Condiciones sociales - América Latina 2. Igualdad de la mujer - América Latina 3. Derechos de la mujer - América Latina 4. Derecho de familia - América Latina 5. Sexualidad - Aspectos sociales - América Latina 6. Heterosexualidad - América Latina 7. Homosexualidad - Legislación - América Latina I. Motta, Cristina, comp. II. Sáez, Macarena, comp.
This book shows six different realities of same-sex families. They range from full recognition of same-sex marriage to full invisibility of gay and lesbian individuals and their families. The broad spectrum of experiences presented in this book share some commonalities: in all of them legal scholars and civil society are moving legal boundaries or thinking of spaces within rigid legal systems for same-sex families to function. In all of them there have been legal claims to recognize the existence of same-sex families. The difference between them lies in the response of courts. Regardless of the type of legal system, when courts have viewed claims of same-sex couples and their families as problems of individual rights, they have responded with a constitutional narrative protecting same-sex couples and their families. When courts respond to these claims with rigid concepts of what a family is and what marriage is as if legal concepts where unmodifiable, same-sex couples have remained outside the protection of the law.
Until forty years ago marriage was the only union considered legitimate to form a family. Today more than 30 countries have granted rights to same sex couples, including several that have opened up marriage to couples of the same sex. Every day there is a new bill being discussed or a new claim being brought to courts seeking formal recognition of same sex couples. Not all countries are open to changing their legal structures to accommodate same-sex couples, but even those with no visible changes are witnessing new voices in their communities challenging the status quo and envisioning more flexible legal systems.
This book provides new, feminist perspectives on famous family law cases that span generations. The chapters take court decisions and rewrite them with feminist ideas in mind. Each rewritten opinion is penned by a leading scholar who relied only on materials available at the time of the original decision. The decisions address topics such as the criminalization of polygamy, intimate partner violence as a ground for asylum, the legality of gestational surrogacy, the rights of cohabitants, discrimination against transgender parents, immigration rules governing non-citizen parents, and child welfare and child support systems, among others. Each opinion is accompanied by a commentary that explains the original opinion as well as its contemporary relevance, and each commentary also is authored by a respected scholar. The combination of a rewritten opinion and its commentary provides an in-depth examination of the most important topics in family law.
AccederTranslated and updated from the seminal Spanish text on legal decisions affecting gender and sexuality in Latin America, this English edition is the only law text to focus specifically on the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and the transgender population in addition to women’s rights more broadly. The volume provides close analysis of some of the most important decisions made by Latin American national courts, as well as those made by international legal bodies, that affect the rights and interests of these groups. Specially selected for their depth of argument and value as exemplars, the studies of good legal practice chart the path of the region’s normative values of justice as they have evolved away from a partial, and patriarchal, exercise of the law. They show how cases with vastly differing contexts such as, property rights and domestic violence have resulted in a mixed body of Latin American law. Some decisions are protective of women’s and minority rights. Some assess the wider social impacts of case law in which recognition of the discrete legal identities within households challenges established precepts, including religious ones. Other cases have been chosen as cautionary examples of bad decision-making and for the poverty of their legal debate. Updated to include the latest relevant jurisprudence from across the continent, this book is an informed, cohesive and comprehensive guide to understanding women’s and gender-based rights in Latin America.
This is part of the Human Rights in Practice series, which is co-sponsored by the International Human Rights Clinic, and Center for International and Comparative Law. Co-sponsors include Outlaw, Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke Human Rights Center at the Kenan Institute for Ethics, International Law Society, and Human Rights Law Society.
AccederThis Article argues that the Inter-American System of Human Rights has contributed to a family system that embraces gender equality and non-heterosexual and gender non-conforming families. It argues that the system had, from its inception, an expansive idea of the family that included associations outside marriage. This was the basis for a robust development of the concepts of equality and non-discrimination by the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Although the IACtHR has only decided a handful of cases related to the non-heterosexual family, its rich case law on equality and the right to family is favorable to family diversity, including marriage equality. The Inter-Amerrican system, however, must be careful not to fall into the trap of privileging the married family after so much progress towards family diversity.
AccederThe issues of gender, sexuality and reproduction have gained a strong public presence in Latin America in recent years. Political agendas have begun gradually to include topics related to LGBTI rights and access of people "especially women " to reproductive justice. In some cases, these processes have generated policies, laws and judgments favorable to women and LGBTI movements?s demands. For example, in recent years, countries as diverse as Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil allowed same-sex marriage, whether through the adoption of laws or by favorable rulings, after broad political and social debates. Other countries, including Ecuador, Costa Rica and Chile, still do not recognize same-sex marriage, but have allowed civil unions. Argentina and Bolivia also adopted laws of gender identity which, among other things, guarantee the right to recognition of self-perceived identity over the one assigned at birth. Moreover, in recent years, Uruguay and the Federal District of Mexico have legalized abortion under a trimester-based system, while other countries have expanded the decriminalized grounds for terminating a pregnancy voluntarily, despite maintaining the illegality of abortion.However, the successful expansion of rights with respect to gender, sexuality and reproduction, is not a linear process or free from controversy and backlashes. In 1997, for example, El Salvador banned abortion without exception, a decision emulated by Nicaragua in 2007. In 2015, the Peruvian Congress rejected the adoption of a civil union law. In addition, since at least 1998 Latin America has seen a wave of litigation and legislative processes against emergency contraception (Peñas Defago and Morán Faúndes, 2014). Some of these have been reversed. In Chile, a law was passed in 2010 during Michelle Bachelet?s first administration (2006-2010) allowing the public health system to provide emergency contraception, which reversed an unfavorable ruling of the Constitutional Court in 2008. In Honduras and elsewhere, however, bans on emergency contraception remain.Considering the ongoing and often public controversy around these issues, it is necessary to develop and deepen the frames through which we understand how these dynamics unfold in the region. To this end, the contributors to this special issue understand gender and sexuality as public and political fields characterized by tensions, disputes and struggles over power, including state power.
AccederTranslated and updated from the seminal Spanish text on legal decisions affecting gender and sexuality in Latin America, this English edition is the only law text to focus specifically on the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and the transgender population in addition to women’s rights more broadly. The volume provides close analysis of some of the most important decisions made by Latin American national courts, as well as those made by international legal bodies, that affect the rights and interests of these groups. Specially selected for their depth of argument and value as exemplars, the studies of good legal practice chart the path of the region’s normative values of justice as they have evolved away from a partial, and patriarchal, exercise of the law. They show how cases with vastly differing contexts such as, property rights and domestic violence have resulted in a mixed body of Latin American law. Some decisions are protective of women’s and minority rights. Some assess the wider social impacts of case law in which recognition of the discrete legal identities within households challenges established precepts, including religious ones. Other cases have been chosen as cautionary examples of bad decision-making and for the poverty of their legal debate. Updated to include the latest relevant jurisprudence from across the continent, this book is an informed, cohesive and comprehensive guide to understanding women’s and gender-based rights in Latin America.
AccederThis book shows six different realities of same-sex families. They range from full recognition of same-sex marriage to full invisibility of gay and lesbian individuals and their families. The broad spectrum of experiences presented in this book share some commonalities: in all of them legal scholars and civil society are moving legal boundaries or thinking of spaces within rigid legal systems for same-sex families to function. In all of them there have been legal claims to recognize the existence of same-sex families. The difference between them lies in the response of courts. Regardless of the type of legal system, when courts have viewed claims of same-sex couples and their families as problems of individual rights, they have responded with a constitutional narrative protecting same-sex couples and their families. When courts respond to these claims with rigid concepts of what a family is and what marriage is as if legal concepts where unmodifiable, same-sex couples have remained outside the protection of the law.
Until forty years ago marriage was the only union considered legitimate to form a family. Today more than 30 countries have granted rights to same sex couples, including several that have opened up marriage to couples of the same sex. Every day there is a new bill being discussed or a new claim being brought to courts seeking formal recognition of same sex couples. Not all countries are open to changing their legal structures to accommodate same-sex couples, but even those with no visible changes are witnessing new voices in their communities challenging the status quo and envisioning more flexible legal systems.
Peritaje sobre los estándares internacionales que determinan las obligaciones estatales frente al derecho a la protección de la familia o de la vida familiar, incluyendo familias diversas como las compuestas por personas del mismo sexo, incluyendo referencias relevantes de derecho constitucional comparado.
AccederCONTENIDO: La ciudadanía como aspiración: igualdad, reparación y emancipación - La ciudadanía como pertenencia: identidad y cultura - La ciudadanía como práctica - Formas y sustancias de la igualdad - Respuestas frente a la diferencia - Mecanismos de la dominación - La familia nuclear como ideal - Igualdad de derechos en la familia e inclusión de familias diversas - La maternidad y el cuidado - Violencia sexual y no sexual en la familia - Derecho a la vida y derecho a la salud - Las consecuencias positivas y negativas de vincular la identidad femenina con la maternidad y el acceso a la propiedad - La consagración del acceso privilegiado a la propiedad - Las tensiones entre grupos marginados - Las paradojas de la penalización.
AccederThis entry on sexual orientation and the law (SO&L) analyzes the legal treatment of the categories sexual orientation and gender identity and the impact of legal practices, doctrines, and customs in the lives of individuals and groups who define themselves or are defined by societies, communities, or other individuals as non‐heterosexuals. The entry provides a summary of the main areas of development of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and intersex individuals (LGBTIs) and their rights, and also the main obstacles encountered by LGBTIs in different legal systems. It covers the main features of criminalizing sexual conducts and the new topics covered by SO&L today including the rights of trans people and LGBTI families. It also analyzes the main arguments provided by courts to advance LGBTI rights and the role of international law in the protection of sexual minorities.
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