Author: Trudy Corrigan Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand ISBN: 1839688734 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 160
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This book is a collection of narratives and research that explores our understanding of human rights in the contemporary world. The chapters highlight the narrative and experiences of researchers and academics who seek to ensure that human rights are implemented in policies and practices in their communities, their countries, and the global world. The book presents contemporary themes of the United Nations Human Rights in terms of current policies and practices, legislative reform, property rights, liberty, security, and freedom of expression. It also provides a comprehensive understanding of the importance of human rights across a number of fields of study that are very relevant in our contemporary world today.
Author: Sandra Botero Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1009281941 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 225
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Courts around the world regularly issue rulings on the socioeconomic rights of citizens, but the impact of these decisions varies widely. This book compares the experiences of two very assertive high courts in Colombia and Argentina to examine the differing impacts of landmark socioeconomic rights decisions.
Author: Francisca Pou Giménez Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 104001058X Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 262
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This book discusses to what extent and how constitutional design and practice in Latin America have helped in combatting the subordination of women and LGBTQIA+ people. Covering 11 jurisdictions, the chapters identify the main elements of the constitutional gender order and survey jurisprudential and legislative developments in different areas, incorporating contextual analysis and references to history, political dynamics, social movements, feminist struggles, normative efficacy, and policy. In the context of a constitutionalism that has been celebrated as particularly innovative and socially engaged, the book assesses constitutional performance in the quest to supersede the separate gendered spheres tradition and the subordination of women and sexual minorities to heteronormative hegemony. It fills an important gap in the field of gender and constitutionalism, which has paid very little attention to Latin America compared to the Anglo-American legal world and continental Europe. It identifies regional trends, but also variables which account for the diversity of approaches in various jurisdictions. The book provides much-needed insight into matters that are relevant for legal and socio-legal scholars, an ever-growing number of social actors and movements, and all those interested in comparative constitutionalism and in the intersections between law and gender.
Author: Ana Cristina González Vélez Publisher: Siglo del Hombre Editores ISBN: 9586656527 Category : Law Languages : es Pages : 295
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A partir del 2000 y tras décadas de intensas luchas por la despenalización del aborto, las organizaciones de mujeres en América Latina se han dedicado a una multiplicidad y simultaneidad de estrategias para avanzar, ya no exclusivamente en la despenalización del aborto, sino en su liberalización y, en especial, en el acceso al aborto permitido en las legislaciones de distintos países. Este libro aborda el caso de la Mesa por la Vida y la Salud de las Mujeres, un actor local del movimiento feminista colombiano, que refleja la vocación transnacional del feminismo latinoamericano. Resalta sus contribuciones en materia de construcción de puentes entre actores de distintos movimientos; el uso del marco argumentativo de los derechos humanos como elemento distintivo para avanzar en la implementación del aborto legal y en el acompañamiento de casos. La estrategia sostenida a lo largo de los últimos diez años por este colectivo ha sido innovadora en relación con la construcción de conocimiento legal, a partir de la producción de una interpretación en derecho desde la sociedad civil y del acompañamiento de casos. También ha sido efectiva en excluir argumentos moralizadores y religiosos de los escenarios de debate público mediante sus acciones de incidencia en distintos foros públicos.
Author: Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 1496213831 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 411
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2020 Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) Book Prize In post-1968 Mexico a group of artists and feminist activists began to question how feminine bodies were visually constructed and politicized across media. Participation of women was increasing in the public sphere, and the exclusive emphasis on written culture was giving way to audio-visual communications. Motivated by a desire for self-representation both visually and in politics, female artists and activists transformed existing regimes of media and visuality. Women Made Visible by Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda uses a transnational and interdisciplinary lens to analyze the fundamental and overlooked role played by artists and feminist activists in changing the ways female bodies were viewed and appropriated. Through their concern for self-representation (both visually and in formal politics), these women played a crucial role in transforming existing regimes of media and visuality--increasingly important intellectual spheres of action. Foregrounding the work of female artists and their performative and visual, rather than written, interventions in urban space in Mexico City, Aceves Sepúlveda demonstrates that these women feminized Mexico's mediascapes and shaped the debates over the female body, gender difference, and sexual violence during the last decades of the twentieth century. Weaving together the practices of activists, filmmakers, visual artists, videographers, and photographers, Women Made Visible questions the disciplinary boundaries that have historically undermined the practices of female artists and activists and locates the development of Mexican second-wave feminism as a meaningful actor in the contested political spaces of the era, both in Mexico City and internationally.
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