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Advancing Reproductive Justice In Latin America Through A Transitional Justice Lens, Rosario Grimà Algora
Advancing Reproductive Justice In Latin America Through A Transitional Justice Lens, Rosario Grimà Algora
Michigan Journal of Gender & Law
Reproductive autonomy is a pivotal part of women’s access to equal citizenship, yet it has not been included in any international nor regional human rights treaty. In the past decades, the U.N. Committees, notably the CEDAW Committee, and regional human rights bodies, particularly the Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights, have timidly advanced reproductive justice through their jurisprudence, including through the use of reparations. Drawing from the standards of reparations developed in the field of transitional justice, human rights bodies increasingly rely on reparations to enhance the transformative effects of their decisions. These reparations intend to include a …