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In The Right Direction, Family Diversity In The Inter-American System Of Human Rights, Macarena Sáez May 2019

In The Right Direction, Family Diversity In The Inter-American System Of Human Rights, Macarena Sáez

Macarena Saez

This 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 …


Amicus Curiae Agosto 9 2017 Centro De Derechos Humanos Auwcl.Pdf, Macarena Sáez Aug 2017

Amicus Curiae Agosto 9 2017 Centro De Derechos Humanos Auwcl.Pdf, Macarena Sáez

Macarena Saez

Amicus Curiae presentado al Tribunal Constitucional de Chile, que analiza el Proyecto de Ley que Regula la Despenalización de la Interrupción Voluntaria del Embarazo en Tres Causales, Boletín N. 9.895-11, a la luz de las obligaciones de derecho internacional de los derechos humanos suscritas por Chile.
El Memorial establece:
1.Como consideración preliminar, que no es competencia de órganos legales nacionales o internacionales determinar el comienzo de la vida humana desde una perspectiva científica, ni el comienzo de la persona desde una perspectiva moral, religiosa o filosófica.
2.Que el derecho internacional, al igual que las estructuras legales nacionales, fue …


Same-Sex Couples - Comparative Insights On Marriage And Cohabitation, Macarena Sáez Apr 2015

Same-Sex Couples - Comparative Insights On Marriage And Cohabitation, Macarena Sáez

Macarena Saez

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 …