Defago, María Angélica Peñas, and José Manuel Morán Faúndes (2016)
Religião & Sociedade 35.2 (2015): 340-362.
Although the hierarchy of the Catholic Church and some evangelical churches continue to be the central opposition to sexual and reproductive rights (SRR), in recent decades, various sectors from the civil society have also begun to get politically active with the purpose of resisting the advance of the SRR agenda. Several “pro-life” NGOs are becoming […]
Faúndes, José Manuel Morán, and María Angélica Peñas Defago (2016)
Latin American Perspectives 43.3 (2016): 144-162.
Over the past few decades political processes recognizing and broadening sexual and reproductive rights have produced a reaction from conservative sectors seeking to block those gains. Although the Catholic Church hierarchy and some Evangelical churches have led the opposition to these rights, various sectors of civil society have begun to foment resistance to pluralist sexual […]
Defago Peñas, M. A. (2016)
In "Abortion: Rights and Limits of Women´s Freedom". Ed. Godinho, A.; Salomao Leite, G. & Dadalto, L. GZ Editorial, Rio de Janeiro.
Bergallo, P. (2016)
In "Debates y Reflexiones en Torno a la Despenalización del Aborto en Chile". Ed. Lidia Casas & Delfina Lawson. Ediciones Loñ, Santiago
Bergallo, P. (2016)
In "El aborto en el derecho transnacional: Casos y controversias". Ed. Rebecca Cook, Joanna Erdman, Bernard Dickens. Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico.
Kolmannskog, Vikram (2016)
Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal 3.8
This paper explores the legal mobilisation in India against section 377, the anti-sodomy legislation originally introduced by the British. The first part explores the legal mobilisation as experienced by sexual and gender minority activists themselves. In the second part, some themes that have emerged as important are discussed in light of existing research and literature […]
Emily Maistrellis, Victoria Chia and Alicia El Yamin (2016)
Harvard FXB Center Working Paper
As state legislatures across the United States usher in health-justified abortion restrictions, courts are increasingly called upon to analyze the effects of these laws on women’s rights, and to evaluate the role that empirical evidence should play in this analysis. Examples from a systematic review of 70 state and federal cases challenging the constitutionality of […]
Bergallo, Paola, and Agustina Ramón Michel (2016)
International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics 135.2 (2016): 228-231.
For most of the 20th Century, restrictive abortion laws were in place in continental Latin America. In recent years, reforms have caused a liberalizing shift, supported by constitutional decisions of the countries’ high courts. The present article offers an overview of the turn toward more liberal rules and the resolution of abortion disputes by reference […]
Alicia Ely Yamin, Liiri Oja (2016)
Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Global fellow at The Centre on Law and Social Transformation, Alicia Ely Yamin, has together with Liiri Oja published the article ” “Woman” in the European Human Rights System: How Is the Reproductive Rights Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights Constructing Narratives of Women’s Citizenship?”, in Columbia Journal of Gender and Law. Yamin and Oja argue that […]
