Authors: Camila Gianella Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado Angélica Peñas Defago Latin America is the only region in the world where adolescent pregnancies are not decreasing. According to a recent article in the Lancet, if the current trend continues, Latin American countries will not fulfill the sustainable development goal on adolescent pregnancy by 2030. This underperformance has […]
Ana Cristina González Vélez and Isabel Cristina Jaramillo (2017)
The article is one of three recent publications from the project Abortion Rights Lawfare in Latin America. In May 2006, Colombia’s Constitutional Court liberalized abortion, introducing three circumstances under which the procedure would not be considered a crime: (1) rape or incest; (2) a risk to the woman’s health or life; and (3) fetal malformations […]
Camila Gianella (2017)
The article is one of three recent publications from the project Abortion Rights Lawfare in Latin America. State and non-state actors engaged in disputes to expand and limit abortion rights have engaged in legal mobilization—in other words, strategies using rights and law as a central tool for advancing contested political goals. Peru, like other Latin […]
Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado and Débora Alves Maciel (2017)
The article is one of three recent publications from the project Abortion Rights Lawfare in Latin America. This article proposes a relational approach to the study of abortion law reform in Brazil. It focuses on the interaction of pro-choice and anti-abortion movements in different state arenas and political contexts. It details the emergence of a […]
Camila Gianella Malca, Rachel Sieder, Angelica Peñas and Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado (2017)
A new brief from the project Abortion Rights Lawfare in Latin America has recently come out. Despite increased evidence of international lobbying groups working to restrict sexual and reproductive health and rights policies at international bodies such as the United Nations, little is known about transnational networks working at local level to restrict abortion rights, how […]
Samia al-Nagar and Liv Tønnessen (2017)
Balghis Badri and Aili Marie Tripp: Women's activism in Africa. Zed books
Liv Tønnessen, who is a Steering Committee Member at the Centre on Law and Social Transformation, is one of the contributors to this volume. Throughout Africa, growing numbers of women are coming together and making their voices heard, mobilizing around causes ranging from democracy and land rights to campaigns against domestic violence. In countries such […]
Liv Tønnessen (2017)
Journal of International Women's studies vol. 18 no. 2
Sudanese women activists launched a legal campaign in 2009 calling attention to how the country’s Sharia based Criminal Act of 1991 produced impunity for sexual assault in the Darfur conflict. After years of mobilization, Sudan enacted a rape reform in 2015. While on the surface a success story, extensive interviews conducted in Khartoum suggest that […]
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 […]
What causes Latin America’s high incidence of adolescent pregnancy?