Gender Justice in the Americas: A Transnational Dialogue on Sexuality, Violence, Reproduction and Human Rights

This article discusses utilizing an international human rights framework as a tool for gender, sexuality, and women’s rights advocacy in the USA and Canada and to reflect on the potential for domestic impact litigation in the Caribbean and Latin America. The article discusses an approach that involves bridging geographic, linguistic, conceptual, and professional divides to foster the development of an “Inter-American Gender Justice Network” in the Western hemisphere. Three landmark cases are discussed, Jessica Lenahan (Gonzales) v United States, In re Campo Algodonero, and Karen Atala v Chile. These cases are all landmark cases for the Inter-American Court on Human Rights. The article discusses both positive and negative movements in the Western hemisphere that have gained traction lately.