Journal Citation:
44 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW, 1305-09 (1995).
This brief note suggests that international human rights law can play a valuable role in promoting and enforcing women's rights in Latin America, given the return to democracy in Latin America, the weakening of the principle of non-intervention in the Organization of American States (OAS), and the development of important and flexible norms in international human rights law. As for substantive law, the author notes that Article 24 of the American Convention on Human Rights provides an autonomous right to nondiscrimination which could be interpreted broadly to include, for example, women's right to health. The author points to two new treaties (the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Irradication of Violence Against Women, and the Additional Protocol to the American Convention in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) as evidence of the new Latin American focus on women's rights. [Descriptors: Applying Human Rights Law - International, International - Latin America]