Human Rights

A comparative study of constitutional law in eleven Latin American jurisdictions, tracing gender-rights innovation alongside gaps in reasoning and implementation.

Rosa-Linda Fregoso reframes feminist witnessing through Mexico’s contra-feminicide movement, connecting memory, art, legal testimony, migration, and collective responsibility.

Katherine M. Marino recovers Latin American feminists as architects of global women’s rights, tracing how leadership and social justice reshaped Pan-American organizing.

A feminist reading of Latin American case law on reproductive autonomy, property, violence and queer family recognition - and the limits of judicial equality.

An interdisciplinary feminist and human-rights collection on feminicide in the Americas, state impunity, transnational economies, and the justice organizing of victims’ relatives.

Loretta J. Ross distinguishes public call-outs from invitations to dialogue: the latter can support accountability and change, but must not make harmed people responsible for endless patience and emotional labor.

Mexican journalist and activist Verónica Villalvazo explains the daily work of documenting feminicide and accompanying families when official institutions allow victims to disappear twice.

Tarana Burke traces Me Too from community organizing in 2006 to the global hashtag, centering survivor support, care after trauma and work beyond the media cycle.

Judith Heumann connects her struggle for education and public participation with the Section 504 protests, showing how collective organizing turns a legal promise into an enforceable right.

Argentine sex-worker organizer Georgina Orellano moves from a schoolyard story about her son to questions of stigma, collective organization and labor rights.

Shabana Basij-Rasikh recalls secret schools under the Taliban’s first regime and asks how girls’ right to learn depends on families, women teachers and collective support.