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What causes Latin America’s high incidence of adolescent pregnancy?
CMI Brief | Nov 2017
Latin America is the only region in the world where adolescent pregnancies are not decreasing. According to a recent article in the Lancet, ...
teen pregnancies, pregnancy, adolescent, pregnancies, sustainable development goal, Latin America, Argentina, Brazil, El Salvador, Peru, Colombia, Uruguay, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Panama, Ecuador
Abortion Rights Lawfare in Latin America
Project | Jul 2014 - Jun 2017
The project analyses the strategic use of rights and law in battles over abortion rights in Latin America – and the various effects of ...
Abortion, lawfare, legal mobilization, right to life, right to health, religion, transnational activist networks, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, El Salvador
Agents or Guardians: The military and civil society in Latin America and the Middle East
Project | Jan 2012 - Jan 2013
As a direct response to Norway’s “Brazil strategy” of enhancing research cooperation on global issues between Norway and Brazil, ...
Reconceptualising Transitional Justice: The Latin American Experience
Project | Sep 2010 - Dec 2014
This research project, funded by the Latin America Programme of the Norwegian Research Council, has had several objectives:
First, the project ...
transitional justice, impact, truth commissions, trials, amnesty, reparations, democratisation, impunity, accountability, Latin America, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay
Beyond Words: Latin American Truth Commissions' Recommendations
Project | Oct 2014 - Dec 2017
Over the past three decades, over 40 countries have established truth commissions (TCs) to investigate past patterns of gross human rights violations ...
Latin America, truth commissions, recommendations, impact assessment, democratization, accountability, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia, Peru, El Salvador, Guatemala, Equador, Panama, Colombia, Haiti
Contested Powers: Towards a Political Anthropology of Energy in Latin America
Project | May 2010 - May 2013
Struggles for natural resources have taken place throughout the tumultuous history of Latin America. However, in recent decades a new wave of ...
New development strategies and new alliances in Latin America ...and what is Obama's response?
Event | 30 Apr 2010
Is Obama's foreign policy towards Latin America any different than that of Bush? Is Venezuela's economy going down the drain? What does the development of left-leaning governments in Latin America mean for the future of the continent? And is the US re-militarizing Latin America?
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Courts and power in Latin America and Africa
Book | Mar 2010
Why do courts hold political power-holders accountable in some democratic and democratizing countries, but not in others? And, why do ...
Courts, power, political accountability
Indigenous Women's Access to Justice in Latin America
Journal Article | Jan 2011
Taking dominant narratives of human rights progress and skepticism in Latin America as my point of departure, I explore in this article an alternative ...
Latin America
Rainbow revolution in Latin America: The battle for recognition
CMI Brief | Feb 2015
In a surprising turn of events, a “rainbow revolution” has blossomed in Latin America. In spite of the region’s long history ...
Costa Rica, Colombia
Transitional Justice in Latin America: The Uneven Road from Impunity towards Accountability
Edited Book | May 2016
This is the first book to comprehensively and systematically trace the trajectory from impunity towards accountability for past human rights ...
transitional justice, impunity, accountability, Latin America, human rights, law, truth commissions, trials, reparations, amnesty, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay
The Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America
Edited Book | Dec 2019
Understanding law and its efficacy in Latin America demands concepts distinct from the hegemonic notions of rule of law which have dominated ...
A new conservative social movement? Latin America’s regional strategies to restrict abortion rights
CMI Brief | Jun 2017
Despite increased evidence of international lobbying groups working to restrict sexual and reproductive health and rights policies at international ...
reproductive health, abortion, Latin America
Women and law in Latin America: Justice, Security and Legal Pluralism
Project | Dec 2009 - Dec 2012
This research project seeks to explore the relationship between legal pluralism – the multiple norms, institutions, practices and beliefs ...
Contested Powers: The Politics and Anthropology of Energy
Project | Aug - Dec 2009
Struggles for natural resources have taken place throughout the tumultuous history of Latin America. However, in recent decades a new wave of ...
Democratization and the judiciary. The accountability function of courts in new democracies
Edited Book | Jan 2004
This volume examines the political role of courts in new democracies in Latin America and Africa. Are the courts able to hold political power-holders ...
democratisation, judicial power, courts, political questions and judicial power, Africa: South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia., Americas: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Latin America
Cultures of legality: Judicialization and political activism in Latin America
Edited Book | May 2010
Ideas about law are undergoing dramatic change in Latin America. The consolidation of democracy as the predominant form of government and the ...
Indigenous women's access to justice in Latin America
CMI Working Paper | Dec 2010
This paper gives an overview of the challenges which indigenous women in Latin America face in accessing both formal state justice and indigenous ...
Women's rights, Indigenous population, Justice, Latin America
The legal foundations of inequality. Constitutionalism in the Americas 1776-1860
Book | Sep 2010
The long revolutionary movements that gave birth to constitutional democracies in the Americas were founded on egalitarian constitutional ideals. ...
United States, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela
Norwegian Research on Human Rights and Justice in Latin America
Book Chapter | Aug 2016
Norwegian Research on Human Rights and Justice in Latin America Elin Skaar and Jemima Garcia-Godos
human rights, research, courts, Latin America, Latin America