Access to justice for women and girls in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Access to justice for women and girls in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Publication type: Coeditions
- Publication corporate author (Institutional author): NU. CEPAL; UN Women
- Physical description: 66 pages
- Publisher: ECLAC; UN Women
- UN symbol (Signature): LC/TS.2026/12
- Date: March, 2026
Abstract
This document was developed in preparation for the seventieth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70), whose priority theme is “ensuring and strengthening access to justice for women and girls by promoting inclusive and equitable legal systems, eliminating discriminatory laws, policies, and practices, and addressing structural barriers that limit the effective exercise of their rights.” The process took place within the framework of the sixty-seventh Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The objective of this document and its recommendations is not only to advance toward the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women in the region, but also to contribute substantively from Latin America and the Caribbean in the area of access to justice, placing substantive equality, autonomy, and the right of women and girls to live free from violence at the center.
Table of contents
- I. Introduction
- II. International and regional framework on access to justice for women and girls
- III. Main advances and challenges in women's and girls' access to justice in the region
- IV. Final observations. Guaranteeing access to justice for all women and girls: A decade of action to achieve substantive equality and a care society
- V. Main normative, jurisprudential, and documentary sources consulted.