• A new conservative social movement? Latin America’s regional strategies to restrict abortion rights 

      Malca, Camila Gianella; Sieder, Rachel; Peñas, Angelica; Machado, Marta Rodriguez de Assis (CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 5, Report, 2017-06-01)
      Despite increased evidence of international lobbying groups working to restrict sexual and reproductive health and rights policies at international bodies such as the United Nations, little is known about transnational ...
    • Acceso a la justicia para las mujeres indígenas en América Latina 

      Sieder, Rachel; Sierra, María Teresa (CMI Working Paper WP 2011: 2, Working paper, 2011-02-09)
      Este informe ofrece un panorama de los desafíos que mujeres indígenas en América Latina enfrentan cuando acceden a la justicia oficial y a los sistemas de justicia indígena. El mismo se enfoca en los marcos normativos, la ...
    • Indigenous women's access to justice in Latin America 

      Sieder, Rachel; Sierra, Maria Teresa (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2010)
      This paper gives an overview of the challenges which indigenous women in Latin America face in accessing both formal state justice and indigenous legal systems, including a focus on normative frameworks, legal awareness, ...
    • Legal Pluralism And Indigenous Women’s Rights In Mexico: The Ambiguities Of Recognition 

      Sieder, Rachel (NYU Journal of International Law and Politics vol. 48 no. 4, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-06-01)
      This article explores the effects of the ambiguous recognition of indigenous or “customary” law in Mexico on the struggle of indigenous women to ensure their rights are respected. After outlining the history of legal changes ...
    • Mujeres en la judicatura en Guatemala. Experiencias entre profesionalización y captura política 

      Sieder, Rachel; Braconnier, Ana; De León, Camila (Research report, 2022-05-01)
      This report in Spanish analyses the situation of women judges in Guatemala, revealing the specifically gendered pressures they experience to limit their independence. By focusing on women's experiences of becoming and ...
    • Sexual and reproductive rights - a global legal battlefield 

      Gianella, Camila; Gloppen, Siri; Sieder, Rachel; Yamin, Alicia (CMI Brief vol. 12 no. 1, Report, 2013-04-01)
      Millennium Development Goal number 5 (MDG 5) aims to reduce maternal mortality. In this brief we argue that, in the current global context more rigorous research focusing on the legal battles around women’s sexual and ...
    • The Moderating influence of international courts on social movements: Evidence from the IVF case against Costa Rica 

      Lemaitre, Julieta; Sieder, Rachel (Health and Human Rights Journal vol. 19 no. 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-01-01)
      Feminists and religious conservatives across the globe have increasingly turned to courts in their battles over abortion. Yet while a significant literature analyzes legal mobilization on abortion issues, it tends to focus ...
    • Women and Legal Pluralism: Lessons from Indigenous Governance Systems in the Andes 

      Sieder, Rachel; Vivero, Anna Barrera (Journal of Latin American Studies, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-01-01)
      The shift towards legally plural multicultural and pluri-national citizenship regimes in the Andes formally recognised indigenous peoples’ community-based governance systems. These tend to emphasise participation, deliberation ...
    • Women and legal pluralism: Lessons from indigenous governance systems in the Andes 

      Barrera, Anna; Sieder, Rachel (Journal of Latin American Studies vol. 49 no. 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-01-01)
      The shift towards legally plural multicutural and pluri-national citizenship regimes in the Andes formally recognised indigenous peoples' community-based governance systems. These tend to emphasise participation, deliberation ...
    • Women in the Judiciary in Guatemala: Living between Professionalization and Political Capture 

      Sieder, Rachel; Braconnier, Ana; De León, Camila (CMI Working Paper WP 2022:2, Working paper, 2022-07-01)
      Studies of female judges have tended to focus on the Global North, analyzing the factors that explain the presence or absence of women in the courts, the impact of informal institutional cultures on their professional ...