#  Anti-Gender Politics in Latin America 

 



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####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 14, 2024** 

 12:15PM - 01:30PM EST 

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 **Hauser 105**  



 

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Anti-gender politics have played an extremely important part in conservative movements in Latin America, as well as across the world. Anti-democratic leaders share a common script of where the “dangers of gender ideology” are used to rally support from electorates and often serve as pretext for distracting the public from other issues such as economic precarity and civil liberties restrictions. These leaders and movements tend to stress defense of the traditional family, protection of children against harmful influences, and demonization of non-heteronormative sexuality and gender identities and expressions, comprehensive sex education, abortion, and surrogacy. This event will discuss these trends as well as counter-mobilizations occurring in the region.

Panelists:

**Julissa Mantilla Falcón,** a former member and president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, specializes in human rights and has a degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), a diploma in Gender from the PUCP, and an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) at the University of London. She worked in the Peruvian Ombudspersons Office and was in charge of gender issues in the Commission for Truth and Reconciliation in Peru. She has served as an international consultant on transitional justice for UN Women. She is a professor at the Law School and has a master’s degree in Human Rights at the PUCP and at the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the American University’s Washington College of Law. She has lectured internationally and authored several academic publications.

**Alicia Ely Yamin** a Lecturer on Law and a Senior Fellow on Global Health and Rights at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School; Adjunct Senior Lecturer on Health Policy and Management at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; and Senior Advisor on Human Rights and Health Policy at the global health justice organization, Partners In Health.

*This event is sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics, HRP, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, La Alianza and Advocates for Human Rights at HLS.*

This is a hybrid event. [For attendance via Zoom, please register online](https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DtX9ZqmcSyC6quxeDOVzzg).



 

 



 

 

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