International Legal Protection of Women in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Abstract
The issue of international protection of women’s rights has gained relevance in recent years. However, the Inter-American mechanisms are underestimated by scholars of international law. This research represents an overview of academic articles, books, documents of international organizations, and court decisions that create an image of the genesis of Inter-American mechanisms of women’s protection and expand on the current situation with women’s rights in the Americas. When we talk about the Inter-American system, we deal with all the member states of the Organization of American States (OAS), including the United States, Canada, and the thirty-three Latin American states. It is important to mention that Nicaragua withdrew from the OAS in November 2023; however, the state did not denounce any regional human rights treaties. While Cuba, whose government was excluded from the OAS in 1962, remains a dejure member of the Organization, since it has never denounced the OAS Charter and is bound by its international human rights obligations. These legal and political features need to be mentioned to accurately understand the real number of the OAS member states (at the current date, thirty-four), which may vary in different normative acts and research papers. However, in this article the author mostly focuses on the latter, considering the proactivity of Latin America and the Caribbean in establishing gender agenda and the accession of these states to the core regional human rights treaties, including the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women (the Belém do Pará Convention). The Inter-American system has offered a unique regional set of mechanisms for the protection of women from gender-based violence and discrimination. Thanks to the efforts of the Inter-American Commission of Women and the Follow-up Mechanism for the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women (MESECVI), it has become easier to hold the states accountable and monitor their compliance with international obligations. The jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court and its advisory jurisdiction have allowed it to enshrine such notions as “feminicide” in regional legal practice and prompted the states of the region to undertake steps toward the criminalization of domestic, sexual, psychological, and physical violence against women. While the region is on its path to adopting laws that penalize these crimes, Latin America is still known to be one of the most dangerous places for women. Although the OAS and its special bodies have done a lot to improve the life of women in the Americas, Latin American women are still a long way off from calling their home a safe place.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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