Integrating Gender into Legal Education and Legal Doctrine in
Latin America
About the Project
In 1997, Global Partnerships on Gender and the Law launched the Transforming Women's Legal Status: Integrating Gender into Legal Education and Legal Doctrine in Latin America Project to address gender bias in the legal systems and gender violence, and to strengthen women's legal status in Latin America.
The goals and objectives of the Project were rooted in the findings of 1996 Pan American Consultation of Legal and Health Experts. The consultation found that the traditional model of Latin American legal education was a great obstacle to achieving women's rights, and that there is an urgent need for legal doctrine that embodies an understanding of gender.
In response, the Global Partnerships on Gender and the Law undertook unprecedented measures to create new legal doctrine that embodies an understanding of gender and to begin the process of integrating women's human rights into legal education in Latin American countries.
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** The Transforming Women's Legal Status: Integrating Gender Into Legal Doctrine and Legal Education in Latin America was made possible through support provided by the Promoting Women in Development Grants Program at the International Center for Research on Women, through the United States Agency for International Development, Office of Women in Development; the Inter-American Development Bank; and the Ford Foundation.
