FGV’s Sao Paulo Law School (Direito SP) professors Marta Machado, Camila Gonçalves, and Catarina Barbieri participated in the event ‘Beyond Human Rights: Rethinking Gender Equality in Law and Politics,’ held at Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), on October 19-20.

Catarina Barbieri presented the work ‘Feminist Perspectives as a Challenge to Conventional Jurisprudence’ in one of two panels that discussed the topic Constitutionalism, Rights, and Gender Equity. Marta Machado, an expert in Criminal Law, presented the topic ‘Anti-abortion Movement in Brazil and Conservative Uses of the Rights Discourse’ on the panel that discussed Democracy, Mobilization, and Counter Mobilization.

Finally, Camila De Jesus Mello Gonçalves presented the paper ‘Facing Protection for Transsexuals and Non-Binary Identities under the Brazilian Law No. 11.340/2006, Lei Maria da Penha, designed to Address Violence against Women’ on the panel that discussed work involving Gender Equality and Women’s Bodies.

For the professors, gender equality is an issue that goes beyond borders and requires greater collaboration among those studying the subject.

“The role of law in promoting gender equity surpasses the limits of the law itself, requiring an approach with other sciences to make a more precise diagnosis of the challenges to be faced,” they said.    

In addition to Marta Machado, the meeting was organized by Sandra Fredman, Helena Aviar, and Catherine Albertin, representatives of a network of universities that includes Direito SP, Los Andes, Witts (South Africa), and Oxford (United Kingdom). This was the group’s second meeting. The first was in a seminar on Gender, Race, and Poverty, held in 2014 at Direito SP.