Incorporation of Intersectional Analysis in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’s judgement about vulnerable groups, its relation to the interdependence and indivisibility of human rights

Abstract

The paper provides an analysis about the inclusion of intersectionality in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ judgments on vulnerable groups, its relation to the interdependence and indivisibility of human rights. The text analyzes: i) the emergence of intersectionality in the legal and political analysis through the critical legal studies; ii) the concept’s reception and its reviews in the social sciences, public policy and law; iii) its impact on the International Law of Human Rights; iv) its incorporation into the Inter-American Protection System of Human Rights, especially in pronouncements about women’s human rights -Commission and Inter-American Court; v) its potential for an interpretation of human rights as interdependent, interrelated and indivisible.