Essays about: "Mónica Alejandra Escobedo Reyes"

Found 1 essay containing the words Mónica Alejandra Escobedo Reyes.

  1. 1. Indigenous justice in Guatemala: Indigenous women’s access to justice versus indigenous communities’ collective rights

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Mónica Alejandra Escobedo Reyes; [2022-05-20]
    Keywords : indigenous justice; indigenous women; indigenous girls; Guatemala; legal pluralism; feminism; human rights; women’s rights; indigenous peoples’ rights;

    Abstract : In 2016, the Constitutional Court of Guatemala ruled in favor of validating the application of ancestral justice by the indigenous authorities of the community of Comitancillo, San Marcos, to an individual who raped a 10-year-old girl. In addition to recognizing the application of an ancestral punishment that consisted in asking for forgiveness and receiving some lashings from members of his family as valid, the court ordered the dismissal of the case in the legal ordinary system, claiming the aggressor had already been judged and punished. READ MORE