Four years ago, we traveled to Gulu in northern Uganda, the epicenter of the war between the Lord´s Resistance Army (LRA) and the government of Museveni. The recent ruling of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the case Prosecutor vs. Dominic Ongwen, one of the LRA’s commanders, reminded us of that experience.

In March of 2020, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) issued an emblematic judgment in the court case of Azul Rojas Marín and other Vs. Peru, establishing legal standards with the potential of reducing the levels of violence suffered by the LGBTI community in the Americas and globally.

It is now common to talk about or have information on femicides in Latin America, both for the general public and for most judicial system officials.

The process of organizing a network for gender-based violence strategic litigation in Latin America began with our interest in exploring how national jurisdictions had dealt with reports of rape and other forms of sexual violence in several countries in the region that had faced situations of widespread violence or conflict.