María Fernanda Perico

About/Bio

Maria Fernanda is a Lawyer from Universidad de los Andes and holds a Postgraduate degree in Human Rights Law from Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She is currently an LL.M. student at London School of Economics and Political Science under a Chevening Scholarship.

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Manuela et al. v. El Salvador: The Pitfalls of a Landmark Case for Reproductive Justice from a Torture Perspective

On November 30, 2021, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) published its judgment in Manuela et al v. El Salvador. ​​The case concerned El Salvador’s responsibility for the arbitrary detention, torture, and conviction of a woman who experienced an obstetric emergency and lost her pregnancy in 2008. The dispute took place in the context…

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