Direitos Sexuais no Sistema Interamericano de Direitos Humanos

Abstract

From continuous processes of revaluation and legal and social recognition of sexual minorities in the Latin American scenario, the emergence of sexual citizenship appears as a mechanism capable of making possible the democratization of public space and the parity of participation of persons belonging to sexual minorities in different forms of exercise of human rights, in addition to functioning as an important mechanism for the elimination of hierarchical social relations that are established between the LGBTQIA + population and heterosexual subjects. Condemned in 2012, the first decision of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on sexual and reproductive rights is in the case of Karen Atala Riffo and Girls v. Chile, which culminated in the Chilean conviction for the violation of the victim's sexual rights, especially for the premise argued by her ex-husband in the sense that her relationship with another woman would negatively influence the development of the daughters of her. This article aims to discuss the impacts of the case in question as an expression of sexual citizenship in the inter-American context. Methodologically, the article is based on a descriptive documentary research, in which the development is carried out in accordance with the literature on the rights of sexual citizenship and with the narrative presented in the sentence. It is concluded that, in addition to the rhetorical resource, consider the decision of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the case of Atala Riffo and Girls v. Chile as an expression of sexual citizenship in the inter-American context means recognizing its own characteristics as a vehicle for the narrative of the struggle for access to human rights, driven by the demands of the victim in the face of the institutionalized violation of her sexual rights.