This article will analyze the main effects and threats that, because of the pandemic caused by the Covid-19 disease, evidence sexual and reproductive rights worldwide, affecting their exercise as a result of the measures taken by the States to protect the population and product of this study, to establish those mechanisms and guidelines that are capable of further reinforcing their due protection, based on the recommendations that the main International Organizations have made. The measures and protocols that Chile has established in the protection of sexual and reproductive rights in a period of pandemic by Covid-19 will be described in parallel. It is through a joint effort, among the actors of civil and political society, in conjunction with international bodies, that the current scenario in which fundamental rights are immersed must be addressed with concern and their recovery in the full exercise of them.
Keywords:
Sexual and reproductive rights, human rights, international law, Covid-19, state of constitutional exception
Author Biography
Alejandra Isabel Pérez Ceballos, Universidad Autónoma de Chile
Alejandra Isabel Pérez Ceballos es abogada y licenciada en Ciencias Jurídicas de la Universidad Bernardo O’Higgins, Chile. Magíster en Derecho Público en la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Chile. Profesora de Derecho Constitucional en la Universidad Autónoma de Chile
Pérez Ceballos, A. I. (2020). The protection of sexual and reproductive rights in times of Covid-19. Anuario De Derechos Humanos, 16(2), 437–458. https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-2279.2020.59190