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Miscelánea

No. 32 (2023)

Challenging Barriers and Claiming Rights: Access to Justice for People with Disabilities in Guatemala

DOI
https://doi.org/10.18272/iu.i32.2907
Submitted
February 17, 2023
Published
2023-12-05 — Updated on 2023-12-05
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Abstract

This text analyzes the considerations, from the constitutionality block and conventionality control, on access to justice in Guatemala. At the same time, a critical balance is presented, more than a decade after the State of Guatemala ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, from a social, guaranteeing, and protective conception. In this sense, the main violations of access to justice for people with disabilities are evident, based on three scenarios: lack of optimal conditions, deficient public policies, and systemic-structural.

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