Discrimination occasioned for various motives, historically categorized as prohibited, has been analyzed by means of numerous instruments and resolutions of multiple international organisms. As an evolution of this analysis, in the last few years the concept of "intersectional discrimination" has been developed; this being understood as a particular form of discrimination that results from the intersectionality of diverse prohibited motives that result in a certain form of discrimination with specific characteristics. In the case of Gonzales Lluy and others vs. Ecuador, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights addressed the intersectionality of the discrimination suffered by the victim and analyzed it, taking its specific characteristics into consideration. This article analyzes the development of the concept of intersectionality; it then develops the application of intersectionality by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the case of Gonzales Lluy and others vs. Ecuador, and, finally, it offers conclusions relating to the importance of the development of the concept of intersectional discrimination.
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