On 21 and 22 October 2020, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), together with the American University Washington College of Law, through its War Crimes Research Office and its Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, and Leiden University, through its Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, organized an online workshop on strategic litigation for gender-based violence in Latin America.

The workshop was attended by around 40 individuals with expertise in the strategic litigation of gender-based violence cases in different Latin American countries, including lawyers, civil society representatives, public prosecutors, judges, and representatives of government agencies and transitional justice commissions. One of the sessions was also attended by diplomatic representatives, United Nations officials, and public and private donors. The live sessions on 21 and 22 October 2020 were preceded by participant interviews aimed at analysing certain litigation processes in greater detail.

This report summarizes the main points of discussion, and draws on the experiences, challenges, and good practices shared by the legal practitioners in attendance. As such, this report is not intended to reflect an exhaustive analysis of the issues discussed.