Mexico’s Federal Electoral Court: Adjudicating Conflicts between Indigenous Women’s Individual Political Rights and Community-Based Traditional Self-Rule

• In Event: Human Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean

Brief Overview

I examine how Mexico’s Federal Electoral Court resolves conflicts between individual rights (Art 1 of the Mexican constitution) and collective rights (Art 2). I argue that the FEC has failed to protect the political rights of indigenous women.

Author

• Jodi Finkel, Loyola Marymount University