Chairs:

• Elena Alvites Alvites – ealvites@pucp.edu.pe
• Mônia Hennig – moniah@unisc.br
• Jorge León Vásquez – jorge.leon@pucp.edu.pe
• Julia Romero Herrera – jromeroh@pucp.edu.pe

SPEAKERS

Chiara	Cerbone
Mariana	Brocca
Maria Carolina	Zalazar

Latin America continues to be the most unequal region on the planet, and this reality is reflected in the limited access to and fulfillment of services directly linked to fundamental social rights—such as the right to health, the right to education, the right to food, and even the “new right” to care. These rights are especially important for reducing structural inequality and protecting groups in situations of vulnerability.

This situation of inequality persists despite the fact that most Latin American constitutions define the State as a social and democratic state governed by the rule of law, and have expressly recognized social rights as fundamental rights. It is undeniable that such normative recognition has enabled various constitutional courts and tribunals to fulfill their protective role in concrete cases concerning these rights. Through their rulings—including structural and dialogic decisions—they have strengthened Latin American social constitutionalism, whose first milestone was the 1917 Constitution of Querétaro and which today is framed as an inclusive and transformative constitutionalism.