{"id":24,"date":"2023-08-13T16:42:44","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T20:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/capacitydecisionmaking\/?post_type=chapter&p=24"},"modified":"2023-09-15T17:20:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T21:20:39","slug":"chapter-2-andrea-parra","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/capacitydecisionmaking\/chapter\/chapter-2-andrea-parra\/","title":{"raw":"Chapter 1: Andrea Parra - Colombia","rendered":"Chapter 1: Andrea Parra – Colombia"},"content":{"raw":"
Speaker Bio<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\r\n\"A\r\n\r\nAndrea Parra (she\/her)<\/span> is a Colombian feminist attorney, legal activist, experiential trainer and translator. She is an independent consultant with various human rights organizations and grassroots groups. She is the co-coordinator of the Latin American Network on Article 12, which focuses on the protection of the right to legal capacity of people with disabilities, the director of <\/span>Talleristas por la Justicia,\u00a0 and the co-director of ALCE, a project to abolish all forms of confinement and punishment, particularly psychiatric violence. Since 2014, she has been a core trainer with\u00a0<\/span>Training for Change, a training and capacity-building organization for activists and organizers. Until 2018, she was the Global Advocacy Director for <\/span>CREA, a feminist human rights organization based in India. She has also worked at the Washington College of Law of American University as the Practitioner-in-Residence for the\u00a0<\/span>Immigrant Justice Clinic. Prior to that, she was the director of the Action Program for Equality and Social Inclusion (PAIIS), a human rights law clinic at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia focusing on advocating against discrimination based on disability, gender identity and sexual orientation. She was a professor at the School of Law of the Universidad de los Andes in Bogot\u00e1 for seven years and was awarded the Innovative Teaching Award in 2015.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n
<\/span>Background\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\r\n
Current State of Article 12 in Colombia<\/span><\/h6>\r\nSince Colombia ratified the CRPD in 2011, there have been extensive legislative changes. These changes include the passing of a statutory framework in 2013, a review before the CRPD in 2016, and the passing of law 1996<\/em> in 2019 which fully eliminated guardianship from the Colombian system and mandated the implementation of supported decision making. The passing of law 1996<\/em> led to an enormous amount of pushback and subsequently nine constitutional challenges against the law (Parra, 2023). However, in all the decisions the Constitutional Court issued, the law was deemed as constitutional (Parra, 2023). By eliminating guardianships, disabled people can now create a support agreement before any notary, judge, or mediation center without cost. To ensure a successful transition, these changes required regulation, and as such the Supreme Court of Colombia has issued over 20 decisions about the proper implementation of the law (Parra, 2023). While there has been lots of pushback from families, from civil law attorneys, from judges and from notaries there are also many people who continue to support it both in Colombia and across Latin America.\r\n
Current State of Activism in Colombia\u00a0<\/span><\/h6>\r\nAdvocacy around Article 12 continues in Colombia and within broader Latin America. Organizations such as Asdown Colombia<\/a>, Nodo Comunitario de Salud Mental y Discapacidad Psicosocial<\/a>, Liga Colombiana de Autismo<\/a>, and University Los Andes\u2019 Action Program for Equality and Social Inclusion<\/a> continue to advocate for the development of robust supports to fully implement supported decision making and the eradication of all forms of sterilization for disabled peoples.\r\n
Video Presentation<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\r\n[h5p id=\"2\"]\r\n\r\nClick here to read the Transforming the Disabling\/Maddening State - Andrea Parra video transcript.<\/a>\r\n\r\nAndrea provides a link in the chat for attendees to read more about her work with A.L.C.E, an anti-punitive, queer collective. \u00a0Click here for more information about A.L.C.E.\u00a0<\/a>\r\n
Key Points<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\r\n