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Creating Change: Examples of Modern Reform and Recommendations

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This final chapter will use case studies to highlight reform processes around the world that can be drawn on to learn how to better protect the right to legal capacity of women, disabled women, and gender minorities. It will discuss the abolition of guardianship in Peru in 2018; the reform of capacity to consent to sex laws in Ireland in 2017; and Malta’s 2015 Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics Act. To conclude, it will present reform recommendations. These recommendations include a four-part process for bringing law, policy and practice into compliance with the right to legal capacity on an equal basis for women, disabled women, and gender minorities.

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    Portions of this section are drawn from (Arstein-Kerslake 2015).

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Arstein-Kerslake, A. (2021). Creating Change: Examples of Modern Reform and Recommendations. In: Legal Capacity & Gender. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63493-3_6

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