04/10/2026
CERLAC Presents:
Critical Actors for Gender Justice: Promoting Gender Equality Machineries in the Global South.
The cases of Brazil and Chile.
Gender Equality Machineries (GEMs) are state-based mechanisms for advancing the rights, status, and condition of women in their full complexity, and for eliminating gender-based inequities. In this panel, we will focus on two GEMs from South America: Brazil’s SPM and Chile’s Ministry of Women and Gender Equality and SernamEG. The main goal is to contribute to a catalogue of lessons learned from GEMs in newer, consolidating democracies.
Monday, April 20, 2026
2:00pm – 4:00pm
Kaneff Tower 626
York University – Keele Campus
Speakers:
Simone Bohn, Associate Professor of Political Science, and CERLAC, York University
Paulina Muñoz Charalamby, FLACSO-Chile and CERLAC, York University
Bios:
Simone Bohn is an Associate Professor of Political Science at York University. She is the co-editor of Mothers in Public and Political Life (2017), 21st Century Feminismos: Women’s Movements in Latin America and the Caribbean (2021), Mulheres Quilombolas, Políticas Públicas e Intersectionalidades [Quilombola Women, Public Policy and Intersectionalities] (2021), and Women's rights in movement. Dynamics of feminist change in Latin America and the Caribbean (forthcoming). Her articles have been published in scholarly journals, such as Politics and Government, Latin American Research Review, International Political Science Review, Journal of Latin American Politics, and Comparative Governance and Politics.
Paulina Muñoz Charalamby is a sociologist and social researcher affiliated with FLACSO-Chile and currently a Visiting Researcher at CERLAC, York University. Her work focuses on gender, Indigenous peoples, migration, and public policy in Latin America and Canada. She has contributed to research in collaboration with UN Women through the ‘Originarias’ Center, supporting work with Indigenous women. She previously worked at Chile’s National Migration Service (SERMIG), where she contributed to the development of the National Migration Policy from a gender and human rights perspective. In parallel, she develops community-based projects in Toronto, facilitating autobiographical writing workshops for diverse groups, including women, refugees, and seniors, using storytelling as a tool for reflection and empowerment. Her current research examines the role of expert knowledge and think-tanks in Chile’s recent constitutional processes.
