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Date: April 29, 2024 Mon
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Results for sexual violence (central america)
1 results foundAuthor: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Title: Access to Justice for Women Victims of Sexual Violence in Mesoamerica Summary: The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter "the Commission" or "the IACHR") presents this thematic report in which it examines the dimensions of the problem of sexual violence in Mesoamerica. It examines the regulatory and jurisdictional dimensions of this issue, as well as the obstacles that women victims encounter in endeavoring to obtain an adequate access to justice, with particular emphasis on El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. In this sense, the report focuses on the areas of prevention, investigation, prosecution, and the punishment of sexual violence cases, as well as the judicial protection system's treatment of victims and their next of kin. In this report and elsewhere, the Commission has expressed its concern over the serious de jure and de facto obstacles that women victims of sexual violence encounter in endeavoring to get access to adequate and effective justice. These challenges are impediments to the full enjoyment and guarantee of women's human rights, which are protected under inter-American and international human rights instruments; they also represent a failure on the part of the States to honor their obligation to act with the due diligence required to prevent, investigate, prosecute, punish and redress acts of violence committed against women. Details: Washington, DC: Organization of American States, 2011. 125p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed June 29, 2012 at: http://www.oas.org/en/iachr/women/docs/pdf/WOMEN%20MESOAMERICA%20ENG.pdf Year: 2011 Country: Central America URL: http://www.oas.org/en/iachr/women/docs/pdf/WOMEN%20MESOAMERICA%20ENG.pdf Shelf Number: 125431 Keywords: Abused WomenSexual Abuse VictimsSexual Violence (Central America)Violence Against Women |