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The Gender Equality Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean's repository of violence laws currently contains more than 380 legal instruments, classified by country, from 38 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as relevant legislation from Spain and Portugal.

Its content ranges from laws on domestic or intra-family violence, known as first-generation laws; the most recent regulations on integral protection against gender-based violence against women with their recent modifications and reforms-, which currently exist in 13 Latin American countries; the laws that criminalize the crime of femicide in 17 Latin American countries; In addition to regulations on sexual offenses; on harassment in the workplace; specific laws on street harassment and on the dissemination of intimate images by electronic media; also the law against harassment and political violence against women in the Plurinational State of Bolivia, and the law that punishes harassment against women in political life in Peru, the only specific laws in the region.

Also included are laws that criminalize and punish human trafficking and smuggling, regulatory norms of laws on violence against women; those that determine the creation of specialized bodies in different areas of the State; those that establish specific procedural norms for issues of violence on criminal procedure abbreviations, specialized courts, and the inadmissibility of alternative sentences; those that define the implementation of registration systems for cases of violence and those that refer to protection measures for victims, among others.

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  • 2012
    Grenada

    Criminal Code Amendment Act

    This Act reforms and replaces sections of the Criminal Code from 2010. Amends several sections regarding sexual offences.

  • 2012
    Grenada

    Education Amendment Act

    This Act adresses sexual violence in schools and education institutions. 

  • 2012
    Grenada

    Chapter 72A, of the 2012 Continuous Revised Edition of the Laws of Grenada

    Equality of the application of provisions for sexual offences against girls and boys, spousal rape and trafficking in persons and prostitution (art. 188-190).

  • 2010
    Grenada

    Act 19 - Domestic Violence Act 2010

    An act to provide greater protection for victims of domestic violence, and to make provision for the granting of protection orders, and for matters incidental thereto and connected therewith.