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Violence laws

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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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  • 2010
    Saint Lucia

    The Counter-Trafficking Act

    The object of this Act is to prescribe measures to prevent and combat trafficking in persons with particular regard to victims who are women and children, by
    (a) protecting and assisting victims of trafficking, having due regard to their human rights;
    (b) facilitating the efficient investigation of cases of trafficking in persons;
    (c) facilitating the just and effective punishment of individuals and organizations involved in trafficking in persons;
    (d) promoting cooperation between Saint Lucia and other States in order to prevent and suppress trafficking in persons and to punish offenders.

  • 2006
    Saint Lucia

    Labour Code

    States that any act of sexual harassment against an employee committed by an employer, managerial employee or co-employee shall constitute unlawful discrimination based on sex within the meaning of section 267 and the employee shall be entitled to compensation in accordance with this Code.

  • 2004
    Saint Lucia

    Act 9

    Amends and updates the Criminal Code. It contains a number of provisions that address violence against women, including the introduction of "marital rape" as an offence, as well as provisions that address stalking and workplace sexual harassment.

  • 2003
    Saint Lucia

    Criminal Code Sub-Part C — Sexual Offences

    The Criminal Code describes the circonstances in which a husband can be guilty of the offence of rape, and the possible sentences.

  • 2000
    Saint Lucia

    Equality of opportunity and treatment in employment and occupation Act

    The Article 8 of this Act defines Sexual harassment and its possible sentences.

  • 1995
    Saint Lucia

    Domestic Violence Act (Summary Proceedings)

    This Act defines Domestic Violence and the potential sentences of these crimes.