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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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  • 2009
    Suriname

    Moral Law

    Moral law was revised in accordance with the international Conventions, including the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, including the Protocol regarding the prevention, elimination and punishment of trafficking in persons, in particular women and children.

  • 2009
    Suriname

    Law on Domestic Violence

    The Law on Domestic Violence was adopted on 2 June 2009 and defines Domestic Violence and the potential sentences.

  • 2006
    Suriname

    Article 307 of the Penal Code

    The former Article 307 has been revised in alignment with the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the associated Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children.  Currently, Article 307 of the Penal Code stipulates that the trade in women and in male juveniles must be punished with imprisonment of 5 years. Moreover, article 334 mentions imprisonment of at least 12 years for everyone who is involved in activities regarding the trade in human beings.