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Leis de violência

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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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  • 2019
    Antígua e Barbuda

    Trafficking in persons (prevention) (amendment) act, 2019

    An act to amend the Trafficking in Persons (Prevention) Act, 2010 to establish the Trafficking in Persons Prevention Unit and for connected matters.

  • 2018
    Antígua e Barbuda

    Trafficking in Persons (Prevention) (Amendment) Act

    Strengthens the Trafficking in Persons Prevention (Amendment) Act from 2015 with provisions for the prevention of human trafficking and allows for protection of its victims.

  • 2017
    Antígua e Barbuda

    The Evidence (Special Provisions) (Amendment) Act

    This act allows vulnerable witnesses of crimes such as sexual assault and abuse to give evidence without having to face the perpetrator in court in order to reduce their potential re-victimization.

  • 2016
    Antígua e Barbuda

    Domestic Violence Act, No. 27 of 2015

    The present act  provides greater protection for victims of domestic violence and makes provision for the granting of protection orders and for matters incidental thereto and connected therewith.

  • 2015
    Antígua e Barbuda

    Migrant Smuggling (Prevention) (Amendment) Act

    This Act strengthens the Migrant Smuggling Prevention Act 2010 and provides for increased penalties under the legislation.

  • 2015
    Antígua e Barbuda

    Trafficking in Persons (Prevention) (Amendment) Act

    The present act amends the Trafficking in Persons (Prevention) Act, No. 12 of 2010 and for incidental and connected purposes.

  • 2010
    Antígua e Barbuda

    Migrant Smuggling (Prevention) Act

    This Act aims to combat migrant smuggling; to provide for migrant smuggling and other offences associated with migrant smuggling and for incidental and connected purposes

  • 2010
    Antígua e Barbuda

    Act 12 - The Trafficking in Persons (Prevention) Act

    The aims of this Act include: combating the trafficking in persons within and across the borders of Antigua and Barbuda; the definition of the crime of people trafficking and related matters; and the taking of measures to protect and support victims. The Act considers an aggravating circumstance actions taken against especially vulnerable populations such as pregnant women, among others. It establishes that past sexual behaviour is irrelevant and inadmissable to be used against the victim in court.

  • 1999
    Antígua e Barbuda

    Domestic Violence (Summary 1 Proceeding) Act

    An Act which defines what is domestic violence and the potential sentences for these crimes.

  • 1995
    Antígua e Barbuda

    The Sexual Offences Act

    An Act to repeal and replace the laws of Antigua and Barbuda relating to sexual crimes, to the procuration, abduction and prostitution of persons and to kindred offences.