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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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  • 2017
    Barbados

    Employment Sexual Harassment (Prevention) Act

    This Act makes provision for the protection of employees from sexual harassment in the workplace.

  • 2016
    Barbados

    Trafficking in Persons Prevention Act

    This Bill would give effect to the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, Supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime and for matters connected therewith.

  • 2016
    Barbados

    Domestic Violence (Protection Orders) (Amendment) Act

    This Act amends the Domestic Violence (Protection Orders) Act, Cap. 130A to define domestic violence and to make greater provision for the safety of victims of domestic violence and the accountability of perpetrators of domestic violence.

  • 2016
    Barbados

    Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act

    The present Act amends the Sexual Offences Act, Cap. 154, to provide for the circumstances under which the offence of rape is committed by a husband against his wife.

  • 2011
    Barbados

    Transnational Crime Bill (pt.III)

    Legal framework for criminalizing the offences of human trafficking and smuggling.

  • 1993
    Barbados

    Domestic Violence (Protection orders)

    An Act to provide for the granting of protection orders in circumstances surrounding domestic violence and for related matters.

  • 1992
    Barbados

    Sexual Offences Act, Chap 154

    An Act to revise and reform the law relating to sexual crimes.
    (Rape) Any person who has sexual intercourse with another person without the consent of the other person and who knows that the other person does not consent to the intercourse or is reckless as to whether the other person consents to the intercourse is guilty of the offence of rape and is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for life.