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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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  • 1986
    Trinidad e Tobago

    Sexual Offences Act Last amend 2000

    An Act to repeal and replace the laws of Trinidad and Tobago related to sexual crimes, to the procuration, abduction and prostitution of persons and to kindred offences.

  • 1984
    Costa Rica

    Ley 6.968 Aprobación de la Convención para la eliminación de todas las formas de discriminación contra la mujer

    Aprueba la Convención sobre la eliminación de todas las formas de discriminación contra la mujer, adoptada por la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York, Estados Unidos.

  • 1980
    Argentina

    Ley 23.179 Aprobación de la Convención sobre la eliminación de todas las formas de discriminación contra la mujer

    Aprueba la Convención sobre la Eliminación de Todas las Formas de Discriminación contra la Mujer, aprobada por Resolución 34/180 de la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas del 18 de diciembre de 1979, y suscripta por la República Argentina el 17 de julio de 1980, cuyo texto forma parte de la presente Ley.

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