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Violence within couples : legal treatment : review of progress and results

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: UN SantiagoCL 1998Description: 46 pAction note:
  • 3/7/00 M2LMGR
Summary: Examines the issue of violence within couples, as one of the forms that violence against women takes. Approaches the subject from a legal standpoint, consideration being given on one hand to the international and regional legal framework, and on the other hand to the emergence since 1989 of a number of special laws on family and domestic violence that aim to support the victim and punish the aggressor.
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Examines the issue of violence within couples, as one of the forms that violence against women takes. Approaches the subject from a legal standpoint, consideration being given on one hand to the international and regional legal framework, and on the other hand to the emergence since 1989 of a number of special laws on family and domestic violence that aim to support the victim and punish the aggressor.

3/7/00 M2LMGR

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