Amnesty International asks Venezuela to enforce law on violence against women
Amnesty International (AI) presented a report on Wednesday related
to violence against women in Venezuela. AI calls for enforcing
a recent law that punishes men indicted for crimes related to
physical or verbal violence against women.
Guadalupe Marengo, the Deputy Secretary of AI’s International
Secretariat, said that violence against women is as serious
in Venezuela as it is in the rest of the world. The AI officer
also said that the answer to this problem is to enforce the
law passed last year in Venezuela, DPA reported.
“The law has already been adopted. Now, Venezuelan authorities
must enforce it,” Ms. Marengo said when presenting the report
in Caracas.
The Mexican specialist said that according to UN figures,
only one in three women suffering abuse from their partners
filed a complaint. According to the aforementioned law, all
complaints are processed and both local and regional authorities
are required to monitor the cases of violence against women.
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