some authors (Lagarde, 2013, Facio, 2011) suggest that in the 90s several years of feminist fighting against patriarchy were reflected in international human rights standards. Other scholars (Segato, 2017) argue that these rules would not have improved women’s lives, in particular as regards their r...

Access to safe housing means that women are able to leave a violent relationship, and the absence thereof, brings women into violence or leaves them on the streets. This article presents the analysis of 135 documents produced on four continents exploring housing solutions for women escaping domestic...

Judges should apply the gender perspective, in cases where violence against women becomes a transformative role, given that they play a transformative role in the face of formal, material and structural inequality at the time of hearing the proceedings. When judging, they are agents of change in the...

Despite the existence of public policies aimed at preventing violence against women in public space, such as street bullying, work-related or school/academic harassment, the invisibility of femicides committed in this context, known as non-intimate femicide, persists. Despite the legal provision, th...

This article summarises the tension between the rights of the child and of women who are victims of violence in the so-called special procedures for the protection of children at administrative level, investigated by means of a case study in Costa Rica between 2017 and the first quarter of 2018. The...

This work analysed the General Law on Migration in order to identify whether it is harmonised with the General Law on Women’s Access to a Life Free of Violence and consequently sets out differentiated actions for the protection and care of migrant girls and women who are victims of crimes in and dur...

This work brings an approximation of the challenges for advancing access to equality, non-discrimination and a life free of violence for women in rural areas. Lack of access to these rights and behaviour of discrimination and violence that violate them together with other implicit human rights preve...

femicide violence is a serious problem that demonstrates to the Mexican State due to its complexity and unquestionable need for immediate attention, through ad hoc mechanisms that show effective action to safeguard the human right to a life free from violence for women. From the legal and dogmaid pe...

This research article considers that there is a lack of protection under Ecuadorian law for the economic and wealth violence suffered by women, and therefore a reform of the Comprehensive Criminal Organic Code is proposed, seeking to equip human and gender rights in Ecuador. The starting research me...

This article analyses two judgments of constitutional courts in Latin America that apply the Belem do Pará Convention as part of the method of judging gender, and how this international treaty plays an essential role in effectively guaranteeing in the judicial sphere the human right of women to a li...

in this work we explore whether, following the enactment of the Law on Women’s Access to a Life Free of Violence in 2007, changes are being made to the search for the exit of violent marital relationships through increased use of authorities or separation between Mexican women. On the basis of data...

It is important to create this 25-year space for reflection following the adoption of the Statute of Autonomy of the two regions of the Atlantic coast of our country. This is basically underpinned by theoretical and practical international advancement of the individual and collective human rights of...

The CEDAW, the DEDAW and the Istanbul Convention establish a catalogue of obligations ranging from the protection of victims of gender-based violence to the content of public policies, laws and actions to prevent, detect, protect and punish acts of violence against women. This set of service obligat...