State-Sponsored Violence Against Women
Against The Current vol. 121

http://www.solidarity-us.org//node/159
Date Written:  2006-03-01
Publisher:  Against The Current
Year Published:  2006
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX13229

The words of Latin American women continue to have no value to those who legislate, govern and administer justice. The permissiveness and omissions of state laws, institutions and functionaries in response to the violation of women’s rights are part of gender violence. The advances have been minimal and the need to dismantle this theater of illusions is urgent.

Subject Headings

• Discrimination
• Family Violence
• Latin America
• Latin American Human Rights
• Mexico
• Violence
• Violence against Women & Children
• Women
• Women/Developing Countries
• Women & the Law
• Women/Leadership
• Women & Men/Setting Limits & Enforcing Consequences
• Women's Issues
• Women's Movement
• Women's Rights