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• Title: Legislative Reform and the Struggle to Eradicate Violence Against Women in the Dominican Republic.
• Author : Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
• Release Date : January 01, 2005
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 404 KB

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INTRODUCTION In 1997, the National Congress of the Dominican Republic approved Law 24-97 Against Domestic Violence in a bid to alter the state's response to violence against women. (1) Law 24-97 introduced important changes to the country's Criminal Code, criminalizing violent and discriminatory conduct in an effort to guarantee women equal protection and equal benefit of the law. (2) The need for state action was urgent. A letter submitted to the Senate in 1996 in support of the draft bill that would later become Law 24-97 noted that murder was the sixth most common cause of death among Dominican women between the ages of fifteen and forty-five, that one in six Dominican homes experienced some type of violence, and that eighty percent of women who sought health care did so as a result of domestic violence. (3)

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