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Spain was an initial signatory on 11 May 2011 of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (CETS No. 210), known as the “Istanbul Convention”, which was ratified by Spain on 10 April 2014 and came into effect on 1 August 2014. The Istanbul Convention is a legally-binding ...
e. Gender violence and rape in Francoist Spain was a problem that was a result of Nationalist attitudes developed during the Spanish Civil War. Sexual violence was common on the part of Nationalist forces and their allies during the Civil War. Falangist rearguard troops would rape and murder women in cemeteries, hospitals, farmhouses, and prisons.
The Courts for Violence Against Women have the power to inquire on the following crimes: Homicide (manslaughter or murder), abortion, battery, harm to the fetus, crimes against freedom, crimes against moral integrity, sexual crimes or any other crime committed by the present or past spouse or significant other, independently or living together, as well as against minor and unable that are ...
Spain since 2003 has officially counted some killings of women as “crimes of gender violence” — but, until now, only when there was proof that the victim and the killer had been or were in a ...
t. e. Violence against women (VAW), also known as gender-based violence[ 1 ][ 2 ] and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), [ 3 ] is violent acts primarily committed by men or boys against women or girls. Such violence is often considered a form of hate crime, [ 4 ] committed against persons specifically because they are of the female gender ...
The term has been used to call attention to violence against women. [8] American author Carol Orlock is widely credited with initiating this usage of the term in her unpublished anthology on femicide. [7] Diana Russell publicized the term at the Crimes Against Women Tribunal in 1976 at the first International Tribunal on Crimes against Women in ...
The status of women in Spain has evolved from the country's earliest history, culture, and social norms. Throughout the late 20th century, Spain has undergone a transition from Francoist Spain (1939-1975), during which women's rights were severely restricted, to a democratic society where gender equality is a fundamental principle.
In September 2010, the Argentine justice reopened a probe into crimes committed during the Spanish Civil War and during Franco's reign. [88] Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, [89] the Council of Europe [90] and United Nations have asked the Spanish government to investigate the crimes of Franco's reign. [91]