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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 ...
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 ...
The La Manada rape case, also known as the wolf pack case, [1][2] began with the gang rape of an 18-year-old woman on 7 July 2016 during the San Fermín celebrations in Pamplona, Navarre, Spain. The case drew intense public scrutiny as it called into question the definition of rape under Spanish law. Five men, including a member of the Civil ...
For years, many killings of women in Spain have been loosely described as “crimes of passion” or “love crimes,” but the adoption of gender-violence laws in the early 2000s helped educate ...
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In the early hours of 22 August 2016, an 18-year-old woman named Diana Quer went missing in the small town of A Pobra do Caramiñal in Galicia. The case went unsolved for over a year and received significant national media attention. In December 2017, a 41-year-old man named José Abuín, aka "El Chicle", confessed to the murder of Quer while ...
Mural against violence against women in Pego (Valencian Community, Spain) Violence against women was common and ignored during the Franco era. Before 1963, husbands and fathers who killed their wives and daughters whom they discovered committing adultery or premarital sex incurred only the symbolic punishment of destierro. [21]
[2] [1] Pedro Sánchez, the prime minister of Spain, apologised for the loophole and called it his government's "biggest mistake". [2] [3] The United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women and girls stated that the negative effects of the initial legislation could have been avoided with more consultation. [4]