When Legislation Isn't Enough: How Systemic Underfunding and State Sanctioned Impunity Allow High Rates of Violence Against Women and Feminicide to Continue in Brazil
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In the last few decades, feminist activists and women’s rights advocates have gained much ground in the effort to combat violence against women. Significant conventions for women’s rights have been widely adopted and ratified by their target states, such as the United Nation’s Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the Organization of American States’ Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence Against Women. Despite ratifying both conventions, it took the Brazilian government many years and a conviction by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to finally act on its commitments. In 2006, Brazil passed the Maria da Penha Law on Domestic and Family Violence, which typified the many forms this violence could take and created comprehensive mechanisms for its reduction and prevention. Then, in 2015, Brazil passed the Feminicide Law, which defined feminicide for the first time and recognized it as a heinous crime, consequently increasing sentences for perpetrators. Notwithstanding its adoption of such comprehensive and elaborate legislation, rates of violence against women, particularly domestic violence and feminicide, remain alarmingly high throughout Brazil. This work argues that the Brazilian State is complicit in the continued violation of women’s human rights in the country. Through its systemic underfunding and defunding of violence against women programs and organizations as well as the sanctioned culture of impunity that it creates through this underfunding, the State allows and perpetuates violence against women within Brazil.
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| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Date created | June 12, 2020 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Magallón-Gálvez, Jessica |
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Subjects
| Subject | violence against women |
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| Subject | feminicide |
| Subject | femicide |
| Subject | gender-based violence |
| Subject | CEDAW |
| Subject | Belém do Pará Convention |
| Subject | Maria da Penha |
| Subject | Brazil |
| Subject | impunity |
| Subject | underfunding |
| Subject | government |
| Subject | Stanford University |
| Subject | Center for Latin American Studies |
| Genre | Thesis |
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- Magallón-Gálvez, Jessica. (2020). When Legislation Isn't Enough: How Systemic Underfunding and State Sanctioned Impunity Allow High Rates of Violence Against Women and Feminicide to Continue in Brazil. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/yt353pt2287
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