Women in Latin America: human rights and justice access
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This interview contains Alda Facio's views on the current problem of access to justice. It reflects her opinions and experiences on issues such as migration, femicide, State obligations, obstacles to implementation, and prospects for women's rights on the continent. The conversation took place by telephone in July 2018. All discrimination that occurs in the private sphere becomes a matter for the State, and the State must have public policies in place to deal with these issues. Almost all states have laws on feminicide or femicide, but they are not enforced or implemented properly because there are no policies, no resources, and no training for judges to understand the laws or for the police and other public institutions to act in accordance with the legislation. There are policies that exist only on paper but are not enforced because neither the heads of institutions nor the people responsible for enforcing them do much. Nor is there any monitoring to evaluate and identify problems that can be solved.
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Copyright (c) 2019 María Cruz Tornay, Javier Dávalos González
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