State responsibility for eliminating violence against women 2013, para. 15
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- The Inter-American Court of Human Rights was the first human rights body to hold that the American Convention on Human Rights requires States to exercise due diligence to prevent attacks on a person's life, physical integrity or liberty on its territory and punish perpetrators and to restore the right violated and provide compensation for damages resulting from the violation. This was premised on the State obligation to ensure the applicant's human rights. The duty to prevent entails the use of all means of a legal, political, administrative and cultural nature to promote the protection of human rights and ensure that violations are considered and treated as illegal acts, leading to the punishment of responsible parties and the indemnification of victims. For due diligence to be satisfied, the formal framework established by the State must also be effective in practice.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2013
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 15
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