Closing the gap in international human rights law: lessons from three regional human rights systems on legal standards and practices regarding violence against women 2015, para. 53
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The Commission applied the Convention of Belém do Pará for the first time in the seminal case of da Penha Maia Fernandes v. Brazil; it held that the State had failed to act with the due diligence required to prevent, punish, and eradicate domestic violence, and found the State responsible for a violation in respect of not having convicted or punished the perpetrator over a period of 17 years.
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Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences