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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 46
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- Civil society organizations considered that the details of States’ “respect, protect, fulfil” obligations should be openly spelled out, including with clear parameters for showing when there was a violation of human rights. There was also a need for specific language to highlight the responsibility of States for the actions of non-State actors.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Reparations to women who have been subjected to violence 2010, para. 58
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- Symbolic reparation measures are designed as measures offering satisfaction that, by giving victims due recognition, can also facilitate a process of moral and social rehabilitation on an individual and collective level. Official apologies, commemorative events, renaming of streets and public facilities, establishing remembrance days, building monuments, museums and memorials may all help victims feel duly recognized.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Reparations to women who have been subjected to violence 2010, para. 30
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- As traditionally conceived, the remedy of reparation for the violation of a certain right required investigating certain facts to determine whether the violation had taken place; determining the harm ensuing from the violation; identifying responsibility for the violation; and determining measures of redress aimed at returning the victims to where they were before the violation took place.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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State responsibility for eliminating violence against women 2013, para. 13
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- The due diligence standard serves as a tool for rights holders to hold States accountable, by providing an assessment framework for ascertaining what constitutes effective fulfilment of a State's obligations, and for analysing its actions or omissions. An assessment framework is especially important where the potential infringement comes through a State's failure to act, as it can be difficult for rights bearers to assess if an omission constituted a violation of their right, in the absence of a normative basis for the appraisal.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and violence against women 2011, para. 61
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- There is growing consensus that human rights are interdependent and indivisible and that it is necessary to embrace an indivisible rights framework to address interdependent and interlocking oppressions and discriminations. In addition, social, economic, and cultural life must be seen as the condition precedent to the meaningful exercise of civil and political life. This is possible through recognizing the connection between civil, political, economic, cultural and social rights, and also through challenging the hierarchy, which privileges civil and political rights.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Violence against women as a barrier to the effective realization of all human rights 2014, para. 13
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- Individuals cannot influence the decision-making processes affecting their lives, livelihoods and the life of their community without their human rights being respected, protected and fulfilled. Having a voice and stake in community action, requires active political participation and civic engagement in various areas of social, political, civil, and economic aspects of community life. Thus citizenship rights that embrace multiple sites of political participation and civic engagement, establish a relationship between individuals and the State and also among individual citizens. This implies not only rights and responsibilities, but also interaction and influence within the community. States, in turn, have an affirmative obligation to promote and protect all human rights, in order to enable the effective exercise of citizenship rights.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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State responsibility for eliminating violence against women 2013, para. 38
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- The obligation to ensure civil law remedies is set out in article 29, paragraph 2 of the Council of Europe Convention. This provision allows victims to seek justice and compensation against State authorities, if they have failed in their duty to diligently take preventive and protective measures. Failure to comply with this obligation can result in legal responsibility and civil law remedies, including damages for negligent and gross negligent behaviour. The extent of State authorities' civil liability remains governed by the internal law of the parties and they have the discretion to decide what kind of negligent behaviour is actionable.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Reparations to women who have been subjected to violence 2010, para. 18
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- The quantitative and qualitative differences between individual and gross and systematic violations might affect the scope and nature of remedies that can and should be afforded. For one thing, the idea of full reparation is virtually impossible in contexts of gross and systematic violations characterized by large numbers of victims and perpetrators, weak Governments, fragile economies, scarce governmental resources and huge reconstruction and development challenges. In such contexts, remedies may have to be adjusted to achieve goals other than that of compensating each individual victim in proportion to harm, including prioritizing the recognition of victims and promoting interpersonal trust and trust in the institutions of the new State order.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Reparations to women who have been subjected to violence 2010, para. 12
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- The notion of a right to reparation is located within the framework of the law of remedies and includes two aspects: procedural and substantive. Procedurally, remedies are the processes by which arguable claims of wrongdoing are heard and decided by competent bodies, whether judicial or administrative. Substantively, remedies consist of the outcomes of the proceedings and, more broadly, the measures of redress granted to victims. The law of remedies can serve both individual and societal goals, the underlying purposes of which include corrective justice, deterrence, retribution and restorative justice. It is the element of corrective justice focusing on fairness to the victim and redress measures aimed at "repairing" the wrongdoing that victims experience which will be the focus of this report.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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