The modern international strategies to limit violence against women

Abstract

Violence against women is a blatant violation of human rights in the era of international regulations and conventions that provide local and international guarantees, mainly the UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women DEVAW 1993.Besides, we find international commissions that monitor the implementation of women human rights, and that some regional conventions devoted articles to denounce violence against women, such as the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women 1994, which relies on the preventive and remedial aspects, and the Protocol of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa 2003. The study recommends the establishment of an international organization that denounces violence against women based on modern criteria with focus on prevention more than on sanction.