El Salvador – Violence Against Women – Women’s Tribunals +
Author: Womens UN Report Network
Date: February 12, 2006
Changing the Legacy of Violence in El Salvador
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Despite a hostile post-conflict environment,
women are demanding changes and defending their rights. El Salvador’s sustained climate of violence is taking its
toll on the nation’s women. The majority of violent crime victims are women. A thousand women have been murdered between 1999 and 2005, according to a survey by a coalition of organizations fighting violence against women and funded by Oxfam America. Only 20 percent of the cases were brought to court, the survey shows. In the first four months of 2004 there were 1,054 cases of domestic El Salvador’s high violent crime rate is the legacy of a 12-year civil El Salvador’s strong patriarchal social order and civil war legacy Violence and poverty oppress women El Salvador continues to endure a painful process of post-conflict But it has proven more difficult to confront the constant level of There were over 2,105 cases of violent crime against women reported in Official attitudes toward such violence are evolving slowly–it was not The current economic situation doesn’t help either. The nation’s Overcoming violence against women With women representing such a large sector of the poorest part of Oxfam America is funding a coalition of organizations seeking to reform One of these groups, the Association of Salvadoran Women (AMS), “I’ve always been convinced that it’s necessary to give a voice to AMS is helping women establish “tribunals,” a forum for women to Shifting attitudes away from violence In another case, a tribunal approached the police with information The women’s tribunal in this area was so successful that it helped “We’re really trying to make a huge shift of mentalities in our ________________________________________________________________________________________________
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