Country Monitoring
Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women (Convention of Belém do Pará)
Status of signatures and ratifications:
Dominican Republic
Signature: 06/09/94RA/ACC: 01/10/96
Deposit: 03/07/96 (RA)
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San Cristóbal y Nieves
Signature: 06/09/94
RA/ACC: 03/17/95
Deposit: 06/12/95 (RA)
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Signature: 03/05/96
RA/ACC: 05/23/96
Deposit: 05/31/96 (RA)
RA= RATIFICATION
ACC = ACCESSION
1 Bahamas Declaration: “Article 7(g) of the Convention imports no obligation upon the Government of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas to provide any form of compensation from public funds to any woman who has been subjected to violence in circumstances in which liability would not normally have been incurred under existing Bahamian law” (May 3, 1995)