General Recommendation of the Committe of Experts of the MESECVI (No.1): Self-Defence and Gender-Based Violence
General Recommendation of the Committe of Experts of the MESECVI (No.1): Self-Defence and Gender-Based Violence
Overview
The Committee of Experts of the MESECVI has called attention to the case of many women who have ended the lives or caused an injury to their aggressors as victims of illegitimate aggressions in the sphere of their interpersonal relationships, including the domestic sphere and those defensive acts against aggressions of gender-based violence.
In this General Recommendation, the Committee analyzes the international obligations of States Party to the Convention to ensure women’s access to the argument of self-defense in those cases in which, as a response to the situation of violence experienced, they have engaged in such conduct.