Third Hemispheric Report on the Implementation of the Belém do Pará Convention
Third Hemispheric Report on the Implementation of the Belém do Pará Convention
Overview
This report presents the progress of 24 countries in the region in the effective compliance with the obligations assumed upon ratification of the Convention of Belém do Pará. With the inputs provided by the States, as well as by 26 civil society organizations that submitted 24 national and 2 regional shadow reports, the Committee of Experts and the Technical Secretariat conducted an in-depth study of each response in light of the standards established in the Convention in relation to the following thematic axes: Legislation, National Plans, Access to Justice, National Budgets and Information and Statistics, offering recommendations to the States to strengthen their implementation from a perspective of the obligations of prevention contained in the Convention.