Women against violence
Subtitle: breaking the silence
By: edited by Ana Maria Brasileiro.
Contributors: Brasileiro, Ana Maria.; United Nations Development Fund for Women.
Series: Reflecting on experience in Latin America and the Caribbean; Reflecting on experience
Publisher: United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 116
Subjects: Women -- Crimes against -- Latin America -- Prevention; Women -- Crimes against -- Caribbean Area -- Prevention; Women -- Crimes against -- Latin America; Women -- Crimes against -- Caribbean Area; Women -- Latin America -- Social conditions; Women -- Caribbean Area -- Social conditions; Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Latin America; Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Caribbean Area
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Virginia Vargas; title: Introduction: Violence against women / Roxana Carrillo; title: Violence against women: a regional crisis / Marcela Ortiz; title: Women's human rights and Latin American criminal law / Gladys Acosta Vargas; title: Combatting violence against women in the Caribbean / Roberta Clarke; title: Unequal status, unequal development: gender violence in Mexico / Patricia Duarte Sanchez and Gerardo Gonzales; title: The power axis: a hierarchy of violence in Brazil / Heleith I. B. Saffioti; title: Beyond the conventions: violence prevention in the Andean region / Alexandra Ayala Marin; title: Taking action against violence: a case study in Trinidad and Tobago / Cecilia Babb.