The Legal consultant of Executive powerAntoliano Peralta Romero, deposited this Monday in the National Congress the project of LComprehensive Law on Violence against Women, which will establish the institutional responsibilities of the State for “prevent, attend to, prosecute, punish and repair violence” against women.
Along with the project, three other initiatives were delivered.
The one on violence against women has among its objectives “to adopt the necessary measures to prevent, punish and eradicate violence against women, as well as to establish the comprehensive protection system for victims of gender violence,” according to the official.
Sets the definition of feminicide and punishes him with sentences that may go from 30 to 40 yearspenalties that would be aggravated when the crime is committed against a girl or adolescent, as well as women with disabilities and over 65 years of age.
Other aggravating circumstances are when the perpetrator has violated existing protection orders against him, that the act has been preceded by sexual violence and if it occurred in the presence of children and adolescents.
It is also typified related femicide, which is the crime that implies sanctions for collateral victims who lose their lives in the context of a scenario of femicide violence, which are generally daughters, sons, mothers, close relatives or part of the circle of support of the direct victim.
Antoliano Peralta went to the Senate in the company of Mayra JimenezMinister for Women, and the Minister of Foreign Relations, Roberto Álvarez, where he handed over to the president of that chamber, Eduardo Estrella, the aforementioned project, as well as the one that reforms and updates the Law on Traffic and Human Trafficking.
Jiménez said that both the draft Comprehensive Violence Lawsuch as the one that modifies the traffic and human trafficking “These are historical debts of the Dominican State, which today President Abinader begins to settle with women, by sending the revision of both bills to the National Congress” and indicated that both pieces meet the highest international standards on violence against women.
human trafficking
In as much, that the project of modification to the Human Trafficking and Smuggling Law Its purpose is to deal comprehensively with the forced marriage or union, servile marriage or union, irregular adoption, forced labor, illicit organ trafficking, sexual exploitation, sexual slavery, among other existing modalities.
comprehensive repair
Both of them bills establish the right to comprehensive reparation for women, dependent children and survivors of violence and human trafficking. They are committed to a timely and comprehensive response for the victims, establishing the reparation system that includes a specialized program for women survivors of violence and trafficking, as well as girls and boys who have been orphaned due to femicides.
On the other hand, the draft Comprehensive Law on Violence against Women defines and punishes bullying in its different manifestations to overcome the current limitation that only penalizes harassment in its sexual manifestation, and implies sanctions for street sexual harassment as a new criminal type.
Similarly, it sanctions the online, patrimonial, economic, psychological and political violence, among other types of relevant importance.
The other two projects submitted yesterday by the Executive are on assets seized, kidnapped, abandoned, confiscated and in extinction of domain, and for the promotion and competitiveness of the National Civil Aviation.
These legislative initiatives were prepared by the Ministry for Women, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Attorney General’s Office, the Judiciary, and the National Police, among other institutions.
