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    • The story of WLD
    • About Women, Law and Development
    • About the Website
    • About the Author
  • Beginnings
    • First Initiatives
    • Central America Legal Services
    • Nairobi Forum
  • Organizing
    • Early regional linkages
    • Asia
    • Latin America
    • Africa
    • Interregional connections
    • WLD International
  • Research
    • Clarifying issues and strategies
    • Participatory Research Project
      • Intro Freedom from V
      • Intro Legal Literacy
    • Step by Step
      • Step by Step Acknowledgements
  • Advocacy
    • Agenda setting with NGOs and UN bodies
    • Claiming Our Place
    • Support of the Special Rapporteur
    • Basic Needs Basic Rights
  • Capacity Building
    • Capacity Building
    • Human Rights Training
      • Central and Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union
      • Nigeria Human Rights Training
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WLD HISTORY

State Responses to Domestic Violence:
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Current Status and Needed Improvements

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Margaret Schuler, Gladys Acosta Vargas, Michelle Beasley, Sheila Gymiah, Sakuntala Rajasingham, Rebecca Sewall, Arati Vasan

Women Law and Development International
​1996
  • ASIN: B000M08Z0K
​152 pages
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State Responses to Domestic Violence: Current Status and Needed Improvements addresses three major questions: what laws exist to address domestic violence?; have they been effective in eradicating domestic violence?; and what can be done to improve the legal treatment of domestic violence? Using a dual research strategy involving a review of laws and a survey of women’s rights advocates, this study provides a global overview of current legal responses to domestic violence. State Responses also offers comprehensive recommendations for states and suggests strategies for NGOs to advocate for change.

Voices of Women Worldwide
  • “Existing legislation remains insufficient, inefficacious, [and] neutral. [It] does not contemplate the aspect of inequality between boys and girls... [and does not] contemplate the causes of domestic violence.” -Argentina
  • “One of the biggest obstacles [to ending domestic violence] is the belief that family matters are private even when people are being hurt.” -Canada
  • I was battered by ex-husband many times seriously to the point of losing six teeth. Every time I took him to the police station, the next day he was out a free man.” 
  • -Tanzania
  • “However violent the marriage, most religions teach that one must endure, not get out.”
  • -Uganda
  • “In large measures, those called upon to respond to domesi$t»‘ violence are males who all too often hold beliefs similar to those of the perpetrators of domestic violence .”
  • -United States of America
  • I am not afraid of war. I have been living in a war zone for 20 years.” Yugoslavia

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Domestic violence
Women, Law & Development 
Its history and contributions to the global women's rights movement. 
by Margaret Schuler 

Women, Law and Development

In these pages, Margaret Schuler, the initiator and director of WLD for many years, shares the story of its development and the contributions it has made to the international movement.