"Your destiny is to stay with him" : state response to domestic violence in Algeria.
2017
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Title
"Your destiny is to stay with him" : state response to domestic violence in Algeria.
Published
New York, NY : Human Rights Watch, 2017.
Copyright
©2017
Call Number
HV6626.23.A44 Y68 2017
Spine Title
Algeria, "your destiny is to stay with him"
ISBN
9781623134631 paperback
1623134633
1623134633
Description
65 pages ; 27 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)992507519
Summary
Key recommendations -- Methodology -- I. Background -- II. Social barriers to accessing help -- III. Lack of shelter and services for domestic violence survivors -- IV. Police response to domestic violence -- V. Judicial response to domestic violence -- VI. Algeria's legal framework compared to international legal obligations -- Recommendations -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix I. Letter to the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs -- Appendix II. Letter to the Algerian Prime Minister.
"In December 2015, Algeria's parliament amended the penal code to criminalize some forms of domestic violence. However, authorities are failing to prevent violence, provide adequate protection and services to survivors of domestic violence, and prosecute their abusers. Based on over 40 interviews, including 20 survivors of domestic violence, [this report] documents how survivors face an uphill struggle to escape their plight, due to a lack of police response, economic dependence on their abusers, family pressure to reconcile, and a shortage of adequate shelter or assistance for them. Survivors described how their husbands or partners broke their teeth or limbs, caused concussions and skull fractures, and beat them while pregnant. They also described how their husbands threatened to kill them, stopped them from working, and prevented them from visiting friends or family. While the amendments to the penal code are an important step forward, comprehensive legislation is still needed to prevent such violence by changing attitudes through education programs, protect victims and, ensure that acts of violence are effectively investigated and punished."--Back cover.
"In December 2015, Algeria's parliament amended the penal code to criminalize some forms of domestic violence. However, authorities are failing to prevent violence, provide adequate protection and services to survivors of domestic violence, and prosecute their abusers. Based on over 40 interviews, including 20 survivors of domestic violence, [this report] documents how survivors face an uphill struggle to escape their plight, due to a lack of police response, economic dependence on their abusers, family pressure to reconcile, and a shortage of adequate shelter or assistance for them. Survivors described how their husbands or partners broke their teeth or limbs, caused concussions and skull fractures, and beat them while pregnant. They also described how their husbands threatened to kill them, stopped them from working, and prevented them from visiting friends or family. While the amendments to the penal code are an important step forward, comprehensive legislation is still needed to prevent such violence by changing attitudes through education programs, protect victims and, ensure that acts of violence are effectively investigated and punished."--Back cover.
Note
"This report was researched and written by a researcher from Human Rights Watch. Eric Goldstein, deputy director in the Middle East and North Africa division, and Rothna Begum, researcher in the Women rights division, edited the report."--Page 59.
"April 2017"--Contents page, spine.
"April 2017"--Contents page, spine.
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