Legislative reform and the struggle to eradicate violence against women in the Dominican Republic.

INTRODUCTION

In 1997 the National Congres of the Dominican Republic approved Law 24-97 Against Domestic Violence in a bid to alter the state's reply to violence against women. (1) Law 24-97 introduced important changes to the country's Criminal digest criminalizing violent and discriminatory management in an effort to guarantee women equal protection and equal benefit of the law. (2) The ne for state action was pertinacious A letter submitted to the Senate in 1996 in support of the draft bill that would later become Law 24-97 noted that assassination was the sixth most public cause of ...