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Summaries of Jurisprudence / Gender-based Violence. Summaries of Jurisprudence / Gender-based Violence. Summaries of Jurisprudence / Gender- based Violence. SUMMARIES OF JURISPRUDENCE Gender-based Violence 2nd Edition Updated Centro por la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional Center for Justice and International Law Centro pela Justiça e o Direito Internacional Pemonton Kowantok Wacüpe Yuwanin Pataset Summaries of Jurisprudence / Gender-based Violence. 2nd Edition Updated Compiled by Liliana Tojo Center for Justice and International Law - CEJIL, 2012. 436 p.; 24 x 17 cm. The commercialization of this publication is prohibited. Reproduction of the contents is authorized, provided that the source is quoted Editorial Team for the 2nd Edition: Liliana Tojo Pilar Elizalde Federico Taboada Translation Team (1st Spanish Edition) Carla Goretti (intern) Nancy V. Piñeiro (intern) Guillermo A. Tóffolo (intern) Colaboration in the translation and edition of the 2nd Edition: María Cecilia Lipovsek (intern) Consuelo Montesinos (volunteer) Edition, editorial and cover design: Folio Uno S.A. CEJIL´s Board of Directors: José Miguel Vivanco (President) Alejandro Garro (Vice-president) Helen Mack (Secretary) Mariclaire Acosta Urquidi Gastón Chillier Benjamín Cuellar Gustavo Gallón Sofía Macher Julieta Montaño SUMMARIES OF JURISPRUDENCE Gender-based Violence 2nd Edition Updated CEJIL´S WORK IS POSSIBLE THANKS TO THE GENEROUS CONTRIBUTION OF THE FOLLOWING SUPPORTERS: Dan Church Aid Diakonia/European Union EED Embassy of Canada in Argentina Foundation to Promote Open Society (FOSI) HIVOS Loyola University MISEREOR National Endowment for Democracy Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Royal Embassy of Norway in Argentina The Ford Foundation The John D. and Catherine MacArthur Foundation The Netherlands Embassy in Costa Rica The Oak Foundation The Sigrid Rausing Trust UNHCR United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture (UNVFVT) And individual and private donors who wish to remain anonymous. PRESENTATION In 2009 the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) introduced the series Tools for the Protection of Human Rights, organized in themes, with the goal to facilitate hu- man rights defenders access and utilization of the standards of national and international jurisprudence. The first of these Summaries of Jurisprudence addresses the Principles of Equality and No Discrimination. On this occasion, CEJIL is proud to present a new volume -Summaries of Jurisprudence. Gender-based Violence- which includes a selection of decisions from international organs of protection of human rights related to the protection of women victims of violence. This work is the result of an exhaustive research on the Judgments, Reports and Deci- sions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. This volume of international standards provides a solid jurisprudential research body and it presents a wider panorama of women’s reality in very different contexts revealing the indisputable persistence of gender-based violence in the world, in spite of the advances in the normative field. Moreover, it is necessary to emphasize that the selected cases are some of the most paradigmatic ones among those which, to date, have motivated some type of response from human rights protection systems. We would like to recognize the initiative and work of Liliana Tojo, Program Director for Bolivia and the Southern Cone, who led this compilation. We are especially grateful to the team of collaborators involved in this project: Ryan Shanovich, John Yandell, Ekate- rina Porras Sivolobova and Chelsea Sharon who, as members of the internship program, contributed to the selection and editing of the texts; to Silvia Firmenich and Maria Luisa Coduras, teachers of the I.E.S. en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández” in Buenos Ai- res (Argentina) who promoted an institutional agreement of internships allowing Nancy V. Piñeiro, Guillermo A. Tóffolo and Carla Goretti to conduct their practicum experiences with CEJIL, translating some of the texts included in this volume; and to Julieta Di Corleto who provided encouragement during the preliminary drafts of this initiative. Finally, we want to recognize the contribution of the United Nations Development Fund for Women, (UNIFEM) - Regional Brazil and Southern Cone, for the advancement of this project. We hope that it will be a useful tool which contributes to the defense of human rights and to the eradication of violence against women, one of the more tolerated and silen- ced human rights violations. Viviana Krsticevic Executive Director INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION In 2010, the volume Gender-based Violence was published by the Centre for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) as part of the collection Summaries of Jurisprudence. This publi- cation reflects the first selection of texts published in Spanish to include rulings emana- ting from international bodies of human rights protection, which relate to the protection of female victims of violence. As with all of CEJIL’s publications, this text is available in digital format on the organization’s website (http://cejil.org/en/publicaciones). These de- fining characteristics have earned this publication significant recognition from the inter- national community of human rights defenders. Indeed, it has been presented in various different nations in the Americas, it has been included as a compulsory text on reading lists for postgraduate studies relating to gender, and has given rise to numerous seminars and training sessions. CEJIL consistently strives to maintain the quality and utility of the material that it presents. As such, this edition of the publication has been updated in order to offer an exhaus- tive overview of some of the most demonstrative rulings issued by international justice institutions. Consequently, this volume includes sentences, reports and rulings of the Inter-American Court and Commission on Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. We would like to recognize the contribution of Pilar Elizalde and Federico Taboada to this edition of the publication. We hope that the reception of the second edition is equal to that of the