Integral remedy for victims focused on gender-based violence

Abstract

The path that humanity has traveled to obtain the recognition and respect of fundamental rights has been a long and thorny one, but it has not been in vain. As humanity one of the biggest achievements we’ve accomplished so far is to be subject of the protection of International Public Law, which gives us the opportunity to demand at an international level for the respect of our rights.

 Another of the greatest accomplishments In the recent years, is that the concert of nations, the international human rights courts, as well as the United Nations committees for the human rights conventions, stablish the parameters upon which the victims of human rights violations shall be repaired.Gender issues and violence suffered by women solely because their gender has also been incorporated in several international and regional conventions.

Through International sentences, States have become more aware of the obligations adopted by the ratification of a human rights treaty, particularly the existence of specific obligations related to gender-based violence against women.

 Nevertheless, there still exist huge obstacles on how to fulfill the international human rights obligations and what means are required to repair a human rights violation.

 This obstacle is the motive of the present article, through a dogmatic and practical analysis, to help the reader to mainly understand how to repair a human rights violation focusing on cases of gender-based violence against women all of which in the light of some general considerations.