Venezuela neglecting battered women
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Venezuela is dragging its feet in establishing a support system for battered women, Amnesty International said in a report issued Wednesday.
President Hugo Chavez's government passed new domestic violence legislation in March 2007 requiring that, among other things, Venezuela's 23 states and more than 300 municipalities construct women's shelters.
But more than a year later, no new facilities have been built, London-based Amnesty said.
ust two such shelters exist across this nation of 27 million people — and both were up and running two years before the law was passed, according to the National Women's Institute. But the government-run institute reported that at least three more are under revision or have been approved by local authorities.
President Hugo Chavez's government passed new domestic violence legislation in March 2007 requiring that, among other things, Venezuela's 23 states and more than 300 municipalities construct women's shelters.
But more than a year later, no new facilities have been built, London-based Amnesty said.
ust two such shelters exist across this nation of 27 million people — and both were up and running two years before the law was passed, according to the National Women's Institute. But the government-run institute reported that at least three more are under revision or have been approved by local authorities.
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