TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1998//
TI  - Country watch: Peru
JO  - Sexual health exchange
A1  - Vargas Cuno, M.
SP  - 9
EP  - 9
VL  - 
IS  - 1
N2  - Estudio para la Defensa de Los Derechos de la Mujeri (DEMUA), a legal aid nongovernmental organization in Peru, organized a workshop to sensitize and train judges on sexual violence from a gender perspective and assess judges' perceptions of the problem. A total of 42 judges and seven staff members from the Judicial Control Office participated. Some participating judges maintained a formalistic approach to the law, which states sexual abuse is aggravated only if weapons were used and more than one perpetrator was involved and requires evidence of bodily harm for a rape charge, while others were less stringent about their interpretations. The latter group of judges tended to view sexual abuse as a crime that deprives victims of their liberty and harms their physical, sexual, and psychological health. 57% of participating judges indicated, at the end of the workshop, that the laws should be changed in terms of preventing and punishing sexual offenses and making marital rape a crime and wanted reassessment of the criteria for aggravated assault.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1388-3046
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -