Six - Point Checklist on Justice for Violence Against Women

This publication provides practical tools for investigating at all levels obstacles to justice to women survivors of violence.

Sexual and gender-based acts of violence are always a crime and a fundamental violation of human rights. Sadly, violence is a daily reality for many women in every country in the world. International human rights standards oblige states to criminalize rape and other forms of sexual and gender-based violence and to address those crimes. 

This checklist is intended to help activists and
advocates to identify:

• laws, policies and practices which still need to be reformed and
• obstacles to the successful implementation of laws and policies.