Country Cuba
Year 1991 - 1999
Type of Measure Research and statistical data > Other research and statistical data
Form of Violence Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence, Violence against women and girls

Brief Description


In the context of the systematization effort being conducted by the Centre for Women’s Studies, 20 studies on violence against women, especially those conducted since 1991, were reviewed and compiled. The authors are specialists from the Institute of Forensic Medicine and the National Directorate of FMC, the Office of the State Procurator, the Ministry of Justice, the Faculty of Medical Sciences and the 
main clinics of the Ministry of Public Health. They deal with violence in general problem and with domestic violence, including violence between spouses, in particular.

Source of Information

CEDAW/C/CUB/5-6 p.34