Law to Combat Domestic Violence 2016

Brief Description

The Law to Combat Domestic Violence was revised in 2016. The purpose of this law is to regulate all matters pertaining to protection against human rights violations, ensuring victims’ safety, holding perpetrators accountable, and regulating the participation of government and NGOs, citizens, economic entities and authorities in combating and preventing domestic violence. The revised law is approved in 2016, which criminalizes domestic violence for the first time in the nation’s history.