The paper analyzes the López Soto v. Venezuela judgment delivered on 26 September 2018 by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The case deals with a young woman who was raped and forced to undergo all sorts of violence (physical, sexual and psychological) and acts of torture for several months. The Court unanimously condemned Venezuela for the gross violation of human rights because it did not adequately protect Ms. López Soto from her abductor. The case offers an opportunity to reflect on the international obligations that lie with national authorities in preventing and fighting violence and torture against women, laid down in the main Conventions entrenched in the Inter-American system of human rights.
Scars on Women’s Bodies: The State’s International Responsibility from the Perspective of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Women Victims of Sexual Slavery and Torture / P. Gambatesa. - In: RIVISTA DI DIRITTI COMPARATI. - ISSN 2532-6619. - 2023:(2023 Feb 22), pp. special issue 3.136-special issue 3.154. (Intervento presentato al convegno Sexual Violence against Women in International Criminal and Human Rights Case Law tenutosi a online - piattaforma Zoom nel 2021).
Scars on Women’s Bodies: The State’s International Responsibility from the Perspective of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Women Victims of Sexual Slavery and Torture
P. Gambatesa
2023
Abstract
The paper analyzes the López Soto v. Venezuela judgment delivered on 26 September 2018 by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The case deals with a young woman who was raped and forced to undergo all sorts of violence (physical, sexual and psychological) and acts of torture for several months. The Court unanimously condemned Venezuela for the gross violation of human rights because it did not adequately protect Ms. López Soto from her abductor. The case offers an opportunity to reflect on the international obligations that lie with national authorities in preventing and fighting violence and torture against women, laid down in the main Conventions entrenched in the Inter-American system of human rights.
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