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"The article focuses on gender-based violence (GBV) during crises and natural disasters, and the reemergence of obstacles that impede the protection of human rights of vulnerable groups often resulting in an increase of GBV, particularly among women and LGBTQ+ persons It introduces GBV through the case study of Puerto Rico, examining four of the 2020 transgender murders in the United States that occurred there By exploring how restriction of movement during times of crises affect the human rights of women and LGBTQ+ persons, it will emphasize the particular vulnerability of transgender persons It offers a webbased research platform, The Domestic Violence Project, as an example of efforts youth and community based organizations can explore to ensure the promotion, protection, and safety of vulnerable groups, particularly women and LGBTQ+ persons during quarantine periods including COVID-19, and proposes recommendations to nation-states, local governments, and communities" |
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“In August 2011, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights-the body of the Organization of American States responsible for the protection and promotion of human rights'-issued a decision in the case of Jessica Lenahan (Gonzales) v. United States,2 finding the United States responsible for human rights violations against Jessica Lenahan, a domestic violence victim, and her three deceased children. The Commission rebuked the U.S. Supreme Court's 2005 decision in an earlier iteration of the case, Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales, which held that Ms. Lenahan (then Gonzales) had no personal entitlement under the procedural component of the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause to police attention, let alone enforcement of her domestic violence restraining order, due to the discretionary nature of enforcement.” |
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“This article examines the state of domestic violence in Puerto Rico. It investigates the ways by which grassroots movements and governmental agencies work collaboratively and independently towards the eradication of violence and discrimination against women on the islands. It also explores the island’s past experience in managing change to create systems and programs that ensure women’s human rights and gender equality. It analyzes related legal reform in Puerto Rico within the context of human rights.” |
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"The most dangerous place for a woman is in the home, according to the latest United Nations Global Study.1 The U.N. study states a total of 87,000 women were intentionally killed in 2017.2 Over half of them (58%)—50,000—were killed by intimate partners or family members.3 Over a third (30,000) of the women intentionally killed in 2017 were killed by their current or former intimate partner—someone they would normally expect to trust.4 The U.N. report further states that 137 women across the world are killed by a member of their own fam-ily every day.5 In the United States, nearly twenty people per minute are physi-cally abused by an intimate partner. In one year, this impacts more than ten million women and girls." |
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