What are the main obstacles that gender-based violence victims face in Argentina?
Especially thinking in my country and from personal experience, I believe that there are two main kinds of obstacles, legal and institutional. First, gender-based violence victims face legal obstacles in accessing justice throughout the country. For example, there is a lack of legal coordination among the agencies working in the field (police, judiciary, health and education). In addition, there is little integration between civil and criminal justice in the judicial system. Moreover, although the existing legal framework is appropriate, particularly the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence Against Women (Convention of Belem do Pará), and the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (Palermo Protocol), and in Argentina some recent legislation a
