Lineamientos para la protección de mujeres en riesgo de violencia mortal por parte de parejas o ex parejas

Abstract

The analysis of the results of the application of the Valuation Protocol of Mortal Violence against Women by their partner or ex-partner, developed by the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences and the Office of the Attorney General during 2016, revealed that even though there is a solid normative framework and a clear responsibility of the Colombian State to protect women in risk of deadly violence, the expected results are not achieved in practice due to the lack of effectiveness of the norms regarding the expected objectives.

These barriers have to do with aspects such as the naturalization of violence against women and the disregard of risk, accompanied by stereotyped and discriminatory visions of the public employees in charge of recommending and applying protection measurements.

Additionally, we present the arguments that enable us to place the crimes that derive from deadly violence against women by their partners or ex-partners as faults that go beyond the individual and intimate realm, harm the whole society and seriously engage the State’s responsibility.

Therefore, this document proposes guidelines that aim to be accepted and implemented by the Office of the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation with regard to the normative measurements and the institutions of its competence.