INTER-AMERICAN CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION,
PUNISHMENT, AND ERADICATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

"CONVENTION OF BELÉM DO PARÁ"

 

(Adopted in Belém do Pará, Brasil, on June 9, 1994,
at the twenty fourth regular session of the
General Assembly)

 

ENTRY INTO FORCE:          March 5, 1995  
DEPOSITARY:                   General Secretariat OAS (Original instrument and ratifications)  
TEXT                      
UN REGISTRATION: 

                                                          

SIGNATORY COUNTRIES

SIGNATURE

REF RA/AC/REF AD

DEPOSIT

Antigua and Barbuda

/  /

08/12/98

11/19/98 AD

Argentina

06/10/94

04/09/96

07/05/96 RA

Bahamas1

05/16/95

05/03/95

05/16/95 AD

Barbados

05/16/95

02/08/95

05/16/95 RA

Belize

11/15/96

11/25/96

11/25/96 AD

Bolivia

09/14/94

10/26/94

12/05/94 RA

Brazil

06/09/94

11/16/95

11/27/95 RA

Canada

/  /

/  /

/  /

Chile

10/17/94

10/24/96

11/15/96 RA

Colombia

/  /

10/03/96

11/15/96 AD

Costa Rica

06/09/94

07/05/95

07/12/95 RA

Dominica

/  /

06/30/95

06/06/95 RA

Dominican Republic

06/09/94

01/10/96

03/07/96 RA

Ecuador

01/10/95

06/30/95

09/15/95 RA

El Salvador

08/14/95

11/13/95

01/26/96 RA

Grenada

/  /

11/29/00

02/15/01 RA

Guatemala

06/24/94

01/04/95

04/04/95 RA

Guyana

01/10/95

01/08/96

02/28/96 RA

Haiti

/  /

04/07/97

06/02/97 AD

Honduras

06/10/94

07/04/95

07/12/95 RA

Jamaica

12/14/05

11/11/05

12/14/05 RA

Mexico

06/04/95

06/19/98

11/12/98 RA

Nicaragua

06/09/94

10/06/95

12/12/95 RA

Panama

10/05/94

04/26/95

07/12/95 RA

Paraguay

10/17/95

09/29/95

10/18/95 RA

Peru

07/12/95

04/02/96

06/04/96 RA

St. Kitts and Nevis

06/09/94

03/17/95

06/12/95 RA

St. Lucia

11/11/94

03/08/95

04/04/95 RA

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

03/05/96

05/23/96

05/31/96 RA

Suriname

/  /

02/19/02

03/08/02 RA

Trinidad and Tobago

11/03/95

01/04/96

05/08/96 RA

United States

/  /

/  /

/  /

Uruguay

06/30/94

01/04/96

04/02/96 RA

Venezuela

06/09/94

01/16/95

02/03/95 RA

 

DECLARATIONS/RESERVATIONS/DENUNCIATIONS/WITHDRAWALS

 

AD: ACCESSION
RA:  RATIFICATION

 

1.      BAHAMAS: 

 

(Declaration made at the time of signature)

 

Article 7(g) of the Convention imports no obligation upon the Government of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas to provide any form of compensation from public funds to any woman who has been subjected to violence in circumstances in which liability would not normally have been incurred under existing Bahamian law.

 

 

 

BASIC DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO HUMAN RIGHTS
IN THE INTER-AMERICAN SYSTEM

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