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Institutional Actions
Institutional actions to confront violence against women:
Programs of the Secretariat of the State of Women for preventing and confronting intrafamily violence and violence against women.
Creation, by Decree 423-98, of the National Commission for the Prevention of and Fight against Intrafamily Violence (CONAPLUVI) and its strategic plan.
Development of a National Model of Assistance.
Creation of specialized departments to assist victims of violence in:
General Attorney’s Office of the Republic.
Secretariat of the State of Health (SESPAS).
Standards of health assistance to female victims of violence.
Department of assistance for abused women.
Unit of assistance for and prevention of pregnancy in adolescents in public hospitals.
Department of Protection for women in the National Police Force.
Special units for women’s issues.
Departments and prosecutors specialized in domestic violence and violence against women, in the District Attorney’s Office of the Distrito Nacional and in the interior of the country.
Department of women and minors in the Secretariat of Foreign Relations
Implementation of the National Program of Assistance for and Prevention of Violence against Women in the entire country.
Updating of the National Plan for Gender Equity, with particular emphasis in the component on violence against women.