Velasquez-Rodriguez Case

States are responsible for private acts of violence (duty to investigate, prosecute and punish).

Topics

• Gender-based violence in general

Keywords

• violence
• 1988
• inter-american court of human rights

Year

• 1988

External URL

• Velasquez-Rodriguez Case

Court

• Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Type

• International Case Law

Jurisdiction

• Inter-American Court of Human Rights