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Nicaragua

 

Nicaragua has a population estimated at 5.7 million (UN, 2009) with an area of 120,254 sq km (46,430 sq miles). The capital is Managua. The major languages are Spanish, English and indigenous languages.

Nicaragua has been considered as one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere, Nicaragua is currently dealing with the after-effects of dictatorship, civil war and natural calamities. Some 30% of all criminal complaints filed with the police in the first three months of the year 2009 involved sexual violence. According to police figures, the vast majority of the victims of sexual violence were girls aged 18 or under, although in many cases the abuse had not come to light for several years.

  • Nicaragua ratified The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on October 27, 1981
  • Nicaragua does not have a National Action Plan on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325)
  • Nicaragua does not have a UN peacekeeping mandate

Sources:BBC; Amnesty International; UNIFEM

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  • February 22, 2012 (Women In And Beyond The Global)
    NICARAGUA: Nicaraguan Feminists Protest For Their Bodies, Autonomy, Lives Yesterday, at the International Poetry Festival in Granada, there was a parade, with dancing and singing and cheers. There was also a protest by Nicaraguan women. Nicaraguan feminists.
  • February 12, 2012 (Inside Costa Rica)
    NICARAGUA: Forum on Violence against Women in Nicaragua A forum on violence against women will be held in Nicaragua on Friday, after the recent approval of a comprehensive legislation on the issue that combines preventive policies and tougher sentences.
  • November 29, 2011 (Al Jazeera)
    NICARAGUA: Ignoring Sexual Violence in Nicaragua Dominique Strauss-Kahn would not have lost his job if he was President of Nicaragua. He would have been re-elected. At least, that is what happened to the former Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega. Accusations that he sexually abused his stepdaughter did not seriously hurt his political career. Shielded by the judiciary and increasingly popular for his social programmes, Ortega went on to be re-elected President of Nicaragua this month. While Ortega's alleged sexual abuse may seem particularly gruesome, the tolerance of sexual abuse that enabled his re-election echoes broader inequalities of power that perpetuate violent societies in the region.
  • July 28, 2011 (Amnesty International)
    NICARAGUA: Visiting brave girls and women survivors of sexual violence in Nicaragua In Leon, a department in northwest Nicaragua, we visited the Centro Mary Barreda. Here they do amazing work supporting and protecting girls and women survivors of sexual violence and that have contracted HIV, as well as running educational prevention programmes in schools for children and teachers.
  • June 22, 2011 (International.to)
    NICARAGUA: Rape Victim Launches New Hunger Strike for Justice MANAGUA, Jun 21 (IPS) - After a series of hunger strikes and vigils, Fátima Hernández had managed to become an exception, as one of the few rape victims in Nicaragua to obtain justice. But now her fight has started all over again and the hope that her case offered to others might become a mirage.

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