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Venezuela Combats Gender Violence
Caracas - Venezuela'ss National Institute
of Women (INAMUJER) announced creation of Gender
Violence Attention Units in 10 zones of the
Metropolitan Police in the capital.
The National Defender of Rights of Women of the
institution, Neyla Ysturdes explained that the
Metropolitan police receives charges established in
the Organic Law of Women's Rights for a Life Free
Violence.
Ysturdes added that INAMUJER proposes integrating
efforts and resources to create centers of primary
attention with participation of Community Councils,
Institutions and social organizations using police
offices.
She explained that the country has a national legal
order that guarantees protection of the rights of
women.
The announcement was made to reporters at the end of
the meeting of Ysturdes with the general command of
the Metropolitan Police, Carlos Alberto Mesa and
high officials of the Supreme Court of Justice and
United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
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