KYRGYZSTAN | ASIA
Law on Social And Legal Protection from Violence within the Family (Law No. 62)
Type of Measure
Laws > Violence against women > Legislation
Form of Violence
Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence
Year
2003
Brief Description
On 25 March 2003 the President of the Kyrgyz Republic signed the law on social and legal protection against violence in the family (Law No. 62), regulating relations with regard to the social and legal protection of victims of family violence. This normative legal act also regulates protection against physical, psychological and sexual violence in the family. This law entered into force on 4 April 2003. For the implementation of this law, amendments were made through Law No. 98 of 26 July 2004 to the Kyrgyz Republic Code of Administrative Liability establishing liability for: family violence (article 66-3); non-compliance with the terms of a temporary protection order (article 66-4); and non-compliance with the terms of a judicial protection order (article 66-5). This law entered into force on 6 August 2004.
FORMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ADDRESSED
Domestic violence (family violence) is any deliberate act committed by one family member against another family member that limits the victim's legitimate rights and freedoms, inflicts physical or mental suffering and causes moral harm, or constitutes a threat to the physical or personal development of a member of the family who is a minor.
Physical domestic violence refers to physical abuse or beatings deliberately inflicted on one family member by another family member; harm to human health; the intentional deprivation by one family member of another family member's freedom of movement, housing, food, clothing and other normal living conditions; coercion to engage in hard physical labour; and failure by the parents, guardians, custodians or persons responsible for raising a minor to fulfil their responsibilities to safeguard and care for the health and personal safety of the minor, which may result in harm to his or her physical or mental health, damage to the honour and dignity of the person and impairment to his or her psychological, physical and personal development, or in the death of a family member [who is a minor];
Psychological domestic violence refers to the deliberate humiliation or degradation to which one family member is subjected by another family member or the coercion of that person, by means of threats, insults or blackmail, to commit offences or acts that pose a danger to his or her life or health or that result in the impairment of the psychological, physical or personal development of a family member who is a minor;
Sexual domestic violence is an act committed by one family member that infringes the sexual inviolability and sexual freedom of another family member, as well as acts of a sexual nature involving a family member who is a minor.
This law is intended to establish conditions for sound and healthy family relations. The following entities are engaged in the suppression and prevention of domestic violence and provide social support to the victims of domestic violence: judicial bodies, the Public Prosecutor's Office, internal affairs agencies, elders' courts, the Office of the Ombudsman (Akykatchy) of the Kyrgyz Republic, State institutions (within the limits of their authority) and other entities providing social and legal protection from domestic violence.
FORMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ADDRESSED
Domestic violence (family violence) is any deliberate act committed by one family member against another family member that limits the victim's legitimate rights and freedoms, inflicts physical or mental suffering and causes moral harm, or constitutes a threat to the physical or personal development of a member of the family who is a minor.
Physical domestic violence refers to physical abuse or beatings deliberately inflicted on one family member by another family member; harm to human health; the intentional deprivation by one family member of another family member's freedom of movement, housing, food, clothing and other normal living conditions; coercion to engage in hard physical labour; and failure by the parents, guardians, custodians or persons responsible for raising a minor to fulfil their responsibilities to safeguard and care for the health and personal safety of the minor, which may result in harm to his or her physical or mental health, damage to the honour and dignity of the person and impairment to his or her psychological, physical and personal development, or in the death of a family member [who is a minor];
Psychological domestic violence refers to the deliberate humiliation or degradation to which one family member is subjected by another family member or the coercion of that person, by means of threats, insults or blackmail, to commit offences or acts that pose a danger to his or her life or health or that result in the impairment of the psychological, physical or personal development of a family member who is a minor;
Sexual domestic violence is an act committed by one family member that infringes the sexual inviolability and sexual freedom of another family member, as well as acts of a sexual nature involving a family member who is a minor.
This law is intended to establish conditions for sound and healthy family relations. The following entities are engaged in the suppression and prevention of domestic violence and provide social support to the victims of domestic violence: judicial bodies, the Public Prosecutor's Office, internal affairs agencies, elders' courts, the Office of the Ombudsman (Akykatchy) of the Kyrgyz Republic, State institutions (within the limits of their authority) and other entities providing social and legal protection from domestic violence.
Source of Information
Response of the government of the Republic of Kyrgyz to the questionnaire on violence against women, 2008
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