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Convention of Belém do Pará

Signatures and current status of Ratifications of the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women "Convention of Belém do Pará"

(Adopted at Belém do Pará, Brazil, on June 9, 1994,
at the twenty fourth regular session of the General Assembly)

ENTRY INTO FORCE: March 5, 1995
DEPOSITARY: General Secretariat OAS (Original instrument and ratifications)
TEXT
UN REGISTRATION:

SIGNATORY COUNTRIES	SIGNATURE	REF RA/AC/REF AD	DEPOSIT
Antigua and Barbuda	/ /	08/12/98	11/19/98 AD
Argentina	06/10/94	04/09/96	07/05/96 RA
Bahamas1	05/16/95	05/03/95	05/16/95 AD
Barbados	05/16/95	02/08/95	05/16/95 RA
Belize	11/15/96	11/25/96	11/25/96 AD
Bolivia	09/14/94	10/26/94	12/05/94 RA
Brazil	06/09/94	11/16/95	11/27/95 RA
Canada	/ /	/ /	/ /
Chile	10/17/94	10/24/96	11/15/96 RA
Colombia	/ /	10/03/96	11/15/96 AD
Costa Rica	06/09/94	07/05/95	07/12/95 RA
Dominica	/ /	06/30/95	06/06/95 RA
Dominican Republic	06/09/94	01/10/96	03/07/96 RA
Ecuador	01/10/95	06/30/95	09/15/95 RA
El Salvador	08/14/95	11/13/95	01/26/96 RA
Grenada	/ /	11/29/00	02/15/01 RA
Guatemala	06/24/94	01/04/95	04/04/95 RA
Guyana	01/10/95	01/08/96	02/28/96 RA
Haiti	/ /	04/07/97	06/02/97 AD
Honduras	06/10/94	07/04/95	07/12/95 RA
Jamaica	12/14/05	11/11/05	12/14/05 RA
Mexico	06/04/95	06/19/98	11/12/98 RA
Nicaragua	06/09/94	10/06/95	12/12/95 RA
Panama	10/05/94	04/26/95	07/12/95 RA
Paraguay	10/17/95	09/29/95	10/18/95 RA
Peru	07/12/95	04/02/96	06/04/96 RA
St. Kitts and Nevis	06/09/94	03/17/95	06/12/95 RA
St. Lucia	11/11/94	03/08/95	04/04/95 RA
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	03/05/96	05/23/96	05/31/96 RA
Suriname	/ /	02/19/02	03/08/02 RA
Trinidad and Tobago	11/03/95	01/04/96	05/08/96 RA
United States	/ /	/ /	/ /
Uruguay	06/30/94	01/04/96	04/02/96 RA
Venezuela	06/09/94	01/16/95	02/03/95 RA

DECLARATIONS/RESERVATIONS/DENUNCIATIONS/WITHDRAWALS

REF = REFERENCE                    INST = TYPE OF INSTRUMENT
D = DECLARATION                    RA = RATIFICATION
R = RESERVATION                    AC = RECOGNITION
                                               AD = ACCESSION

1. BAHAMAS:

(Declaration made at the time of signature)

Article 7(g) of the Convention imports no obligation upon the Government of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas to provide any form of compensation from public funds to any woman who has been subjected to violence in circumstances in which liability would not normally have been incurred under existing Bahamian law.