Criminal penalties where necessary and civil remedies in cases of domestic violence.

In the complainant's view, civil administrative remedies would not provide sufficient redress in his case.

3.8 As to the exhaustion of domestic remedies, the author argues, with respect to the pending civil complaint, that a victim is only required to pursue one remedy to exhaustion (that is, the criminal complaint), even if other remedies are available.

(vii) Ensuring appropriate civil and administrative remedies and criminal sanctions for violations of human rights, as well as effective protection for human rights defenders

Convinced that, through their own national legal and judicial systems, States must provide appropriate civil, criminal and administrative remedies for violations of human rights,

Convinced that, through their own national legal and judicial systems, States must provide appropriate civil, criminal and administrative remedies for violations of human rights,

On admissibility, it submits that, although the petitioner has exhausted available remedies under criminal law, there remain two civil actions which he has not pursued.

6.2 The Committee notes that the State party objects to the admissibility of the complaint on the grounds of failure to exhaust civil domestic remedies.

The Committee stated in the same decision that mere doubts about the effectiveness of available civil remedies do not absolve a petitioner from pursuing them .l

The Committee recalls its jurisprudencef that the types of civil remedies proposed by the State party may not be considered as offering an adequate avenue of redress.

Local remedies

Exhaustion of local remedies

VICTIMS' RIGHT TO REMEDIES

PART THREE LOCAL REMEDIES

Victims' right to remedies

VICTIMS' RIGHT TO REMEDIES

And the general rule of exhausting domestic remedies requires only that remedies offering effective relief be exhausted.

5.2 On the issue of exhaustion of domestic remedies, the author states that no further remedies are available.

VII. Victims' right to remedies

Those measures should include penal sanctions, civil remedies and compensatory provisions, as well as preventive measures, such as public information and education programmes and protective measures such as support services for victims of violence.

Issues discussed included actions by Governments and civil society innovative practices in housing rights equal access to housing resources access to legal and other remedies combating homelessness and security of tenure and forced evictions.

Ms. García (Paraguay) said that there were two legal remedies in Paraguay for cases of domestic violence Act No. 1600 on domestic violence represented the civil remedy, while the Penal Code represented the criminal remedy.

Principle 6 International and domestic remedies

Exceptions to the local remedies rule

International legal remedies must be explored.

Procedural issues Exhaustion of domestic remedies

Procedural issues Exhaustion of domestic remedies

The State party recalls that the author did not avail himself of these remedies, and thus did not exhaust domestic remedies.

It observes that the author has not submitted that such remedies are ineffective or that such remedies would be unreasonably prolonged.

Guidelines and remedies needed to be adopted.

Draft article 14 Exhaustion of local remedies

Draft principle 6 International and domestic remedies

(d) Remedies for breach of patent rights

Remedies called for under the Committee's Views

Procedural issues Non exhaustion of domestic remedies

Procedural issues Non exhaustion of domestic remedies

Consequently, domestic remedies have not been exhausted.

To consider effective enforcement mechanisms and remedies.

(a) There are no reasonably available local remedies to provide effective redress, or the local remedies provide no reasonable possibility of such redress

And this is possible because civil society joined the companies and joined the government in the analysis of the problem, in the development of remedies, in the implementation of reforms, and then later, in the monitoring of reforms.

(d) All effective available domestic remedies have not been exhausted. This rule shall not apply where the application of the remedies is unreasonably prolonged.

Victims of terrorist acts are entitled to full remedies for the violations of their rights in conformity with international law relating to effective remedies and reparations.

Local remedies do not need to be exhausted where

Draft article 16 Exceptions to the local remedies rule

They state that they have exhausted all domestic remedies.