Domestic Violence

 

In the last decade, Latin America and Caribbean countries have made important legislative and programmatic progress to eradicate domestic violence. Nevertheless, the region continues to face a high incidence of violence against women, with serious effects in their human rights; physical and psychological health, self-esteem, and in their economic participation and productivity.

On 1997 the IDB assumed leadership in identifying social and domestic violence as problems for development. Since then, the Bank has made important contributions to raise the visibility of this issue in the region by developing studies that demonstrate violence's high economic costs; and financing pilot projects to identify the most effective interventions on prevention and treatment of the problem. At the same time, social and citizen security loans approved by the Bank include components of domestic violence in the understanding that the violence learned at home contributes to social violence.