Article 15. General measures for prevention, revealing and elimination of cases of harassment and abuse of women
On protection of women from harassment and abuse (LRU-561-son) · Date: 02.09.2019 · In force
General measures for prevention, revealing and elimination of cases of harassment and abuse of women shall include the following:
development and implementation of state, territorial and other programs in the field of preventing harassment and abuse of women;
analysis, study and assessment of factors that appear to be reasons and conditions for harassment and abuse;
legal propaganda among the population;
conducting statistical records and reporting cases of harassment and abuse of women and their submission to state statistics bodies;
conducting educational outreach activities in order to provide citizens, especially women, with information about their rights, freedoms and duties, as well as guarantees of protection;
introducing effective legal mechanisms to reveal cases of harassment and abuse of women;
conducting preventive measures against people belonging to groups of harassment and abuse committment risk or of the committers;
implementing measures to help and protect victims of harassment and abuse;
application of enforcement actions towards people, who have committed or are prone to commit harassment and abuse of women;
bringing perpetrators to statutory liability.
