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Policy Analysis

Vol. 6 (2025): Panoply Journal

The validity of women’s witness in court cases of gender violence

DOI: https://doi.org/10.71166/8gyp6733
Submitted
2 January 2025
Published
21 February 2025

Abstract

In many cases of reports about gender violence abuses, the women’s witness is not validated by the executive and judicial forces. This is fed by a patriarchal system which quite a few times minimizes the abuses, puts the victim’s witness in doubt, and adds difficulty to the judicial process. A suspicion that the accusations may be false is so much commoner than the reality of false reports. That affects not only the women who dare to speak up, re-victimizing them, but also those who are thinking of reporting these situations.

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