Investor Presentaiton
Cape Verde is part of the core human rights instruments. International agreement of the civil
and political rights, International agreement of the Economic, Social and Cultural rights, the
Convention regarding elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination; Convention
regarding elimination of all forms of Women Discrimination, Convention against Torture and
other Harm and Cruelty, Atrocious and Degrading Treatment, Convention regarding Child
Rights, Convention of the UN regarding International Organized Crime and Additional
Protocols, etc.
It is important to emphasise that such international instruments, have singular importance and
privileged status in the sense that they prevail above all legislative and normative acts of the
Constitution.
They are also part of the Cape-verdean juridical regime for rights, liberties and guarantees
non-predicted in the Constitution but predicted in any law or international convention.
It is important to notice the fact that the Constitution of the Republic attributes internal biding
force to the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights, stipulating that constitutional and
legal rules should be interpreted and integrated in harmony with such instrument.
Fundamental rights have also immediate applicability and binding to public and private
entities giving like this a greater effectiveness.
This tight follow up of the international development in matters of human rights have allowed
a positive evolution in internal transformations.
In the same order, other legislative interventions were accomplished, many of which inspired
in international treaties from which Cape Verde is part of, as the new Penal Code of 2004, by
including crimes related to domestic violence, crimes against humanity, genocide, crimes
against laws of war. Combined to this achievement, and as a result of it was taken in to force
the new 2005 Penal Process Code, concerned in making effective all process guarantees and
equivalent legal process. This paper includes an important rule in the fight against domestic
violence although it is not possible to do a substantial evaluation of its efficiency up to
present in the removal of the aggressor from the family house of residence.
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