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DECREE N ° 1001

THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF THE REPUBLIC OF EL SALVADOR,

CONSIDERING:

I.-That by Legislative Decree No. 733 dated October 22, 2008, published in Official Journal No. 20, Volume 382, dated January 30, 2009; issued

the Criminal Procedure Code, which needs to be harmonized before the adoption of the "Comprehensive Special Law for a Free Life of Violence for Women" and the " Law of Equality, Equity and Eradication of Discrimination Against Women. "

II.-That by Legislative Decree No. 520, dated November 25, 2010, published in Official Journal No. 2, Volume 390, of January 4, 2011, is

issued the "Comprehensive Special Law for a Free Life of Violence for Women".

III.-That by Legislative Decree No. 645, dated March 17, 2011, published in Official Journal No. 70, Volume No. 391 of 8 April 2011, the " Law of Equality, Equity and Eradication of Discrimination Against Women. "

IV.-That in the spirit of achieving the Penal Code, it should be applied as an integrated instrument, with the legislation approved in favor of the Human Rights of women, without excluding each other.

V.-That for the reasons This is necessary to include the integrality in the Penal Code, approved by Legislative Decree No. 733, dated 22 of

October 2008, published in the Official Journal No. 20, Tomo 382, dated January 30, 2009 with the the "Comprehensive Special Law for a Free Life of Violence for Women" and the " Law of Equality, Equity and Eradication

of Discrimination Against Women. "

BY TANTO,

in use of its Constitutional powers and on the initiative of the Diputados and Deputies: Ana Vilma Albáñez de Escobar, Emma Julia Fabian Hernández, Sandra Marlene Salgado, Norma Fidelia Guevara of

Ramírios, Guillermo Francisco Mata Bennett, Dina Yamileth Argueta Avelar, Marta Lorena Araujo, Bertha Mercedes Avilés de Rodríguez, Lucia del Carmen Ayala de Leon, Ana Lucia Baires de Martínez, Blanca Estela Barahona de Reyes, Marta Evelyn Batres Araujo, Silvia Alejandrina Castro Figueroa, Carmen Elena Calderón

Sol de Escalón, Richard Geston Claros Reyes, Norma Cristina Cornejo Amaya, Nidia Diaz, Nery Arely Diaz de Rivera, Carmen Elena Figueroa Rodriguez, Julio Cesar Fabian Perez, Coralia Patricia Guerra Andreu, Iris Marisol Guerra Henriquez, Estela Yanet Hernandez Rodriguez, Heidy Carolina Mira Saravia, Yeymi

Elizabett Munoz Moran, Audelia Guadalupe Lopez De Kleutgens, Hortensia Margarita Lopez Quintana, Silvia Estela Ostorga de Escobar, Mariela Peña Pinto, and Sonia Margarita Rodriguez Siguenza.

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