Work on legal act to protect against domestic violence to begin in Belarus in 2015

      Work will begin in Belarus in 2015 to develop a legal act to protect citizens against domestic violence, BelTA learned from Oleg Karazei, Head of the Prevention Office of the Central Office for Law Enforcement and Prevention of the Public Security Police of the Belarusian Interior Ministry.
The official explained that it will be a comprehensive document. It will regulate all the social relations that evolve during the emergence of a violence situation in a family. It will determine interaction between government agencies, decision making and the provision of aid to violence victims, including their rehabilitation. The document will also stipulate measures of compensatory remedy with regard to aggressors in domestic violence.
       Oleg Karazei added that more than 100 countries across the globe already have such laws in place. Belarusian specialists have studied the state-of-the-art foreign experience. The Interior Ministry will take care of organizing the work to prepare the new legal act to counteract domestic violence, he concluded.