Colombia Changes Laws on Domestic Violence Due to Push from Humphrey School Researchers | Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs
Humphrey School researchers Greta Friedemann-Sánchez and Margaret Grieve in Colombia, when they began their research into the country's system of addressing intimate partner violence. Colombia enacted a new law in August of 2021 to better protect women from intimate partner violence, due in large part to the work of two researchers at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs—Associate Professor Greta Friedemann-Sánchez and alumna Margaret Grieve (MPA '16). They began their research project in 2015 to explore why Colombia has such high rates of intimate partner violence, even thou...
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