2025/03/24 by Sawadogo, Paliguewinde Martin
#VEF #gender #inequalities #law #social change
paper · doi:10.57832/8fbv-0267
This article analyzes the impact of legal measures to combat violence against women (VAW) in Burkina Faso. Its aim is to assess the effectiveness of this system in the face of the persistence of VAW, fanned by the current security crisis. The results reveal a mixed picture. On the one hand, thanks to the adoption of legal texts and the establishment of some institutions, several actions have been sustained in the fight against VAW. On the other hand, the existence of pitfalls in the texts and institutional dysfunctions prevent the legal system in question from substantially reducing the practice of VAW. In order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to mobilize, in addition to the law, other agents of social change with an often underestimated incremental potential, such as customary and religious authorities.