Gender-Based-Violence In Chile

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Chile is a country that most of it's citizens say they are extremely satisfied with it, but it still has kept most info about Gender-based-violence (GBV) under wraps. Chile has been elected as one of the ten non-permanent member of the UN Security Council and while the UN has helped Chile with disaster relief before, they have never had to step in to stop conflict between Chile and another nation, they also haven't really stepped in to stop GBV in Chile. The issue is either extremely nonexistent, or the Chilean government has not disclosed much information to the public There isn't much information at our disposal, but here is what we have been able to scrounge up.

In the October of 2006, the General Secretary of the United Nations published

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