President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed a law on ensuring women's rights and child safety, as well as amendments to the Code of Administrative Offences, Tengrinews reports.kz with reference to Akorda's press service.
"President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Amendments and additions to some legislative acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on ensuring women's rights and child safety" and "On Amendments and Additions to the Code of Administrative Offences of the Republic of Kazakhstan on ensuring women's rights and child safety," the message reads.
It is noted that the relevant instructions to toughen penalties for violence against women and children were announced by the Head of State in the Messages to the People of Kazakhstan dated March 16, 2022 and September 1, 2023.
"The adopted amendments were widely discussed with the public. Representatives of non-governmental organizations, the National Kurultai under the President, the National Commission on Women's Affairs and Family and Demographic Policy under the President, the National Center for Human Rights and the Commissioner for Children's Rights took part in the meetings of the chambers of Parliament," the Akorda press service noted.
Earlier, the deputies of the Senate voted to approve the law in the first and second readings.
The amendments are aimed at improving the legal, social, institutional and other foundations of state family policy, strengthening the protection of women's rights and child safety, tightening administrative and criminal liability for violations of their safety, and preventing violence in the family and household sphere.
The Law regulating women's rights and child safety introduces the following amendments to the Criminal Code:
prohibition on the imposition of a more lenient punishment than provided for in the special part of the Code when persons commit crimes related to violence against minors;
reconciliation of the parties for crimes related to violence against minors is excluded, as well as in cases of repeated commission of criminal offenses provided for in articles 108-1 a year after reconciliation ("Intentional infliction of minor harm to health") and 109-1 ("Beatings") of the Code;
for acts aimed at intentionally causing serious harm to health, moderate harm to health, an alternative punishment in the form of restriction of freedom is excluded and a punishment in the form of imprisonment is established;
The punishment is life imprisonment for the murder of a minor (Article 99 of the Criminal Code), the commission of rape against a minor (Article 120 of the Criminal Code) and for violent acts of a sexual nature against a minor (Article 121 of the Criminal Code) by excluding other alternative penalties provided for in the current norms of the Criminal Code;
Liability is introduced for sexual harassment of persons under the age of 16;
Punishment is established for inducing to commit suicide or assisting in the commission of suicide;
A new article is being introduced that establishes special requirements for the behavior of a person who has committed a criminal offense, applied by the court;
criminal liability for intentional infliction of minor harm to health and beatings by transferring them from the Administrative Code to the Criminal Code.
Source: tengrinews.kz
"President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Amendments and additions to some legislative acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on ensuring women's rights and child safety" and "On Amendments and Additions to the Code of Administrative Offences of the Republic of Kazakhstan on ensuring women's rights and child safety," the message reads.
It is noted that the relevant instructions to toughen penalties for violence against women and children were announced by the Head of State in the Messages to the People of Kazakhstan dated March 16, 2022 and September 1, 2023.
"The adopted amendments were widely discussed with the public. Representatives of non-governmental organizations, the National Kurultai under the President, the National Commission on Women's Affairs and Family and Demographic Policy under the President, the National Center for Human Rights and the Commissioner for Children's Rights took part in the meetings of the chambers of Parliament," the Akorda press service noted.
Earlier, the deputies of the Senate voted to approve the law in the first and second readings.
The amendments are aimed at improving the legal, social, institutional and other foundations of state family policy, strengthening the protection of women's rights and child safety, tightening administrative and criminal liability for violations of their safety, and preventing violence in the family and household sphere.
The Law regulating women's rights and child safety introduces the following amendments to the Criminal Code:
prohibition on the imposition of a more lenient punishment than provided for in the special part of the Code when persons commit crimes related to violence against minors;
reconciliation of the parties for crimes related to violence against minors is excluded, as well as in cases of repeated commission of criminal offenses provided for in articles 108-1 a year after reconciliation ("Intentional infliction of minor harm to health") and 109-1 ("Beatings") of the Code;
for acts aimed at intentionally causing serious harm to health, moderate harm to health, an alternative punishment in the form of restriction of freedom is excluded and a punishment in the form of imprisonment is established;
The punishment is life imprisonment for the murder of a minor (Article 99 of the Criminal Code), the commission of rape against a minor (Article 120 of the Criminal Code) and for violent acts of a sexual nature against a minor (Article 121 of the Criminal Code) by excluding other alternative penalties provided for in the current norms of the Criminal Code;
Liability is introduced for sexual harassment of persons under the age of 16;
Punishment is established for inducing to commit suicide or assisting in the commission of suicide;
A new article is being introduced that establishes special requirements for the behavior of a person who has committed a criminal offense, applied by the court;
criminal liability for intentional infliction of minor harm to health and beatings by transferring them from the Administrative Code to the Criminal Code.
Source: tengrinews.kz