Case of Raquel Martín de Mejía
In 1996, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) addressed the case of Raquel Martín de Mejía, who was sexually assaulted twice after her husband was detained by military personnel in Oxapampa, Pasco, Peru. The IACHR concluded that these repeated sexual abuses constituted a violation of Articles 5 and 11 …