A/HRC/35/30/Add.3 all the provinces; for example, the autonomous city of Buenos Aires applied its own law on domestic violence. 56. Article 26 of the Law on violence against women sets out urgent preventive measures and provides that, at any stage of the proceedings, the intervening judge may order one or more of the following preventive measures: prohibit the alleged perpetrator from approaching the woman’s place of residence, work, study, recreation or habitual attendance; order the alleged perpetrator to cease all acts of disturbance or intimidation directly or indirectly carried out against the woman; order the immediate restitution of personal effects to the petitioner, if necessary; prohibit the alleged aggressor from buying and possessing weapons and confiscate those in his possession; provide security measures at the woman’s home; order any other measures necessary to ensure the safety of the woman, to stop the situation of violence and to avoid the repetition of any act of disturbance, intimidation, aggression or mistreatment. The judge may impose more than one measure at a time and shall set the duration of the measures according to the case. 57. However, other laws were not fully in line with those provisions of the Law on violence against women. For example, article 2 of Law No. 24.417 on protection against family violence states that a judge may prohibit the perpetrator from accessing the home and the places of work or study of the victim, but makes no mention of other places, such as the homes of relatives or places of recreation, which leaves the woman vulnerable if she is somewhere that is not explicitly provided for in the law. 58. Article 32 of the Law on violence against women provides that, in the event that the perpetrator fails to comply with the measures ordered, the judge may evaluate the suitability of modifying or extending them or ordering others. In the event of a new breach by the perpetrator, the judge can apply any of the following sanctions: issue a warning to the perpetrator; inform the perpetrator’s organization, institution, syndicate, professional association or workplace of his violent behaviour; order the perpetrator to undertake therapy with a view to modifying his violent behaviour. If the non-compliance consists of disobedience or another offence, the judge shall draw it to the attention of a judge with jurisdiction in criminal matters. Article 239 of the Criminal Code 57 provides for imprisonment of 15 days to one year for a person who resists or disobeys a public official in the legitimate exercise of his functions or the professional who is providing him or her with assistance, whether at his or her request or under a legal obligation. Although article 239 of the Criminal Code could be invoked as a basis for detention and prosecution of individuals violating protection orders, the violations were often interpreted by civil judges as atypical conduct rather than as a crime, so that they were neither reported nor prosecuted. 59. Despite the existence in law of a variety of preventive measures, the Special Rapporteur received numerous reports that the enforcement of protection orders was weak and that, after obtaining a protection order, victims did not receive adequate assistance from the police and were therefore revictimized. 60. The Special Rapporteur was informed that, in numerous cases, police officers refused to take reports from victims of domestic violence; victims had to report instances of violence several times before obtaining a restraining order; some cases of violence were still reported by the police as a family conflict and no lethality risk assessment was conducted; the police did not provide adequate assistance and information about shelters or restraining orders to victims of domestic violence; and investigations were halted when a victim withdrew her statement. 61. The Special Rapporteur also received reports that women often had to file several complaints for different incidents of domestic violence and initiate legal proceedings in different courts — for example, the family court, the court of justice of the peace to obtain protective measures, the criminal court for threats, injuries, attempted murder or murder — without any connection necessarily being made between the cases. Reportedly, the Supreme 57 14 Argentina, Criminal Code, Law No. 11.179 of 21 December 1984, last amended 19 December 2012.