Poverty, in addition to being a multidimensional phenomenon, constitutes a violation of human rights, and this must be taken into account when measuring it. In this work we make a conceptual and methodological proposal for measuring poverty in which, starting from a comprehensive conceptualization of poverty in its three facets (monetary poverty, subjective poverty and existence poverty), and from the rights approach to establish its dimensions and indicators, we apply fuzzy set theory to its quantification. The results obtained in the specific population as a pilot case, Santiago de Chuco, in the Libertad Department, Peru, show that this methodology allows a broader capture of the poverty experienced, the degrees of families’ poverty, and a better identification of situations of vulnerability, compared to the poverty line method.

These work represents the continuation of our titled study "The gender violence in the legal systems of Civil Law (I) Latin America versus Europe: discriminations of coming and going", presented in the Fifth European Conference on Feminist Investigation, "Gender and Power in New the Europe" (Lund, Sweden, August of 2003), and in which we try to illustrate, through the analysis of the Peruvian legal system, how the violence against the woman contained in the Latin American legal systems is bigger than the violence that the legal systems of European countries produces. In this second part, we show how the globalization has supposed a reinforcement of the contained in the different legal systems gender violence.