A/71/398 disaggregate, analyse and report data on the gender-related killing of women and girls and to ensure that appropriate punishments for perpetrators of the gender-related killing of women and girls are in place and are proportionate to the gravity of the offence. 1. General recommendations in relation to the prevention of femicide 82. States should undertake to do the following: (a) Ratify, fully incorporate and accelerate the implementation of relevant international and regional conventions on violence against women and gender equality; (b) Review and update legislation on violence against women in order to strengthen the prevention of violence against women, the prosecution of perpetrators and the provision of services and compensation for victims of such violence. States should, in particular, repeal all criminal provisions on homicide, femicide and violence against women that include factors, including passion, honour, provocation and violent emotion, that allow perpetrators to escape criminal responsibility for femicide; (c) Collect and publish data on femicide and other forms of violence against women and establish a femicide watch or observatories on violence against women with such functions; (d) Cooperate to establish and implement a common methodology for the collection of comparable data and the establishment of a femicide watch; (e) Provide police and prosecutors with specific expertise on risk assessment and risk management, establish specialized units on violence against women and encourage courts to gain specific expertise on femicide and violence against women. 2. Recommendations on modalities for the establishment of a femicide watch and/or observatory on violence against women 83. The Special Rapporteur recommends the following modalities for the establishment of a national femicide watch and/or observatories on violence against women: (a) There should be a flexible model for the establishment of a national femicide watch that should depend on the needs and national realities of each State. Where there is no such mechanism, they should be established where there are existing systems and structures for reporting violence against women and incorporated into them; (b) States should systematically collect relevant disaggregated data on all forms of violence against women, in particular on femicide or the gender related killing of women, which could include the killing of children in this regard. States should disaggregate data on femicide under two broad categories, which could include subcategories in line with their national realities, namely, intimate partner femicide or family-related femicide, based on a relationship between the victim and the perpetrator, and other femicides; 16-16456 23/24