A/71/398 implementation of the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women outlines, the need for justice administration bodies to follow up on the implementation of the criminal law and the aggravating circumstances presented therein. 66. The Special Rapporteur is aware that there are many more legislative and policy measures than those mentioned in the present report and invites all States and other stakeholders to provide her with examples of initiatives and measures in this field. 3. Jurisprudence on femicide and a global database 67. At the global level, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women had dealt with two cases, Goekce (deceased) v. Austria (communication No. 5/2005) and Yildirim (deceased) v. Austria (communication No. 6/2005), 25 in which both victims were murdered by their husbands following years of brutal abuse. Even though the violence had been reported to the police and protection orders had been obtained, a lack of coordination among law enforcement and judicial officials resulted in the repeated failure to detain the offenders and ensure the women’s safety. Two non-governmental organizations took the cases to the Committee under the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. The Committee’s decisions on t he cases, rendered in 2007, were of global significance because they made clear that the State’s obligation to protect women from domestic violence extended beyond passing laws. The Committee found that Austria had failed to act with due diligence by not e nsuring that the law had been implemented properly. In response to the Committee’s recommendations and the media attention that surrounded the cases, the Government of Austria introduced and accelerated legal reforms to protect women from violence, including an amendment to the Code of Criminal Procedure, new protection measures and the creation of specialized domestic violence prosecutors. 68. At the regional level, in Opuz v. Turkey, 26 the European Court of Human Rights decided that Turkey was in breach of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms for failing to protect the applicant and her mother from the violent attacks of her spouse in circumstances that resulted in the murder of the mother. 69. In Caso González y Otras v. México 21 (the “Cotton Field” case), the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights decided that Mexico had violated the rights, under the Inter-American Convention of Human Rights, of three women who had disappeared and been tortured and murdered. It also found that their mothers’ rights under the Convention had been violated. In so doing, the Court recognized that violence against women in the city of Juárez, which had been occurring since 1993, was a structural violation of human rights for which the State was responsible and ordered reparations, including measures of non-repetition, acknowledgement and concrete action in relation to cases since 1993. __________________ 25 26 20/24 CEDAW/C/39/D/5/2005 and CEDAW/C/39/D/6/2005, respectively. Available from http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#{“dmdocnumber”:[“851046”],”itemid”:[“001 92945”]}. 16-16456