Modalities for the establishment of femicides/gender-related killings watch 2016, para. 34
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- In 2015, the Secretary-General submitted a report to the General Assembly on action against the gender-related killing of women and girls (A/70/93), in which he reiterated the recommendations made at the expert group meeting. In a second resolution, also initiated by the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and adopted by the General Assembly (resolution 70/176), on taking action against the gender-related killing of women and girls, the Assembly reiterated its call for action by Member States with the support of the United Nations. It noted that one of the every two women victims of homicide was killed by her intimate partner or a family member. The Assembly called upon Member States to strengthen criminal justice responses to the gender-related killing of women and girls; enhance international cooperation and the exchange of good practices in criminal matters related to gender-based violence; promote integrated and comprehensive strategies to prevent the gender-related killing of women and girls, which included early and continuous educational programmes, community mobilization and awareness-raising, in order to counter attitudes and social factors that fostered, justified or tolerated any violence against women and girls; adopt integrated and comprehensive responses to violence against women in order to reduce risks of gender-related killing through a number of listed measures; address impunity and punish perpetrators; provide support for victims; and collect, disaggregate, analyse and report data on the gender-related killing of women and girls, according to the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes endorsed by the Statistical Commission and, where appropriate, to the extent possible, involve civil society, academia, victims' representatives and relevant international organizations. Resolution 70/176 contains stronger language in relation to data collection. In it, the Assembly requested UNODC to prepare an analytical study on the gender-related killing of women and girls at the global level, containing disaggregated data, including from relevant stakeholders, on the phenomenon to illustrate its different forms and patterns.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2016
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 34
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