A/71/398 violence. Nevertheless, these sources have their limitations, as noted by the Secretary-General (see ibid.). 37. UNODC is leading global efforts to improve and compare crime and criminal justice data. Its report, entitled “Global study on homicide 2013”, 9 contains a section on interpersonal homicide. The approach of UNODC is that, give n the numerous challenges of comprehensively measuring gender -related violence, exploring intimate partner and family-related homicide is one way of gaining a clearer understanding of the killing of women because of gender motives. 10 38. The point of departure of UNODC in relation to data on gender-related killings is the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes, 11 endorsed by the Statistical Commission in March 2015 and the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in May 2016. The latter entity established an international statistical standard for data collection, drawn both from administrative records and survey-generated data. The classification adopted does not specify crimes but rather focuses on the motivation behind the crime. In other words, the crime classification framework is based on behavioural descriptions instead of legal codes. Femicide therefore falls under the classification of intentional homicide, namely, unlawful death inflicted upon a person with the intent to cause death or serious injury. 12 Three classification criteria are applied once a particular act of killing is to be classified, which further characterize the intentional homicide and can be used to define it in more detail. 13 These criteria are the situational context, the relationship between victim and perpetrator and the mechanism of killing. Of importance for femicide is that interpersonal homicide, namely, homicide committed by an intimate partner or family member, including a former partner, spouse or family member, other interpersonal homicide (i.e., relating to neighbour or property disputes, revenge related killings or brawls or mass shootings) and homicide relating to other criminal activities and sociopolitical homicides, fall under the crite rion of situational context. Within the additional disaggregation of a relationship between the victim and perpetrator, the intimate partner of a family member and other perpetrators known to the victim and perpetrators unknown to the victim are recorded. Lastly, within the disaggregation of “mechanism of killing”, the type of weapon or other means used is recorded. 39. The Special Rapporteur notes that UNODC has embarked, as part of its work to build the evidence base, on the strengthening of United Natio ns data-collection systems, the development of standards for comparative justice statistics and the development of the “global picture” of gender-related killing. She also notes that UNODC has initiated a process to establish a methodological approach to d efine each crime classification, including interpersonal homicide, and that discussions in that regard already began at the first global meeting of the focal points of the United Nations Survey of Crime Trends, Operations of Criminal Justice Systems and Cr ime Prevention Strategies, in May 2016. __________________ 9 10 11 12 13 14/24 See UNODC, “Global study on homicide 2013: trends, contexts, data”, p. 49. Ibid.”, p. 52. See UNODC, “International classification of crime for statistical purposes: version 1.0” (March 2015). Available from www.unodc.org/documents/data -and-analysis/statistics/crime/ICCS/ ICCS_final-2015-March12_FINAL.pdf. Ibid., p. 33. Ibid., tables III-V. 16-16456