A/71/398 C. Good practices on femicides and data collection 1. Governmental and non-governmental models for femicide reviews 53. The Special Rapporteur wishes to acknowledge some laudable initiatives by Governments and civil society actors that she encountered while preparing the present report. These initiatives serve as good practices and models for the establishment of femicide reviews and observatories, help to understand the phenomenon of femicide, unpack its causal factors and collect data and can be used as a springboard for action. The initiatives described b elow are therefore not exhaustive. 54. The Domestic Violence Fatality Review collects data about all domestic violence-related homicides and suicide deaths in Washington State, United States of America. 15 Community review teams examine the events leading up to these deaths and take an in-depth look at how community systems responded to domestic violence. They identify gaps in laws, policy, practice, training and resources and, on that basis, make policy recommendations to strengthen the community response t o domestic violence, increase safety and choices for survivors and their children, hold abusers accountable and prevent violence before it begins. In addition to in -depth case reviews, the project collects data on all domestic violence -related homicide and suicide deaths. Its definition of a domestic violence fatality is specific to intimate partner violence and includes homicides by any current or former intimate partner; friends, family, new partners or police officers killed by abusers in the context of intimate partner abuse; abusers killed by victims, police or someone intervening; and suicides of abusers following a domestic violence homicide or assault. The Review combines information about domestic violence fatalities with other state wide data sources, including death certificates, court records and census data, to produce a rich analysis on a wide range of issues. Examples of its research and data analysis include the connection between domestic violence history and suicide, the disproportionate rates of domestic violence homicide by race, domestic violence homicide victims’ past use of child support enforcement and pregnancy rates among victims killed by intimate partners. 55. The femicide census project in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 16 began by using social media and blogging and later developed into an advocacy tool for the country to gather statistics in a different manner. It reports on the perpetrators and victims equally and includes a wide range of information about women who have been killed by men. It has relied on support from the private sector for the establishment and maintenance of its website. Information found in the census was gathered initially from a set of names that had been collected since January 2012 and recorded in a blog entitled “Counting dead women”. 17 The author of that blog had searched the Internet for news of women who had been killed by men. 56. Those data had been gathered from publicly available sources, in particular media articles, and also included details of the perpetrators and the incident, including the date, names, police force jurisdiction, information about children, the recorded motive and the weapon used. Some of the data are verified, emanating __________________ 15 16 17 16-16456 See https://dvfatalityreview.org/washingtonstatedvfr/. See www.womensaid.org.uk/what-we-do/campaigning-and-influencing/femicide-census/. See https://kareningalasmith.com/counting-dead-women/. 17/24