Discussions on Ending Gender Related Killings of Women and Girls in Asia and the Pacific

Seoul, Republic of Korea. September 27, 2023.

The UNODC-INEGI Center of Excellence attended the International Conference on Ending Gender Related Killings of Women and Girls organized by the UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, the UN Women Centre of Excellence for Gender Equality, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and the UNODC-KOSTAT Centre of Excellence for Statistics on Crime and Criminal Justice in Seoul, Korea.

The Conference was aimed at discussing the challenges of, and good practices in, implementing and evaluating relevant policy and legal measures to address gender-related killings of women and girls, particularly with the recent adoption of the Statistical Framework for Measuring the Gender-Related Killings of Women and Girls.

The UNODC-INEGI Center of Excellence shared regional experiences from Latin America and the Caribbean on strengthening institutional capacities, data availability and exchanging knowledge and best practices for improving data collection, analysis and use of data on gender-related killing of women and girls. Along with other speakers, the discussion versed on the most relevant experiences of mechanisms for monitoring femicide, the systems implemented by countries and international organizations to monitor gender-based violence, as well as the methods used to analyze trends and monitor femicide cases.

Participants to the Conference agreed on the significance of adopting this Statistical Framework for improving the accuracy and consistency of femicide data worldwide.

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