Analysis

Violence against women and girls and its most extreme expression, femicide, feminicide or violent deaths of women due to gender reasons (according to the denomination of each country), occurs systematically and persistently in the region; it knows no borders, affects women and girls of all ages and occurs in all spaces, from the domestic sphere to public spaces. The indicator of femicide, feminicide or homicides aggravated by gender reasons is reported by each country and published by the Gender Equality Observatory since 2009. In 2017 it was approved as a complementary regional indicator of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, to follow up on the goal of eliminating extreme violence experienced by women and girls in the region and the response of States in relation to the implementation of public policies for its prevention.