Skip to main content
22/11/2024 | Document
Violence
Sexual and reproductive health

Bulletin Femicidal violence in figures. Latin America and the Caribbean - No 3. Urgent action to prevent and eliminate femicides

In 2023, at least 11 women were murdered every day for gender reasons in Latin America and the Caribbean. This number shows that, 30 years after the Beijing Declaration of Action and Platform and the Belém do Pará Convention and the regulatory advances developed by countries, feminicide is still present in the region and is the extreme expression of patriarchal and violent patterns. The document collects the latest data reported by official bodies to the Gender Equality Observatory of Latin America and the Caribbean (OIG) and calls for action for states to urgently redouble their efforts to comply with their duty of due diligence in preventing gender-based violence and to act with a comprehensive perspective on the causes and consequenes linked to the persistence of gender-based violence.

Bulletin No. 3 on feminicidal violence presents the official statistics submitted by the region’s countries to the Gender Equality Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean on cases of femicides, feminicides and gender-related killings of women reported in 2023. This bulletin is part of the UNiTE by 2030 to End Violence against Women campaign of the Secretary General of the United Nations, aimed at preventing and eliminating gender-based violence against women and girls worldwide. The campaign calls on governments, civil society organizations, women’s organizations, youth, the private sector, the media and the entire United Nations system to join forces and tackle the global pandemic of violence against women and girls.