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15/10/2013 | Note for equality

Note for Equality N° 6: Death of women at the hands of their partners persists in the region

“Gender-based violence is a form of discrimination that seriously inhibits women's ability to enjoy rights and freedoms on a basis of equality with men” (General Recommendation number 19 of the Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women).

How to make progress towards the eradication of violence against women?



●   Promote the creation of a comprehensive system of intervention which provides internal consistency to sector responses, operating under a strong political leadership and counts with adequate and continuous funding.

●   Improve data production, both on the basis of population surveys and through the systematization of administrative registers, unifying the registers.

●  Strategies to transform culture and the conditions wherein social relations are established and consolidated are required.

●   Improve the interventions of the judicial power through actions of training, monitoring and control actions, as well as integrating the interventions with public policies.

●   Guarantee access to justice and provide support during the legal process for victims of violence, the latter through the implementation of social policies

●   Articulate the actions of various organisms, bodies and follow-up mechanisms of the universal and regional human rights protection systems.

●   Develop and strengthen the judicial definition of femicide in legislation.

●   Support the realization and dissemination of empirical investigations regarding access to justice for women victims of violence.