Description

The UNiTE by 2030 to End Violence against Women campaign of the Secretary General of the United Nations, which has been underway since 2008, aims to prevent and eliminate gender-based violence against women and girls worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO, 2021) estimates that 31% of women aged 15–49 have experienced violence at the hands of an intimate partner and sexual violence inflicted by others. This multi-stakeholder campaign is part of the United Nations system’s efforts to support Latin American and Caribbean States in fulfilling their due diligence obligation to prevent, investigate, and punish gender-based violence against women (CEDAW, 2010), as well as to ensure “restitution, reparations, or other just and effective remedies” (OAS, 1994).

Table of contents

A. The obligation of States to prevent femicidal violence continues to be a challenge in the region .-- B. In most Latin American countries femicide rates have varied little in recent years .-- C. Femicides, feminicides or gender-related killings of women in Latin America .-- D. Numbers and rates of femicide, feminicide or gender-related killings of women in the Caribbean .-- E. Production and management of data on feminicide, femicide or killings of women in Latin America .-- F. Notable practices in the production of official femicide data .-- G. Femicidal violence can be prevented with robust and forceful state responses .-- H. Moving towards a care society requires transforming discriminatory, violent and patriarchal cultural patterns.