A/HRC/32/42 concealment and underreporting of gender-related killings, including of women belonging to ethnic minorities, the proposal would provide crucial information for the development of effective strategies to address this serious human rights violation. 46. Each case of gender-related killing of women should be carefully analysed to identify any failure of protection, with a view to improving and developing further preventive measures. In the collection, analysis and publication of such data, States should cooperate with non-governmental organizations and independent human rights institutions working in the field, representatives of victims and other relevant international organizations and stakeholders. 47. In her report on gender-related killing of women and girls: promising practices, challenges and practical recommendations (A/HRC/20/16), the previous mandate holder noted different manifestations of gender-related killings of women, including as a result of intimate-partner violence, following accusations of sorcery or witchcraft, in the name of “honour”, in the context of armed conflict, dowry-related killings of women, and killings of aboriginal and indigenous women, among others. 48. The Special Rapporteur recalls General Assembly resolution 70/176 on action against gender-related killing of women and girls, in which the Assembly encouraged Member States to collect, disaggregate, analyse and report data on gender-related killing of women and girls and to ensure that appropriate punishment for perpetrators of genderrelated killings of women and girls are in place and are proportionate to the gravity of the offence. 49. The importance of statistics and data collection is broadly recognized in international human rights law, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the recommendations made by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, which provides a legal basis and practical guidance for the promotion and development of statistics, disaggregated by sex.9 In paragraph 24 (c) of its general recommendation No. 19, the Committee explicitly recognized the importance of statistical data to understand the situation of women, and recommended that States ensure that their national statistical services formulated their questionnaires in such a way that data could be disaggregated according to gender. It also recommended that States should encourage the compilation of statistics and research on the extent, causes and effects of violence, and on the effectiveness of measures to prevent and deal with violence. At the regional level, article 8 (h) of the Convention of Belém do Pará established the agreement by States to undertake progressively specific measures, including programmes, to ensure research and the gathering of statistics and other relevant information relating to the causes, consequences and frequency of violence against women. Article 11 of the Istanbul Convention established that States parties should undertake to collect disaggregated relevant statistical data on cases of all forms of violence. 50. While the collection of data is widely recognized under the international human rights framework, the establishment of a global “femicide watch” would bring a special emphasis to the analysis of these statistics and data as a catalyst for prevention and change. Given the shortcomings of certain national protection systems, the lack of proper risk assessment and the lack of quantitative and qualitative data, which are major barriers to effective prevention of gender-related killing of women, it would contribute to the prevention of preventable deaths of women. Where the situation in which femicides are committed is highlighted, it can stimulate more work across existing obligations, particularly with regard to addressing social attitudes that accept or normalize violence 9 14 See OHCHR, Human Rights Indicators: A Guide to Measurement and Implementation, 2012, p. 75.