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Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence and the
Committee of the Parties (see A/HRC/29/27).
41.
In 2010, the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) established the
ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and
Children. The two most important ASEAN documents on violence against women are the
ASEAN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women (2004) and the
Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women and the Elimination of
Violence Against Children in ASEAN (2013). In addition, in 2009, ASEAN established the
ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights, which has been considering
drafting several regional conventions, including on violence against women.
42.
In 2011, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation established the Independent
Permanent Human Rights Commission, which has identified women’s rights as a priority
area of its work. A working group has been established to develop ways and means for the
body to address women’s rights, including through providing advisory opinions. It has been
developing a mechanism to undertake studies and research on the situation of women’s
rights in the Member States of the Organization, and to provide technical cooperation and
awareness-raising.
43.
At the international level, despite the existence of international and regional norms
and standards on violence against women, there is a general lack of a holistic and
comprehensive approach to combat and prevent violence against women. There is a
fragmentation of and disconnection between the implementation of global agendas and
instruments, such as the Beijing Platform for Action, the Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Declaration on the Elimination of
Discrimination against Women and Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) and
subsequent related resolutions, and regional instruments and agendas on violence against
women and mechanisms in charge of monitoring their implementation, even though they all
envisage links with other instruments and institutions. At the national level, implementation
of these standards has generally been fragmented, and often without a coordinated or
comprehensive system to combat and prevent violence against women on the basis of a
solid legal and institutional framework.
44.
The mandate holder considers that the universal and full acceptance and
incorporation by States of both international and regional instruments are crucial for the
establishment and improvement of existing national legal frameworks on the elimination of
violence against women, including by the elimination of discriminatory family laws and
penal laws, also with regard to harmful practices that hinder the enjoyment by women and
girls of their rights.
IV. Thematic priorities
A.
Establishment of a “femicide watch”
45.
On 25 November 2015, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence
against Women, the Special Rapporteur called upon all States to establish a “femicide
watch”, or a “gender-related killing of women watch”. She proposed that data on the
number of femicides or cases of gender-related killings of women, disaggregated by age
and ethnicity of victims, and the sex of the perpetrators, and indicating the relationship
between the perpetrator and the victim or victims, be published every year, on 25
November, and that information concerning the prosecution and punishment of perpetrators
also be collected and published. Given the shortcomings of many national prevention
systems, the lack of reliable data and risk assessments, and consequent misidentification,
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