A/HRC/35/30/Add.3 murdered.9 By the end of 2015, no one had been charged with their deaths. 10 In 2013, the Trans Murder Monitoring Project reported that 19 transgender people had been murdered. 11 13. The Special Rapporteur received information that the deaths of many women had been preceded by failures in the prevention system, such as inaction when urgent protection was requested, fragmented recording of incidents of domestic violence, the use of reconciliation mechanisms between victims and aggressors, inefficient enforcement and monitoring of the protection measures granted, lack of thoroughness in collecting and evaluating evidence, the presence of stereotypes or minimizing the seriousness of the facts.12 14. The Special Rapporteur welcomed the initiative of the Office of the National Ombudsman to establish a femicide observatory, as she had recommended in September 2016,13 to collect and publish data on femicide and to analyse cases of femicide in order to determine failures or gaps in protection with a view to improving legislation or its implementation. Considering the initiatives taken by several NGOs and the Government to collect and analyse femicide data, the Special Rapporteur encourages all of them to cooperate and harmonize the collection of data and analysis of cases. B. Violence against women, including domestic violence 15. The Special Rapporteur was concerned that there were no nationwide statistics on violence against women and domestic violence in Argentina. The Domestic Violence Office indicated that, in 2015, it had received 11,348 reports of domestic violence, 65 per cent of which involved women victims and 14 per cent, girl victims. 14 However, those numbers probably represented only a fraction of the actual amount of cases. According to non-governmental sources, 55.8 per cent of the female population in Buenos Aires had been subjected to psychological violence, 22.3 per cent to physical violence and 15 per cent to sexual violence by an intimate partner during their lifetime. 15 However, only 1 out of 10 victims had turned to a public institution to seek help. 16 16. The Domestic Violence Office stated that, of the 11,348 cases registered in 2015, 99 per cent had been referred to the civil justice system and 74 per cent to the criminal justice system. No data were available on how many of those proceedings had resulted in prosecutions and convictions. According to the Women’s Office, charges had been brought against 236 people in respect of the 235 femicides registered in 2015 but, by the end of 2015, there had only been 7 convictions, while 29 per cent of the cases were at the trial stage, 51 per cent remained at the investigation stage, 14 per cent had been terminated for procedural reasons and there were no acquittals. 17 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Amnesty International, “Argentina must investigate horrific wave of attacks against trans activists” (14 October 2015). Available at https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/10/argentina-mustinvestigate-horrific-wave-of-attacks-against-trans-activists/. Amnesty International, “Argentina 2016/2017”. Available at https://www.amnesty.org/en/ countries/americas/argentina/report-argentina/. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), “Social Institutions and Gender Index: Argentina”. Available at www.genderindex.org/sites/default/files/datasheets/AR.pdf. Argentina, Public Defence Office of the Nation and Amnesty International, “Femicidio y Debida Diligencia: Estándares internacionales y practicas locales” (2015). Available at www.mpd.gov.ar/pdf/ publicaciones/biblioteca/Libro%20 femicidio%20Final%20con%20tapa%20e%20isbn.pdf. See A/71/398, para. 82 (c). Argentina, Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, Registro Nacional de Femicidios de la Justicia Argentina, 2015. Latin American Justice and Gender Team, “Las cifras de la violencia” (Buenos Aires). Available from www.ela.org.ar/a2/index.cfm?fuseaction=MUESTRA&codcontenido=2463&plcontampl= 6&aplicacion=app187&cnl=14&opc=9. Ibid. Argentina, Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, Registro Nacional de Femicidios de la Justicia Argentina, 2015, pp. 7-8. 5