A/HRC/32/42 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, 13

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