Event Report “Gender Related Murder of Women” in Latin America: A pressing problem which needs to be tackled now!
LA countries have made different efforts to fight against feminicide. Some have reformed their criminal laws to include feminicide as a specific crime and increase the penalty for such murders. Some have initiated preventive programmes to take into account the gender discrimination that cause such crimes or action plans to tackle the problem in a more holistic way. Parallel to this, the European Parliament, the Council and the EU External Action Service have expressed their political willingness to support LA countries to fight against feminicide. Moreover, the EU has developed some instruments to try to implement this willingness but despite the progress that has been made, the remaining challenges are huge and the situation on the ground is pressing.
What are Rashida Manjoo’s assessments and recommendations about the situation in LA? How effective are the EU instruments such as the EU Guidelines on VaW and Girls, the EIDHR, the political and Human Rights dialogues as well as the bilateral- regional cooperation? And what are the EU challenges? How could the EU support to the LA countries to make eradication of VaW be more effective? Especially in those countries where the implementation of the due diligence obligations by the State is week? Here the full Event Report
"The focus of my report to the Human Rights Council has been dedicated to the issue of gender-related killings of women. It is a global problem with differing manifestations and forms. Terms such as femicide, feminicide, honour killings, crimes of passion, and so on, have been used to define such killings." Continue to read the full Statement