Actions to End Femicide (2015)
This infographic provides information about data and documentation, prevention, awareness, and legislative and policy reform actions that can be used to help end femicide.View Infographic(PDF)
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Data and Documentation:
- Strengthen data collection and analysis to generate an effective evidence base that can inform
programs and policy. - Where data on femicide is less available, raise awareness and perform advocacy work to encourage improved data collection.
- Train officials to improve documentation of femicide cases and surrounding circumstances.
- Increase research on violence against women prevention and intervention.
Prevention:
- Advocate for human rights for all women and girls.
- Enhance availability and access to services offering protection to women and girls.
- Improve early detection of severe intimate partner violence through appropriate assessment, safety planning, and risk management training to reduce the risk of femicide and other harm.
- Implement programs to break intergenerational cycles of violence and abuse.
- Support Aboriginal communities in developing community safety plans and enhance the economic independence of Aboriginal women.
Awareness:
- Raise awareness about violence against women (VAW) and all forms of femicide.
- Raise awareness about the attitudes and motivations underlying VAW, including femicide.
- Develop public education campaigns to empower women and girls and to engage men and boys in preventing VAW.
- Engage in activist efforts to protest every time a women or girl is murdered.
- Increase awareness of risk factors for victimization and perpetration of all forms of femicide.
Legislative and policy Reform:
- Implement policies and programs aimed at improving gender equality in education, government, labour force participation, and earnings Chronic disease and pain
- Advocate for an international zero tolerance policy on violence against women and girls.
- Implement policies increasing support and reparation for woman/girl survivors of violence.
- Advocate for the implementation of legislation to investigate and adequately prosecute femicide.
