Global Meeting on Measuring Femicide and Other Forms of Violence Against Women and Girls
The Global Meeting on Measuring Femicide and Other Forms of Violence Against Women and Girls was held from 15 to 17 July 2025 in Vienna. The meeting was jointly organized by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women).
The event brought together national stakeholders from countries that started implementation of the the statistical framework for measuring the gender-related killing of women and girls, as well as those that had an interest in doing so. The goal was to foster knowledge sharing, strengthen capacities, and promote effective implementation of the statistical framework.
Objectives:
Specifically, the meeting aimed to:
- Assess progress made by countries in implementing the statistical framework.
- Share lessons learned and best practices.
- Discuss the benefits and challenges of the statistical framework and explore potential improvements.
- Provide inputs to the development of an implementation guide for the statistical framework.
- Exchange insights on measuring other forms of gender-based violence.
Meeting report:
Global Meeting on Measuring Femicide and Other Forms of Violence Against Women and Girls
Presentations:
Session 1: Understanding the statistical framework for measuring the gender-related killing of women and girls and its implementation
Session 2: National implementation – Advocacy and engagement with stakeholders, data sources and national definitions
Session 3: Femicide data sources – Beyond crime statistics
Session 4: National implementation – Data collection and disaggregating variables
Session 5: Measuring femicide as part of the continuum of violence against women
Session 6: National implementation – Analysis, publication and use
Session 7: Data use – evidence-based policies and programmes to prevent femicide
Session 8: Global data on femicide
Session 9: Next steps for the implementation of the statistical framework: areas of improvements and implementation guide
