The relevance of victimization surveys to measure gender-related killings of women and girls

• In Event: Victimization and Crime Statistics: Experiences on measuring VAW.

Abstract

This presentation will focus on the role and importance of crime victimization surveys for measuring Gender-related killings of women and girls (femicide/feminicide), because this is the most extreme and brutal manifestation of violence against women and they affect all regions and countries worldwide. However, unlike for other forms of violence against women, there was until recently no global or regional standardized statistical approach to define and produce relevant metrics on such killings of women and girls.

Author

• Maurice Dunaiski, UNODC