The United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, approved, in May 2023, the Background Paper on Feminicide Review Committees.
This background paper was prepared for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) by Patsilí Toledo Vasquez, International Consultant and Adjunct Professor of Gender and the Criminal Justice System, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, and revised by Sven Pfeiffer (Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer, Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Section, UNODC) under the general supervision of Claudia Baroni (Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer, Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Section, UNODC). David Rausis and Martijn Kind (Research and Trend Analysis Unit, UNODC) provided useful comments.
Experts from a number of countries contributed to the Paper: Leila Linhares Barsted, Marcela Arroyave, Lyndal Bugeja, Alicia Candia, June Castello, Khatidja Chantler, Fiona Cram, Myrna Dawson, Tamar Dekanosidze, Pauline Gulliver, Nahla Haidar, Gabrielle Hosein, Mariela Labozzeta, Moa Mannheimer, Mónica Maureira, Luz Patricia Mejía, María Cristina Mendonça, Frank Mullane, Johanna Nelles, Paola Di Nicola, Annamaria Picozzi, Ivonne Sepúlveda, Rhoda Reddock, Soledad Rojas, Laia Rosich, James Rowlands, Sophio Rusetski, Eva Villarreal, and Neil Websdale (see pages 76).
Different members of the Gender Network of the Iberoamerican Association of Public Prosecutors (Asociación Iberoamericana de Ministérios Públicos, AIAMP) were also consulted.
The official version of the document is in English and can be accessed through this link
