Feminicide/Femicide in Latin America ¡No more killings of women! Break the silence, stop impunity, demand international responsibility

Even if symbolically known for cases in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, feminicide or the murder of women for gender reasons is a global problem. The continuous increase of femicide is furthered by the failure of the states mechanisms to prevent, investigate, prosecute and punish the crimes. The European Union (EU) and LA have a wide range of instruments to act together against femicide - nevertheless, to eliminate violence against women and impunity on the grassroots level depends on the political will of each state to develop a strategic approach and make use of the instruments. Will the Spanish presidency and the EU have sufficient political decisiveness to bring this topic on the agenda and to the Conclusions of the EU-LA and Caribbean Summit on May 17/18, 2010? If so, how to make better use of the EU-LAC bilateral and regional relations to promote the necessary legislative and cultural changes, improve the judicial mechanisms and procedures to end the impunity and eradicate feminicides? Can the 2009 Inter-American Court for Human Rights sentence of the trial Campo Algodonero Vs. Mexico enhance the political will?

To learn more, please see the report of the II. Conference, the summary of the Strategy Meeting and the Recommendations to the EU as well as to the Latin American governments on our webpage in both, English and Spanish: www.boell.eu/web/116-578.html.

Speakers (among others):

- Raül Romeva i Rueda: Member of the European
  Parliament
- Jaime Hermida: Head of Department, Human Rights
  Office and Cooperation, Spain
- Rashida Manjoo: UN Special Rapporteur on violence
  against women, its causes and consequences
- Rita Laura Segato: Lawyer, Consultant for
   UNICEF/Brasil, Member of the Directorate of the
   Brasilian NGO AGENDE
- Andrea Medina Rosas: Lawyer, CLADEM (Comité
   Latinoamericano y del Caribe para la Defensa de los
   Derechos de la Mujer)
- Nava San Miguel : Expert in Gender and
   Development at the General Directorate for
   Planification and Evaluationof Development Politics,
   SECI (Secretaría de Estado de Cooperación
   Internacional)

The conference will be held in Spanish and there will be translation in English.

For more info please contact Patricia Jimenez jimenez@boell.eu or Carmen Pellicer genero3@acsur.org.