The Nationwide Programme for the Prevention of Domestic Violence is aimed at proposing and promoting measures and public policies that can bring a gender perspective to the detection, prevention and punishment of this offence, as well as to efforts to gain a fuller understanding of this social problem. The programme also focuses on promoting mutual respect and equal rights and opportunities for women and men. Recent progress is reflected in the increased scope and coordination of Government services and ministries with advances in international and national law and improved victim assistance and protection. More information is also now available thanks to increased research, better record-keeping, greater awareness of the problem of femicide and women's greater knowledge of their rights.
CEDAW/C/CHL/5-6, para. 27.
