The member States and associate members of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), meeting at the sixteenth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean held in Mexico City from 12 to 15 August 2025, adopted the Tlatelolco Commitment (ECLAC, 2025b), which established a decade of action, 2025–2035, in Latin America and the Caribbean to accelerate achievement of substantive gender equality and the care society. Under this regional agreement, which is part of the Regional Gender Agenda of compacts adopted by ECLAC member States since 1977, governments committed to “advance the adoption and implementation of laws and policies, comprehensive and multisectoral action plans ... at the different levels of the State to prevent, address, punish and eliminate all forms of gender-based violence and discrimination against women, adolescents and girls in all their diversity, in all forms and spheres, including ... the most extreme expression of violence, i.e. feminicide, femicide or gender-related violent deaths of women, and harmful practices such as female genital mutilation, child, early and forced marriage and early unions” (ECLAC, 2025b, para. 14). Within this framework, the availability of comprehensive services to prevent and address all forms of violence against women is indispensable to the creation of enabling conditions for the autonomy of women, adolescents and girls in all their diversity (ECLAC, 2025b, para. 12).