Since the Federal Republic of Germany meanwhile holds the European negative record for femicides, the Femicide Observation Center Germany (FOCG) is working on these three goals: Research, Education, and Awareness. 

First successes are emerging. Based on a femicide database that maps more than 70 individual criteria, validated statements on gender-specific, German violence against women were published for the first time in 2020 by UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Dubravka Simonovic. These supplement the rudimentary reality picture of the PCS with a number of relevant findings: From the identification of so-called "red flags" to the gender aspect in the judiciary. Reliable data and the associated understanding of the nature and extent, or cause and effect, enable the sustainable containment of gender-based violence against girls and women in the long term.