(hereinafter “the ESCR Committee”), with the former calling attention to the high rate of reported cases that had not resulted in the “arrests or prosecution of those responsible.”199 145. In 2003, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women expressed concern at the statistics on the cases of homicides of women, and at the available information indicating that the agencies and authorities that received reports generally rejected the ones involving threats or psychological violence.200 For its part, the United Nations Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women expressed concern in 2006 because Venezuela did not have “a centralized system to collect data on violence against women.”201 146. Likewise, in its 2009 report entitled Democracy and Human Rights in Venezuela, the IACHR found that the laws and policies put in place by the State on the issue had not succeeded at guaranteeing the rights of the women who continued to be victims of violence in Venezuela.202 Among other issues, the Commission highlighted the State’s failure to submit updated statistics on violence against women and domestic violence, which made it impossible for the Commission to properly assess whether the laws were effectively being applied by the authorities or whether the new programs were having any real effect on the validity of the right of women to a life free from violence.203 The IACHR also took into account that, in contrast with the limited statistics available from the government, organizations such as the Observatorio Venezolano de los Derechos de las Mujeres (Venezuelan Observatory on the Rights of Women) reported in 2007 that in Venezuela, around 100 cases involving gender-based violence took place every day. The Commission has also found that in recent years, and according to information received during public hearings, the situation of violence against women is not limited to “domestic” settings, but rather the number of homicides of women in Venezuela has increased.204 147. In the same 2009 report on Venezuela, the Commission found a pattern of impunity in cases of violence against women. The IACHR found it particularly concerning that in more than 98% of cases 199 United Nations Human Rights Committee. Concluding Observations on Venezuela. CCPR/CO/71/VEN. April 26, 2001. Available at: http://docstore.ohchr.org/SelfServices/FilesHandler.ashx?enc=6QkG1d%2fPPRiCAqhKb7yhsmq1D%2b4Wvg6LhA1iuk%2bHo%2bWYk prGindOLf6iDvgpobWKr%2f6GLaB8Qgc4pwS0z5Wc4Y54f4kseh1%2f36lvOW10hQqZSBUWZwpxK2z3jvtxzvag; United Nations Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. Concluding observations on Venezuela. E/C.12/1/Add.56. May 21, 2001. Available at: http://docstore.ohchr.org/SelfServices/FilesHandler.ashx?enc=4slQ6QSmlBEDzFEovLCuWzVCXkRUT2pEFOZi2eiiYl61j9WtkulkSCOVxC SObstewbp9M8KuAXXazI13GA0XehfWZ64wP35GwYRqdCmIbn%2b75Xwb889JcqT0%2fUOuWnIf 200 United Nations Economic and Social Council Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Radhika Coomaraswamy, for the period between 1994 and 2003. E/CN.4/2003/75/Add.1. February 27, 2003. Available at: http://www.un.org/Docs/journal/asp/ws.asp?m=E/CN.4/2003/75/Add.1 201 Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Concluding observations of the Committee on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. CEDAW/C/VEN/CO/6. January 31, 2006. Available at: http://www.un.org/Docs/journal/asp/ws.asp?m=CEDAW/C/VEN/CO/6 202 IACHR, Democracy and Human Rights in Venezuela. OEA/SER.L/V/II. Doc. 54. December 30, 2009, para. 915. Available at: https://www.cidh.oas.org/countryrep/Venezuela2009eng/VE09.TOC.eng.htm 203 Based on the information provided by the State, the Commission found that for the year 2002, the Scientific, Criminal, and Forensic Investigations Unit had processed 8,411 cases of violence against women; the 0-800Mujeres hotline received 3,119 calls reporting different forms of violence (most of them acts of physical violence against a woman); and the Civil Police Forces of the Capital District responded to 30,671 reports of different forms of domestic violence. Also, without indicating the time frame, the State reported that the Violence against Women Tribunals had received 66,000 complaints. IACHR, Democracy and Human Rights in Venezuela. OEA/SER.L/V/II. Doc. 54. December 30, 2009, para. 938-939, 946. Available at: https://www.cidh.oas.org/countryrep/Venezuela2009eng/VE09.TOC.eng.htm 204 See: IACHR, Democracy and Human Rights in Venezuela. OEA/SER.L/V/II. Doc. 54. December 30, 2009, para. 943. Available at: http://www.oas.org/en/iachr/docs/annual/2013/TOC.asp; IACHR, Annual Report 2013. Chapter IV on Venezuela, para. 716; and IACHR, Annual Report 2014. Chapter IV on Venezuela, para. 632. Available at: http://www.oas.org/en/iachr/docs/annual/2014/TOC.asp