[1]: 8:29 MESECVI is headquartered at the Executive Secretariat of the CIM in Washington, D.C.[3]: p.43, 45 According to Professor Rashida Manjoo and Professor Jackie Jones (2018), the Belém do Pará Convention has significantly contributed to making the 'Inter-American human rights system, while far from perfect, arguably the world's most well-developed and effective human rights system in the violence against women context.'

'[10]: p.163–4 For example, the Belém do Pará Convention was used alongside the American Convention on Human Rights when the Inter-American Court of Human Rights intervened in the Cotton Field femicides case, on requests from victims' relatives, who, motivated by the Mexican authorities' lack of response, filed a complaint against the Mexican state.

In its 2009 judgement, the Court found Mexico to be responsible for multiple rights violations, including the State obligations under the Belém do Pará Convention 'to use due diligence to respond to violence against women' according to Article 7, paragraphs b and c.[10]: p.160  The verdict caused Mexico to undertake some positive steps to comply with the Court's order.

[10]: p.160 Moreover, Manjoo and Jones criticised the fact that the United States and Canada had still not ratified the two Conventions, '[leaving] millions of women and girls without the protections afforded by these treaties.

'[10]: p.164  In conclusion, they argue that an improved version of the Belém do Pará Convention, with a better emphasis on state parties' immediate obligations, would be the best model for a worldwide treaty on violence against women, replacing the United Nations' non-binding 1993 Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (DEVAW), as long as there is a sustained campaign – preferably led by VAW survivors and their advocates – towards universal ratification by all states in the world.