The 6th Milestones of a Global Campaign for Violence Prevention Meeting was held at the Mexican Ministry for External Relations in Mexico City. The meeting was hosted by WHO and the Mexican Ministry of Health, with financial support from the latter and the California Wellness Foundation.

Under the theme "Towards measurable violence prevention targets" almost 300 experts from all over the world discussed progress in WHO´s Global Campaign for Violence Prevention and strategized the way ahead by:

• Presenting new data on homicide and on risk factors for interpersonal violence;
• Presenting new evidence on effective interventions to prevent interpersonal violence in developed and developing countries;
• Outlining what can be done to improve the capacity to measure violence prevention efforts;
• Agreeing on the need to consolidate efforts to strengthen the measurement of violence and violence prevention policies, programmes and laws;
• Calling for the establishment of a technical working group to inform the measurement of violence-related goals in the post-2015 development agenda.

The meeting was opened by the Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr José Antonio Meade Kuribreña; the Mexican Minister of Health, Dr Mercedes Juan López; and the WHO Representative for Mexico, Dr Maureen Birmingham.