Martha Alicia Tronco RosasInstituto Politécnico Nacional

The Violentómetro

Adaptations and reach

The Violentómetro has been reproduced and adapted in different countries and settings. This page brings together documented examples and records how each version acknowledges its origin.

The record provides access to the institutions, versions and sources. The material’s presence in these settings documents its circulation; on its own, it does not establish its effects on violence.

To learn about the IPN study, see the research on its origins (in Spanish). For reproduction or adaptation, see use, citation and permissions.

Versions by country and setting

Mexico

  • El Colegio de México

    n.d. · Credits the IPN unit for permission to use and distribute the material.

    Attribution: acknowledges the origin of the material. View source

  • Cátedra UNESCO de Derechos Humanos, UNAM

    2014 · Reproduces the material crediting the IPN unit.

    Attribution: acknowledges the origin of the material. View source

  • CUAED-CINIG, UNAM

    2026 · “Violentómetro Versión Integrada”, declared as based on the IPN instrument.

    Attribution: acknowledges the origin of the material. View source

  • Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional

    n.d. · Includes the source line crediting the IPN, 2009.

    Attribution: acknowledges the origin of the material. View source

  • Universidad Intercultural de Chiapas

    2023 · “Violentómetro Universitario”, with no credit at all.

    Attribution: omits the Mexican origin or attributes the material to another country. View source

Chile

  • Instituto Nacional de Derechos Humanos

    2017 · Institutional version with no mention of the IPN in the text.

    Attribution: omits the Mexican origin or attributes the material to another country. View source

Colombia

  • MinTIC y Universidad Central

    2015 · Version presented as a development based on the “original idea of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional of Mexico”.

    Attribution: acknowledges the origin of the material. View source

Spain

  • educagénero

    2018 · An adaptation by therapists in Andalusia. It is the source cited by the Spanish and French Wikipedias.

    Attribution: acknowledges the origin of the material. View source

France

  • Association nationale des études féministes

    2024 · Distributes the version for the scientific sector and credits its authorship.

    Attribution: acknowledges the origin of the material. View source

  • Centre Hubertine Auclert, Ville de Paris y Observatorio de Sena-Saint Denis

    2018-2023 · The French violentomètre, translated into thirteen languages, does not mention its Mexican origin.

    Attribution: omits the Mexican origin or attributes the material to another country. View source

France, Cameroon and Côte d’Ivoire

  • Feminists in Action

    n.d. · Adaptations by CARE Cameroon and Akwaba Mousso, the latter in Nouchi.

    Attribution: acknowledges the origin of the material. View source

Italy

  • Municipios italianos y Università dell'Aquila

    2017-2023 · First adopted in Gardone Val Trompia; later Rome, Brugherio, Sanremo, Grottammare and Milan.

    Attribution: acknowledges the origin of the material. View source

  • Comune di Cisterna di Latina

    n.d. · Attributes the instrument to France.

    Attribution: omits the Mexican origin or attributes the material to another country.

Portugal

  • Plataforma Já Marchavas

    2019 · Portuguese version with no credit.

    Attribution: omits the Mexican origin or attributes the material to another country. View source

Switzerland

  • Université de Genève, grupo G-RIRE

    2022-2024 · Two adaptations, one for the university community and one for the scientific sector, the latter with the L’Oréal Foundation.

    Attribution: acknowledges the origin of the material. View source

Uruguay

  • UNFPA, Intendencia de Montevideo y Udelar

    2023 · States that it is “based on earlier materials”, without naming the source.

    Attribution: omits the Mexican origin or attributes the material to another country. View source

Venezuela

  • UNFPA y Defensoría del Pueblo

    2019 · Institutional version with no mention of the IPN.

    Attribution: omits the Mexican origin or attributes the material to another country. View source

Languages

Within Mexico it has been translated into several Indigenous languages: Mixtec, Nahuatl in its three variants, Zapotec, Mazatec, Totonac, Mixe Popoluca, Hñähñu, Zoque Popoluca and Tepehua, among others. Beyond Spanish there are versions in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Basque, Danish, Catalan, German and Chinese. In 2023 the IPN and the Human Rights Commission of the State of Campeche presented an application in Maya.

This enumeration is the one given in “Violentómetro: instrumento que evidencia e incide en la atención de la violencia contra las mujeres”, Ciencias y Humanidades, no. 12, 2024.

Studies that analyse or adapt it