This report critiques carceral and punitive measures and criminalisation to address gender-based violence, especially in the context of marginalised communities of the global South. It advocates for non-punitive approaches to gender-based violence, such as structural transformation. Part of the problem with the logic of carcerality or even the logic of punitivism is that it individualises the act of causing and being the recipient of harm, and extracts the acts from the social context, in which the violence was not only made possible but often supported.