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Afghanistan - intimate-partner violence

Afghan TV presenter Mena Mangal shot in Kabul | RFERL

13/05/2019 — News
Afghan politicians and women's rights activists are demanding justice after a political adviser and former prominent TV presenter was murdered in broad daylight. According to her family, it was a case of intimate-partner violence.
  • Afghanistan
  • domestic violence
  • intimate-partner violence
  • femicide...
Turkey - femicide

Femicides in Turkey in 2018 | We Stop Femicide Platform

07/01/2019 — Studies, Analyses, Reports
In 2018, 440 women were murdered and 317 women were sexually assaulted by men, according to this report of the "We Stop Femicide Platform". Also, 1217 cases of child abuse were covered in the media and 26 children were killed
  • data
  • femicide
  • data collection
  • platform
  • Turkey
    • ...
Canada - misogynistic hate crime

Why misogynistic killings need a public label | Myrna Dawson

27/04/2018 — Studies, Analyses, Reports
The Toronto van attack started a public discourse in Canada about misogynistic hate crimes, as the killer was a member of an online misogynistic movement. Myrna Dawson clarifies the link between misogyny and femicide, and shows that it occurs regularly.
  • misogyny
  • hate crime
  • femicide
  • gender hate crime
    • ...
United Kingdom - misogynistic hate crime

UK Academic Studies on misogyny as a hate crime | Magistrates Assocation

09/07/2018 — Studies, Analyses, Reports
Evaluation report about a two-year project to treat misogyny as a hate crime in Nottingham, from the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University. Full report.
  • misogyny
  • hate crime
  • gender hate crime
  • evaluation
  • Report...
United Kingdom - misogynistic hate crime

Campaigners and MPs call for misogyny to be made a hate crime | The Guardian

14/01/2019 — News
In the UK, a coalition of campaign groups and MPs have called on the Metropolitan police commissioner to make misogyny a hate crime. Gender hate incidents were reportedly at least as common as any hate crime recorded by police: 67,000 such incidents last year, with 57,000 of them targeted at women...
  • misogyny
  • hate crime
  • UK
  • gender hate crime
  • gender
  • ...
Global - data / data collection efforts

Responses to UNSR VAW Call for Femicide Data since 2016 | UN OHCHR

01/01/2018 — Official Data, Facts, Statistics
In her report to the General Assembly A/71/398, of 23 September 2016 the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, it’s causes and consequences (UNSRVAW), Dubravka Simonovic, called for the prevention of femicide as well as the establishment of femicide watches and/or observatories on...
  • femicide
  • data
  • data collection
  • femicide watch
  • observatory...