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Latin America and the Caribbean - femicide

Femicide Is On the Rise and Hidden in Plain View | NP Quarterly

07/12/2018 — News
Article on Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad and the link between the migrant caravan in Latin America and the dramatic rise of femicide in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador
  • Honduras
  • Guatemala
  • El Salvador
  • Iraq
  • femicide
  • ...
United Kingdom - data / data collection efforts

The UK Femicide Census: 2017 Findings | Women's Aid UK

18/12/2018 — Research, Analysis, Report, Study
This third report by the UK Femicide Census looks at 139 women who were killed by a man or where a man is the principal perpetrator/suspect in the UK in 2017.
  • femicide
  • census
  • UK
  • statistics
  • cases
  • maps
    • ...
South Africa - femicide

South African Summit on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide | Daily Maverick

01/11/2018 — News
Report about the National Summit on Gender-based Violence and Femicide in Centurion, South Africa, in early November. Civil society representatives directly addressed President Cyril Ramaphosa with with 24 demands. The stats of femicide last year in the 2017/18 financial year, according to the...
  • femicide
  • South Africa
  • Summit
  • national statistics
  • ...
Global - online violence

Femicide Volume 11: Call for submissions

05/12/2018 — News
The Femicide Team of the ACUNS Vienna Liaison Office is preparing its next volume in the FEMICIDE publication series on the topic of "Cyber Crimes Against Women and Girls”. Attached please find our call for submissions. Deadline: February 25, 2019
  • ACUNS
  • femicide volume
  • online violence
  • cyber crime
    • ...
Global - data / data collection efforts

What data do we have on femicide? Editorial Team

29/11/2018 — Official Data, Facts, Statistics
The key question that we all seek to answer is: How many women and girls are getting killed because of their gender -- also: why, by whom, and where? There are limitations to the efforts to collect comparable, reliable, gender-disaggregated data for each country or region in the world. We would...
  • data
  • data collection
  • statistics
  • UNODC
  • global studies...
Global - femicide

Femicide Volume 9: Femicide, State Accountability and Punishment | ACUNS Vienna

01/05/2018 — Research, Analysis, Report, Study
This volume of our Femicide publication series deals with state and international responsibility.
  • state accountability
  • femicide
  • government
  • responsibility
    • ...
Global - femicide

Linguistic Cracks in the use of the term femicide | Oxford Human Rights Hub

24/06/2016 — Femicide Definitions
In this article, the author explains how the terms femicide and feminicide have developed along different lines, why the Western notion of femicide tends to overlook the cause and reason of a women's death, and argues for a narrower understanding.
  • femicide
  • feminicide
  • language
  • definition
  • understanding...
Global - femicide

Understanding Femicide | WHO

01/01/2012 — Femicide Definitions
This 2012 information sheet on femicide, including a definition and an overview of the different types of femicide, is part of a series produced by WHO and PAHO to review the evidence base on aspects of violence against women.
  • WHO
  • definition
  • femicide
  • types of femicide
  • ...
Global - data / data collection efforts

2018 Study on Global Homicide: Gender-related killings of women and girls | UNODC

25/11/2018 — Landmark Document
This landmark study, released for the 2018 International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, examines available homicide data to analyse the gender-related killing of women and girls, with a specific focus on intimate partner and family-related homicide and how this relates to the...
  • UNODC
  • femicide
  • study
  • global data
  • statistics
  • data...
Germany - intimate-partner violence

Official 2017 statistics on intimate partner violence in Germany | BKA

20/11/2018 — Research, Analysis, Report, Study
This BKA report (in German) provides recent statistics on all forms of intimate-partner violence in Germany. In 2017, 138.893 people suffered from violence by their intimate partner, and 147 women died from it.
  • intimate-partner violence
  • Germany
  • statistics
  • BKA
  • femicide...
Austria - online violence

Panel discussion on cyber crime against women and girls on November 26, 2018 | ACUNS Vienna

26/11/2018 — News
The purpose of this event is to expose the social and psychological damage and long-term effects that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) facilitated violence against women inflict upon its victims, including online harassment by strangers and ex-boyfriends, cyber-bullying, revenge-...
  • online violence
  • ICT-facilitated violence
  • cyber crime
  • ACUNS Vienna...
Global - slavery

Femicide Volume 10: Contemporary Forms of Enslavement of Women & Girls | ACUNS Vienna

01/11/2018 — Research, Analysis, Report, Study
International organisations, NGOs and independent researchers helped produce this awareness-raising publication on modern-day enslavement of women and girls, a practice that is still commonplace in too many parts of this world.
  • ACUNS
  • femicide volume
  • femicide
  • slavery
  • modern...
Global - online violence

2018 Report on online violence by UN Special Rapporteur on VAW | UN OHCHR

14/06/2018 — Research, Analysis, Report, Study
 The UN Special Rapporteur on VAW, Dubravka Šimonović, analyses online violence and violence facilitated by information and communications technology (ICT) against women and girls from a human rights perspective. Report, as presented to the Human Rights Council, covers key definitions,...
  • online violence
  • VAW
  • cyber crime
  • cyber violence
    • ...
Mexico - femicide

When Justice is not Fair | Equis Mexico

— Research, Analysis, Report, Study
In this blog entry (in Spanish), the feminist, human rights organization, reflects upon Mariana Lima's sentence. They are working on a specific methodology to analyze sentences in Mexico that includes a gender perspective
  • analysis
  • Mariana Lima
  • case
  • Mexico
Mexico - femicide

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights 2003 report on Ciudad Juarez

07/03/2003 — Research, Analysis, Report, Study
IACHR report about the right of women in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico to be free from violence and discrimination, including recommendations to assist the Mexican State in amplifying its efforts to respect and ensure this right.
  • IACHR
  • Ciudad Juarez
  • femicide
  • VAW
  • violence against women...
Latin America and the Caribbean - VAW

Ending Violence Against Women in Latin America: Feminist Norm Setting in a Multilevel Context

23/03/2016 — Research, Analysis, Report, Study
This paper seeks to contribute to a more dynamic understanding of norm diffusion by examining the processes of multilevel norm setting to end VAW in Latin America.
  • VAW
  • violence against women
  • feminist theory
  • norm setting
  • ...
Global - gender equality

Empowering Women and Girls When Tackling Drugs and Crime | UNODC

01/03/2018 — Research, Analysis, Report, Study
The present Strategy for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (2018-2021) establishes the first institutional framework on gender equality for the United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
  • gender equality
  • empowerment
  • women
  • girls
  • UNODC...
Brazil - femicide

Femicide: Narratives of Gender Crimes in Brazil | University Rio Grande do Sul

01/02/2010 — Research, Analysis, Report, Study
Femicides are violent deaths of women resulting from power struggles between men and women. This was a qualitative study that used the tool of narratives to analyze police investigations of female homicides in Porto Alegre, in the years from 2006 to 2010.
  • Brazil
  • femicide
  • cases
  • narratives
  • deaths
  • research...
Italy - data / data collection efforts

Femicide in Italy | Casa delle donne

01/11/2016 — Research, Analysis, Report, Study
The report (in Italian language) offers an insight into the prevalence of femicide in Italy. Detailed statistics are presented on the number of women killed in Italy between 2005 and 2016. According to the data explored in the report, a total of 1395 women have been killed.
  • Italy
  • femicide
  • data
  • statistics
  • 2016
    • ...
Mexico - jurisdiction

Proposals for Analysis and Monitoring of the IACHR's "Cotton Field" Case Sentence | Heinrich Böll Stiftung

01/12/2013 — Jurisprudence
The objective of this publication is to aid closer understanding of the contents and the monitoring of the Cotton Case judgement. Points and proposals that seek to facilitate analysis and debate of the sentence are highlighted.
  • Mexico
  • cotton case
  • ruling
  • prosecution
  • discrimination...
Mexico - data / data collection efforts

Femicide in Mexico Has More Than Doubled Since 2007 | Global Citizen

14/12/2017 — Research, Analysis, Report, Study
A recent report from Mexico’s interior department, the National Women’s Institute, and UN Women reveals that violence against women is nearly as high as it was at its peak in 2012 and more than twice as high as it was in 2007.
  • femicide
  • Mexico
  • data
  • statistics
  • government
  • UN...
Latin America and the Caribbean - femicide

5 Countries in Latin America Where Femicide Is At Its Worst | Elite Daily

19/06/2015 — Research, Analysis, Report, Study
This report provides an overview of femicide in 5 Latin American countries.
  • femicide
  • Latin America
  • definition
  • statistics
  • ...
Global - femicide

UNGA Resolution 68/191 (2014) on Taking Action against Gender-related Killing of Women and Girls

11/02/2014 — Landmark Document
In this resolution member states were invited to provide UNODC with information related to best practices and other relevant information related to the investigation and prosecution of gender-related killing of women and girls.
  • femicide
  • resolution
  • General Assembly
  • UNGA
  • best practices...
Global - human rights

Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action

15/09/1995 — Landmark Document
The Platform for Action imagines a world where each woman and girl can exercise her freedoms and choices, and realize all her rights, such as to live free from violence, to go to school, to participate in decisions and to earn equal pay for equal work.
  • Beijing Declaration
  • Platform for Action
  • VAW
  • violence against women...