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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 - 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...
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...
Global - femicide

2015 International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS) | UNODC

01/01/2015 — Official Data, Facts, Statistics
  The International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS) provides a comprehensive framework for producing statistics on crime and criminal justice.
  • UNODC
  • classification
  • criminal statistics
  • statistics
  • ICCS...
Global - data / data collection efforts

2013 Global Study on Homicide | UNODC

01/01/2018 — Official Data, Facts, Statistics
The Global Study on Homicide 2013 seeks to shed light on the worst of crimes - the "unlawful death purposefully inflicted on a person by another person."
  • data
  • statistics
  • homicide
  • femicide
  • global study
  • ...
Global - femicide

What do we mean by femicide? | Editorial Team

01/01/2018 — Femicide Definitions
Trying to agree upon a global homogeneous definition of the killing of women and girls based on their gender is highly complex: its meaning varies according to the point of view, context, and discipline from which it is being examined, as well as its scope, content and implications rely on how it...
  • definition
  • femicide
  • categories of femicide
  • history
  • ...