Operations
Palestinian Territory - honor killings

#WeAreIsraa: Outrage as Palestinian woman 'tortured to death' in honour killing | The New Arab

31/08/2019 — News
Israa Ghrayeb, a 21-year-old Palestinian from Bethlehem, was reportedly beaten to death by her brother because she posted a selfie with her partner a day before they were due to get engaged. As a response, activists from all around the world are calling for justice. 
France - femicide

Femicide: The murders giving Europe a wake-up call | BBC

07/09/2019 — News
After the disfigured body of a woman was found in the south of France on September 1st, the French government announced a raft of measures to protect women from domestic violence. French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced €5m (£4.5m) to help fight femicide. The picture...
South Africa - femicide

Femicide protests rock WEF Africa conference in South Africa | Africa News

05/09/2019 — News
Students, men and women demonstrated against South Africa’s “femicide epidemic” as the World Economic Forum on Africa kicked off in Cape Town, amid growing alarm over gender violence in the country.
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.
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...
Mexico - femicide

Increasing femicide rates in Mexico | The Guardian

14/12/2017 — News
Of more than 50,000 killings of women since 1985, nearly a third took place in last six years (2001 - 2017), official report says, issued by Mexico’s interior department, the country’s National Women’s Institute and the UN Women agency