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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...
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
  • ...
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
  • femicide
  • Mexico
  • Report
  • data
  • statistics
  • UN Women...
Argentina - femicide

EU-UN joined action to end femicide in Argentina | UN-EU Spotlight Initiative

22/03/2019 — News
European Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, Neven Mimica, launched the national programme for Argentina of the EU-UN Spotlight initiative to end violence against women and girls, with a focus on femicide. Argentina is the second country in Latin America to launch a country...
  • Argentina
  • national program
  • femicide
  • UN-EU Spotlight
  • ...
El Salvador - femicide

Inside El Salvador's femicide crisis | Elle UK

01/04/2019 — News
In El Salvador, a woman is murdered every 18 hours. In 2017, 468 femicides occurred, according to the Institute of Legal Medicine. In 2018, the official number is over 300 – and growing. The article highlighs individual cases and offers explanations such as the country's culture of misogyny.
  • El Salvador
  • femicide
  • cases
  • reporting
  • UNODC
  • ...
Global - femicide

47 women killed on one day around the world because of their gender | BBC News

25/11/2018 — News
On occasion of the November 25th International Day to Eliminate VAW, BBC Monitoring reported about women that died on one day in 2018. The original idea came from the BBC 100 Women: They wanted to find out more about the women behind the numbers and thus monitored press coverage of women killed by...
  • femicide
  • cases
  • reporting
  • media
  • investigation
  • ...