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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...
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
  • ...
Global - online violence

Online and ICT-faciliated VAW | Vienna Femicide Team

22/03/2019 — Studies, Analyses, Reports
Online and ICT-facilitated violence against women is a relatively new phenomenon. The scare data estimates that 23% of women have experienced online abuse or harassment at least once in their life. Saide Mobayed provides a short overview, on occasion of a symposium on this topic, held in November...
  • online violence
  • ICT-facilitated violence
  • ICT
  • symposium
    • ...
Global - femicide

Femicide Volume 1: A Global Issue that Demands Action | ACUNS Vienna

12/03/2019 — Studies, Analyses, Reports
On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Vienna Liaison Office of ACUNS organized a one-day symposium on femicide in the United Nations (UN) Office in Vienna. Member State representatives, social scientists, NGO representatives, law enforcement...
  • femicide
  • definition
  • symposium
  • declaration
...
Global - femicide

Strategies to advance global struggle against femicide: Diana Russell at U.N. Symposium on Femicide 2012

01/11/2012 — Femicide Definitions
Dr. Russell's article, "Best Strategies to Advance the Global Struggle Against Femicide," is a considerably revised and much lengthier version of her concluding speech at the U.N. Symposium on Femicide in Vienna, Austria, in November 2012. After describing her efforts to disseminate...
  • Diana Russell
  • United Nations
  • femicide
  • feminicide
  • femicidio...
Global - VAW

Major campaigns against VAW and femicide | Vienna Femicide Team

01/09/2018 — Grassroots, Advocacy, Campaigns
Helena Gabriel, member of the Vienna Femicide Team, provides a list of the most inspirational and effective campaigns against femicide, their purposes, outcomes and strategies.
  • campaigns
  • EU
  • femicide
  • VAW
  • Ni Una Menos
  • Argentine...