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Global - femicide

2016 original call for national Femicide Watches | UN SRVAW

23/09/2019 — Policies, Guidelines, Jurisprudence
In her September 2016 report to the UNGA, the UN Special Rapporteur on VAW addresses the topic of femicide, or the gender-related killing of women, and proposes the establishment at the global, national and regional levels of a “femicide watch” and observatories on violence against...
  • femicide
  • UNSRVAW
  • Report
  • UNGA
  • VAW
  • observatories...
Global - data / data collection efforts

Interview with Angela Me, UNODC, about focus on perpetrators in fight against femicide | Femicide Team

01/03/2019 — Studies, Analyses, Reports
Angela Me explains why UNODC’s new global homicide report on the gender-related killing of women and girls includes a chapter on perpetrators. She calls for enhanced research and data collection to better understand men who are perpetrators of violence -- what is behind the drivers of...
  • femicide
  • data
  • data collection
  • statistics
  • UNODC
  • ...
Global - online violence

Femicide Volume 11: Cyber Crimes against Women and Girls

20/05/2019 — Studies, Analyses, Reports
This volume  again compiles strategies, best practices and innovative approaches, serves as a platform for, and provides practical support to anybody who wishes to prevent, investigate, prosecute, and punish VAW and gender-related killings of women and girls, i.e. femicide. The second section...
  • femicide
  • femicide volume
  • online violence
  • cyber crime
  • VAW...
Global - data / data collection efforts

Responses to UN SRVAW 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
    • ...