Operations
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
  • ...
Argentina - data / data collection efforts

Femicides in Argentina 2008 - 2017 | La Casa del Encuentro

01/01/2018 — Studies, Analyses, Reports
The Argentina Observatory counted 2679 femicides from 2008 until 2017, with 273 victims of femicide in 2017, according to their report.
  • Argentina
  • data
  • observatory
  • femicide
  • national watch
    • ...
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
  • ...
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
    • ...