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The Routledge International Handbook on Femicide and Feminicide

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Femi(ni)cide 101: What do you need to know about femicide?

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The Femicide Volumes Collection 2013-2023

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Identifying femicide locally and globally: Understanding the utility and accessibility of sex/gender-related motives and indicators

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Why misogynistic killings need a public label | Myrna Dawson

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Identifying femicide locally and globally: Understanding the utility and accessibility of sex/gender-related motives and indicators

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2023 Report on femicide in Albania, Montenegro and Serbia

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Saide Mobayed

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Four Decades of Criminal Justice Responses to Femicide

09.07.2016

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Femicide in War is Different than Femicide in Peace

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IACHR Proposes Policy Implementation for the Alarming Femicide Rates in Brazil (2021)

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