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The Routledge International Handbook on Femicide and Feminicide

Book Publication

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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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LATEST POSTS

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More Attention Needs to be Drawn to Femicide in Zimbabwe

19.05.2022

Article

Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (2011)

05.11.2011

Convention

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Black Women in the United States Face Police Brutality

04.03.2022

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EIGE 2023 Report on How the EU Can Improve Legal Responses to Femicide

07.02.2023

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The Istanbul Convention and the CEDAW framework: A comparison of measures to prevent and combat violence against women

01.01.2011

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UNODC Global Study on Homicide 2019: Gender-related killings of women and girls

05.07.2019

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

03.07.2023

Legislation

The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Final Report 2019

06.06.2019

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

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Karine Duhamel: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Canada

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The Visibility of Violence Against Black Women in the United States

01.01.2021

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Gender-related killings of women and girls (femicide/feminicide): global estimates in the private sphere in 2021

01.11.2022

Official Data

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Latin American Model Protocol for the investigation of gender-related killings of women (femicide/feminicide)

01.01.2014

Guideline, Framework

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Inter-American model law on the prevention, punishment and eradication of the gender-related killing of women and girls (femicide/feminicide)

01.01.2018

Guideline, Framework

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Mexico: The long history of feminicide and the case of Mariana Lima | UNSA Vienna Femicide Team

Country Dossier

EIGE 2021 research report on Measuring femicide in the Netherlands

22.11.2021

Report

Gender equality and female homicide victimization rates in the EU

16.09.2016

Academic Paper

GREVIO baseline report 2020 evaluating the Netherlands approach to VAW

20.01.2020

Report

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