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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?

Topic Dossier

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The Femicide Volumes Collection 2013-2023

Edited Volume

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LATEST POSTS

News report about evidence on rape and killings of women in Ukraine

25.04.2022

News Article

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Femicide 2021: What Has Changed? Development of Femicide Watches and Observatories

22.05.2022

Article

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Interactive femicide map for Albania, Montenegro and Serbia

29.11.2022

Activist Data

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UN 2022 Statistical framework for measuring femicide/feminicide

04.03.2022

Official Data

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Petition to Declare December 6 as the International Day To End Femicide

10.12.2021

Campaign

Femicide and the Palestinian criminal justice system: Seeds of change in the context of state building?

01.01.2002

Study

Femicide: The challenges to typify the crime under international law

01.07.2014

Study

Femicide of migrant women

18.12.2019

Study

The death of Eugenia Baja: Feminicide and transnational feminist organizing among Filipina migrant workers

08.02.2019

Study

Opinion: The need for a national femicide watch in the U.S.

08.05.2021

News Article

Femicide Team

UNSA Vienna Femicide Team

NGO / Civil Society

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Report on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia

12.03.2020

Report

Making Black Femicide Visible: Intersectional, Abolitionist People-Building against Epistemic Oppression

01.04.2021

Academic Paper

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Femicide Volume Special Issue 2022: Femicide Observatories and Psychological Violence against Women, especially Mothers

Edited Volume

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Counting dead women in Australia: An in-depth case review of femicide

27.04.2018

Activist Data

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Femicide in Germany: A silent epidemic

04.03.2022

Video

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A Blueprint for Canada's National Action Plan on Violence Against Women and Girls

01.02.2015

Guideline, Framework

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'Femicide' song by South African rapper Ontiretse

13.08.2020

Music

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