Femicide and feminicide in Europe: Gender-motivated killings of women as a result of intimate partner violence | UNSRVAW
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women
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The paper is structured as follows:
(i) Information about the use of the concept of femicide/feminicide in the European Union (EU) and its Member States;
(ii) Information on data collection about gender-motivated killing of women and rates of femicide/feminicide in EU countries;
(iii) Information on manifestation of gender-based killing in Europe;
(iv) An overview of national legislative frameworks;
(v) Exposition of States’ responses to gender-based killings of women in terms of their due diligence obligation to prevent, protect, investigate and punish and provide reparations to women victims of such violence;
(vi) Case law on gender-based killings of the European Court of Human Rights and the UN Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW);
(vii) Conclusion and challenges.
direct consequence of gender-based violence and discrimination that women and girls face in
every social sphere, especially within the family.