Chapter 17: Femicide in Georgia

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Executive Summary

Femicide, or gender-related killing of a woman, is an extreme manifestation of structural inequality and violence against women in Georgia. Identifying and classifying femicide is a challenge because of the absence of the term and agreed understanding of femicide in Georgian legislation and judicial practice, together with the difficulties in examining the motive of gender-based discrimination in the criminal act. The chapter examines approaches of identifying femicide as a gender-related crime in Georgia based on the current legislation and addresses the challenges in judicial practice. Femicide in Georgia is linked to prevailing manifestations of structural inequality and discrimination against women, often manifested in the sex-/gender-based discriminatory motive of the perpetrator that makes a killing gender-related. This motive reveals sexist attitudes, control over women, perceiving women as subordinates, prior history of abuse, and methods for committing the crime, which should be examined in light of the broader context of gender inequality, power imbalance, and specific vulnerabilities of the victims. In addition, the motives of jealousy and revenge should be considered gender-based discriminatory motives that make killing a femicide. Domestic and intimate partner homicides against women, killings related to harmful practices, and acts linked to sexual violence should also be automatically identified as femicides.

Author(s)

Tamar Dekanosidze

 

 


 

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