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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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Chapter 44: North American Necropolitics and Gender: On Black Lives Matter and Black Femicide

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Chapter 46: Dissident Memories: Feminicide, Memorialization, and the Fight Against State Cruelty

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

29.08.2020

Study

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Why misogynistic killings need a public label | Myrna Dawson

27.04.2018

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2023 Report on femicide in Albania, Montenegro and Serbia

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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

04.04.2022

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Spike in Femicide Rates During the Pandemic Report

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

03.07.2023

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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

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Black Women in the United States Face Police Brutality

04.03.2022

Resolution

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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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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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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