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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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Follow-up mechanism to the Belém do Pará Convention (MESECVI) (2004)

01.01.2004

Convention

Beijing declaration and platform for action

15.09.1995

Resolution

Global plan of action: Health systems address violence against women and girls

01.05.2016

Guideline, Framework

CEDAW general recommendation No. 35 on gender-based violence against women

14.07.2017

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Analysis of femicide/feminicide legislation in Latin America and the Caribbean and a proposal for a model law

01.01.2018

Legislation

Final report of ad hoc federal-provincial-territorial working group: Spousal abuse policies and legislation in Canada

24.02.2017

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Gender-based violence in Colombia: New legislation targets femicides and acid attacks

01.12.2016

Book Publication

Exploring the legal context of femicide in Mexico

13.06.2020

Legislation

Towards a historical materialist analysis of femicide in post-conflict Guatemala

18.06.2014

Academic Paper

Impact of COVID-19 on violence against women

10.08.2020

Article

COVID-19 can augment violence to Mexican women

10.04.2020

Article

Government of Canada legislation targets intimate-partner violence

04.03.2021

Legislation

The AKP's war on women: A dossier on the AKP government's (hostile) policy towards women in Turkey

01.07.2020

Country Dossier

Resolution on Femicide in the European Union and Latin America (EURO-LAT) (2014)

29.03.2014

Resolution

Intersection of two pandemics | COVID-19 and violence against women

24.07.2020

Report

"I would have killed her anyway". Kloop's investigation of femicide in Kyrgyzstan

17.12.2020

Activist Data

Official 2017 statistics on intimate partner violence in Germany

20.11.2018

Report

Femicide in Portugal during the COVID-19 pandemic

01.08.2020

Study

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