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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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United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Reports on Femicide

Topic Dossier

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2024 new Brazilian law punishes femicide with up to 40 years in prison

11.10.2024

Legislation

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2017 Glossary of definitions of rape, femicide and intimate partner violence | EIGE

07.06.2017

Study

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Femi(ni)cide 101: What do you need to know about femicide?

Topic Dossier

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EIGE's Innovative Classification System of Femicide

23.11.2021

Report

2012 Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Rashida Manjoo

23.05.2012

Report

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What data do we have on femicide? | FWP Editorial Team

Topic Dossier

Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (2011)

05.11.2011

Convention

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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

Convention

The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Final Report 2019

06.06.2019

Guideline, Framework

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Latin American Model Protocol for the investigation of gender-related killings of women (femicide/feminicide)

01.01.2014

Guideline, Framework

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Inter-American model law on the prevention, punishment and eradication of the gender-related killing of women and girls (femicide/feminicide)

01.01.2018

Guideline, Framework

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Mexico: The long history of feminicide and the case of Mariana Lima | UNSA Vienna Femicide Team

Country Dossier

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Relationship between Gender-based Violence and Femicide

Topic Dossier

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Femicide as a Phenomenon in Europe

Regional Dossier

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Femicide as a Phenomenon in The Netherlands

Country Dossier

UNSRVAW 2021 report: Taking stock of the femicide watch initiative

12.07.2021

Report

A theoretical approach to the concept of femicide/feminicide

26.08.2021

Study

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