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2015 UNODC International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS)

02.01.2015

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Femicide in Portugal during the COVID-19 pandemic

01.08.2020

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Killings of women and girls by their intimate partner or other family members: Global estimates 2020 | UNODC

25.11.2021

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UNDP + UN Women: Measures to address VAW during the pandemic have been uneven and insufficient

26.11.2020

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Response to OHCHR's call for femicide-related data and information

16.11.2018

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Counting the global scale of intimate femicide | UNODC Education for Justice Podcast 3

20.10.2020

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Data against femicide

01.08.2019

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Tracking Latin America’s other pandemic: Violence against women

14.04.2020

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Intimate femicide in Italy: A model to classify how killings happened

26.11.2009

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Expert opinions on improving femicide data collection across Europe: A concept mapping study

10.02.2016

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Catalonia analysis of 2016 statistical data on gender violence

14.06.2020

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Interactive map of feminicide cases in Latin America since 2019 | Mapa Latinoamericano de Feminicidios (MLF)

08.03.2021

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Intersectionality and invisible victims: Reflections on data challenges and vicarious trauma in femicide, family and intimate partner homicide research

04.02.2021

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Feminicide: Impunity for the Perpetrators and Injustice for the Victims

13.01.2018

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UK Femicide Census 2009-2018

26.11.2020

Official Data

Theories of femicide and their significance for social research

26.08.2021

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Defining Femicide: Introductory speech presented to the UN Symposium on Femicide

26.08.2021

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SRVAW on Data Collection 2020

15.06.2021

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