femicide
the act of killing a woman, as by a domestic partner or a member of a criminal enterprise: The rate of femicide where there is drug trafficking is far greater than it is elsewhere.
the deliberate, wanton violation and massacre of women and girls, as in a particular ethnic group by an invading army.: Compare genocide.
a person who kills a woman: In certain countries, femicides appear to act with impunity.
Origin of femicide
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How to use femicide in a sentence
Yet only 24 percent of the 3,892 femicides the group identified in 2012 and 2013 were looked at by authorities.
Why Mexicans Are Enraged by Obama’s Big Tuesday Meeting | Ruben Navarrette Jr. | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTFemicides, Russell argues, are hate crimes, just like the killing of people on account of race, sexual preference, or ethnicity.
However, in male-dominated societies—such as Italy and Spain—femicides are still tolerated to a large extent.
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