femicide
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femicides
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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.
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the deliberate, wanton violation and massacre of women and girls, as in a particular ethnic group by an invading army.
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a person who kills a woman.
In certain countries, femicides appear to act with impunity.
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It makes Italy one of very few places to categorise femicide as a distinct crime.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025
The demonstrations railed against issues such as proposed tax rises, increasing femicide and corruption.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2025
"I want this to carry on and be a platform against violence for women and girls. It'll be used to help other organisations, femicide awareness and things like that."
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025
The state prosecutor's office said it is investigating the crime as a femicide, meaning that it believes the crime was motivated by the fact the victim was a woman.
From BBC ● May 15, 2025
Eastwood said that Northern Ireland "is one of the most dangerous places in Europe to be a woman" as she outlined recent femicide statistics.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2025
While many are supportive, some worry that she is insufficiently committed to supporting feminist efforts to halt femicides.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2025
In May 2021, Ruiz was working selling french fries in Nezahualcoyotl, one of the 11 municipalities in the Mexico State with an ongoing gender alert for femicides and another one for forced disappearances of women.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2023
She believes that the number of femicides can be reduced, but in her view gender-based violence is a global challenge - not restricted to Latin America.
From BBC ● May 13, 2023
Hundreds of women marched through Honduras' largest cities of Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula on Wednesday with demands ranging from expanded reproductive rights to ending femicides, or the killing of women due to their gender.
From Reuters ● Mar. 9, 2023
While attending the University of Texas at Austin as an undergraduate, the Chicago- and Los Angeles-based playwright took a Chicana feminism course that delved into the femicides in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2022
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