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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Two years on, MPs have voted for a law on femicide after a long and passionately debated session of parliament.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025
She believes the new definition of femicide is too vague and will prove difficult for judges to implement.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025
It makes Italy one of very few places to categorise femicide as a distinct crime.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025
On Thursday, President Cyril Ramaphosa told the G20 Social Summit that South Africa had "declared gender-based violence and femicide a national crisis" in 2019.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 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 December, hundreds of women protesting against a recent wave of femicides took to the streets of the capital, Nairobi.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2025
The fact that Mexico — where women didn’t have a constitutional right to vote until 1953 and which today struggles with femicides — could have a woman president might seem remarkable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 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
The state of Mexico ranks 13th among the country’s 32 states in femicides per 100,000 women.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 27, 2022
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