Between 2021 and 2023, 24 cases of femicide were recorded in Albania (pop. 2.4 million). While institutional measures to ...

With recent outrage in Argentina over the brutal murder of 14-year-old Chiara Paez, the conversation about femicide has been reignited in mainstream media. The young girl was allegedly beaten and ...

Six years ago, Greta Rico’s cousin Fernanda was found dead in a garbage bag on a street in Mexico. She had been shot three times, and there were signs of sexual violence. As her family waited for more ...

"This is a war against women," says Kalliopi Mingeirou, chief of the ending violence against women section at U.N. Women. She is talking about a new report that estimates 85,000 cases of femicide in ...

Of Ottawa’s 16 homicide victims in 2022, seven were female. Last year, the Ottawa Police Service started using the term “femicide” in its public statements. And by the end of next month, an OPS ...

Women in Bosnia-Herzegovina held demonstrations on October 14 in Sarajevo, Banja Luka, and many other cities and towns to draw attention to femicide and call for the legislature to pass laws against ...

A trial began in Italy Monday connected to a shocking murder that sparked a debate over femicide. On Monday, a trial began for the murder of a 22-year-old woman in a case that has gripped the nation ...

Kenyan police used teargas against protesters in the country's capital city this week in response to demonstrations against femicide and violence against women. Police in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi ...

Senior Correspondent With the growing awareness about domestic violence and sexual assault, we rarely use the most concise word for brutality against women: femicide, the murder of a woman. Femicide ...

In the wake of recent events, including the ongoing conflict and its aftermath, femicide in Israel has become a pressing concern. One-third of all femicides (gender-based murder of a woman or girl by ...

Femicide - the killing of women and girls because of their gender - is the most extreme form of gender-based violence, but in many countries no record is kept of the number of cases. BBC 100 Women ...