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Sept. 7, 2023, 12:33 p.m.
Countries: Lebanon
Variables: MURDER-DATA-2

"Calls to resources that provide help are up... and, according to Mohammad Mansour, deputy director of the Resource Center for Gender Equality (ABAAD), an NGO that advocates for gender equality in the Middle East and North Africa, so are murders: Mansour told The New Humanitarian that the first seven months of 2022 saw 14 women killed by their partners in Lebanon, compared to 18 in the whole of 2021" (para 7).
Sept. 6, 2023, 5:32 p.m.
Countries: India
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2, MURDER-DATA-2

"According to the National Crime Records Bureau, 35,493 brides were killed in India between 2017 and 2022 - an average of 20 women a day - for bringing in insufficient dowry" (para 21).
Aug. 24, 2023, 1:08 a.m.
Countries: Cape Verde
Variables: MURDER-DATA-2

"[T]here were eight femicides in 2018, all of which involved situations in which women were leaving their partners" (5,14).
June 20, 2023, 9:30 p.m.
Countries: Nicaragua
Variables: MURDER-DATA-2

"Criminal investigations in cases of violence against women, femicide and gender-related murder are conducted by the national police, which handles reports of such crimes, assigns specialized personnel to deal with them and facilitates access to justice, all the while working to prevent revictimization. According to its statistical yearbooks and maps detailing the incidence of violence against women, the national police received reports of 75 cases of femicide, mostly involving women aged between 25 and 45 years, between 2015 and 2018." (33). Table 10 has two diagrams, one a line graph and the other a table, titled the ages of femicide victims that goes from 2015-2018. Combined, there have been a...more
April 17, 2023, 2:24 p.m.
Countries: Mexico
Variables: MURDER-DATA-2

"Women in Mexico state, which wraps around Mexico City on three sides, were already dying at a frightening pace. From January to November, there were 131 femicides — cases of women killed because of their gender. Díaz was the ninth apparent femicide during an 11-day spate of killings in and around Mexico City from late October to early November. The country saw more than 1,000 femicides last year -- second only to Brazil in Latin America — and on average, 10 women or girls are killed daily in Mexico." (para 4-5). "Data also show femicides are fairly concentrated. Nine of Mexico’s 2,446 municipalities, including Ecatepec, accounted for 13% of femicides...more
April 3, 2023, 11:29 a.m.
Countries: Mexico
Variables: MURDER-DATA-2, DV-DATA-1

"Acid attacks are most common in South Asia, but also have been documented in many other parts of the world, including Latin America. The Carmen Sánchez Foundation, started in 2021 to highlight the issue in Mexico, says government health data from 2022 suggests more than 100 women were attacked by chemicals or some kind of corrosive agent, though only 28 were reported to authorities." (para 9-10).
Jan. 18, 2023, 11:20 p.m.
Countries: Iran
Variables: MURDER-DATA-2, DTCP-PRACTICE-1

"22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, died in hospital on 16 September, three days after she was arrested and reportedly beaten by morality police in Tehran" (para 1).
Jan. 6, 2023, 8:24 p.m.
Countries: China
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2, MURDER-DATA-2

"[Women's rights group] Equality says that between 2016 and 2019 at least three women died of domestic violence every five days in China, the latest grim statistic in what has been a festering issue" (para 26).
Jan. 6, 2023, 5:48 p.m.
Countries: Iran
Variables: MURDER-DATA-2

"Soheila Abadi, now 25, was hanged in prison after she was convicted of killing her husband over 'family disputes' according to the sentencing courts. Two other women executed on Wednesday were also convicted of murdering their husbands, Human Rights Watch said. Activists claim that most incidents of wives killing their husbands are sparked by domestic violence but the Iranian courts do not take this into account" (para 2-4). "At least 26 per cent of those executed this year are members of the impoverished Baluchi ethnic minority which makes up only five per cent of the total Iranian population" (para 16).
Dec. 29, 2022, 12:22 p.m.
Countries: Malawi
Variables: MURDER-DATA-2

"Ritual attacks on children – especially those with albinism – are also often motivated by greed, a desire for power or a belief that their body parts can stave off ancestral wrath and cure everything from male impotency to poverty. Girls with albinism and mothers of children with albinism suffer extreme violence, including having their arms and legs hacked off while still alive... In Malawi, new laws resulted in reported attacks on people with albinism declining from 60 in 2016 to four in 2021" (para 8, 10).
Dec. 19, 2022, 12:53 p.m.
Countries: Bulgaria
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1, MURDER-DATA-2

“Between half a percent and 13% of the Bulgarian population confess that they know about forms of honour related violence in their own family or other families they keep in touch with…" (9). “Between 3% and 4% of Bulgarian citizens declare that they would exercise an act that is in reality some form of honour-related violence in order to protect the family’s reputation. On the other hand, 12% have imposed restrictions or prohibitions in situations in which they believed that the family’s good name had been threatened...” (10).
May 27, 2022, 11:45 a.m.
Countries: Serbia
Variables: MURDER-DATA-2

"According to the Ministry of Interior, 19 women were killed in domestic violence through September, at least five of whom had previously reported domestic violence" (25).
April 22, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
Countries: Canada
Variables: MURDER-DATA-2

"There have been four possible femicides in Quebec in 2022. There were 18 possible femicides in 2021" (para 9-10).
March 19, 2022, 8:16 p.m.
Countries: Bolivia
Variables: MURDER-DATA-2

"Femicide cases in Bolivia are on the rise and total 70 so far this year, an issue that for organizations such as the Coordinadora de la Mujer (Women’s Coordinator) is the result of 'insufficient' prevention efforts and the acceptance of factors such as alcohol abuse and jealousy as a justification for gender violence. The average number of victims of male violence, almost 10 per month from January 1 through July 31, is a cause for concern for women’s rights organizations in a country with a population of 11.2 million. Director of Coordinadora de la Mujer Mónica Novillo said that one of the shortcomings 'in public policy is related to prevention...more
March 19, 2022, 7:58 p.m.
Countries: Costa Rica
Variables: MURDER-DATA-2

"According to the Observatory of Gender Violence against Women of the Judiciary, in Costa Rica, from 2007, the year in which the Law of Criminalization of Violence against Women was enacted, to December 31, 2019, there were a total of 355 femicides. While in 2020, a total of 23 femicides were recorded"(para 11).
March 15, 2022, 11:02 a.m.
Countries: Lithuania
Variables: MURDER-DATA-2, DV-PRACTICE-1

"Domestic violence remained a pervasive problem. In the first eight months of the year, police received 27,914 domestic violence calls and started 5,362 pretrial investigations, 15 of which were for killings. In 2018 approximately 80 percent of all domestic violence reports were against women..." (11).
March 4, 2022, 6:57 p.m.
Countries: Fiji
Variables: MURDER-DATA-2

"...Rape (including spousal rape), domestic abuse, incest, and sexual harassment were significant problems. As of June, the Fiji Women’s Crisis Center recorded 295 domestic-violence cases; the center reported that eight women died in domestic-violence incidents as of September" (15). "The case against Saula Temo, arrested in November 2018 for the death of a transgender woman in a suspected hate crime in May 2018, continued at year’s end. Police continued investigations into the 2017 murder of another transgender woman, Iosefo Magnus" (20).
Feb. 17, 2022, 11:59 a.m.
Countries: Paraguay
Variables: MURDER-LAW-1, MURDER-DATA-2

"Femicide remained a serious problem. A 2016 law criminalizes femicide and mandates a sentence of between 10 and 30 years in prison upon conviction. As of October 1, the Observatory of Women’s Affairs within the Ministry of Women’s Affairs reported 25 cases of femicide, a significantly lower number than the previous year’s total of 59 cases. July was the first month since the enactment of the law against femicide with no reported cases of femicide" (13-14).
Jan. 13, 2022, 1:27 p.m.
Countries: Costa Rica
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2, MURDER-DATA-1, MURDER-DATA-2, SEGI-PRACTICE-1

"Violence against women remained a serious problem, and as of August the government reported that nine women had been killed by a partner or spouse. The killing of a woman by her spouse garnered significant public attention, as the perpetrator stabbed the woman multiple times during a domestic dispute while two of her three children (ages five and 11) were present in the home. Authorities arrested the perpetrator. The government launched a public campaign in response to concern about gender-based violence" (10).
Dec. 20, 2021, 11:19 a.m.
Countries: Belgium
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2, MURDER-DATA-2, DV-DATA-1

"The NGO StopFeminicide reported that 36 women died in connection with rape or domestic violence in 2018. According to 2018 statistics from the federal police, there were approximately 39,000 official complaints of physical, psychological, and economic violence, including 139 complaints of sexual violence" (9).
Dec. 10, 2021, 5:27 p.m.
Countries: Russia
Variables: MURDER-DATA-2

"A December 2018 study by human rights defenders, the first ever conducted, found 39 cases of honor killings (36 women, three men) between 2008 and 2017 in the North Caucasus region but estimated that the real number could be much higher" (55).
Dec. 3, 2021, 8:55 p.m.
Countries: Portugal
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2, MURDER-DATA-2

"Violence against women, including domestic violence, continued to be a problem. According to preliminary data from NGOs and media reports, in the first six months of the year, there were 16 deaths related to domestic violence" (9).
Nov. 30, 2021, 2:34 p.m.
Countries: Palestine
Variables: MURDER-DATA-2

"According to SHAMS, there were 20 honor killings in the West Bank and Gaza through October" (95).
Nov. 9, 2021, 11:34 a.m.
Countries: Turkey
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-3, MURDER-PRACTICE-1, MURDER-DATA-2

"Human rights activists and academics reported the problematic practice of 'honor killings' of women continued across the country (31 cases reported during the year). The prevalence of killings was most severe in the southeast" (54).
Sept. 22, 2021, 5:58 p.m.
Countries: Russia
Variables: MURDER-DATA-2, NGOFW-DATA-1

"In 2018, the government statistics agency recorded a total of 8,300 women killed. That works out at 22 a day. Contrast that with the UK rate of one woman murdered every three days. Like in Britain, NGOs say the majority of those happened in the home. The official number for domestic violence murders for 2018 was just 253" (para 19-20).
Aug. 20, 2021, 1:37 p.m.
Countries: Cambodia
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2, MURDER-DATA-2

"Some rape and domestic violence ended in death: A local NGO reported 10 killings in a January-June 2018 investigation of 39 cases of domestic violence and 18 of rape" (21).
July 29, 2021, 8:37 p.m.
Countries: Canada
Variables: MURDER-DATA-2

"In 2018 there were 164 instances of femicide, which is the killing of women and girls because they are female" (Para 4). "The study also found 41 per cent of violent deaths of the cases where relationship status were known involved a current or former intimate partner" (Para 6). "Of the 128 women and girls killed by a man in 2020, the type of relationship they shared was known for 88 victims of which 36, or 41 per cent, involved a current or former intimate partner relationship" (Para 7). "However, Dugal added, 'the reality of femicide, the murdering of women because they are women, does not shift year after year...more
July 28, 2021, 2:11 p.m.
Countries: Iran
Variables: MURDER-DATA-2

"Iranian media occasionally report on cases related to honor killings carried out by relatives, usually male family members, when the actions of women and girls are perceived as violating conservative traditions on love, marriage, and public behavior. It is not known how many women and girls die from such killings. In 2014, a Tehran police official reported that 20 percent of all murders in the country were 'honor' killings" (para 13-14).
July 15, 2021, 11:17 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: MURDER-DATA-2

"The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission reported a seven percent rise in violent assaults against women — from 1,394 to 2,579 — in the last two years in Afghanistan. But these statistics can mean that women are more empowered to report violence, not necessarily that the number of incidents are growing, said Horia Mosadiq, Afghanistan’s researcher for Amnesty International. 'We know for sure that there’s more fear,' Mosadiq said. 'But some of the systemic use of violence and attacks against women’s rights activists and women in public offices by Taliban have always been our concern'" (Para 13).
July 14, 2021, 2:28 p.m.
Countries: Russia
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2, MURDER-DATA-2

According to the figure entitled "Domestic vioence in Russia", "14,000 Women die as a result of domestic violence every year, that is one woman every 40 minutes" (para 5).