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Aug. 17, 2026, 6:23 p.m.
Countries: Pakistan
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"A white-bearded man looks straight into the camera, in the video circulating for the past few weeks on social media. 'I killed my wife,' he says calmly in Urdu. 'We have a give-and-take arrangement and when she refused to give, I said I would take.' Hours earlier, the 64-year-old had walked into a police station in Karachi’s Orangi neighbourhood and confessed to murdering Asma Begum, a 58-year-old mother of four, in the home they shared because she had refused him sex" (para 1-2). "In the Orangi case [in which a 64-year old Pakistani man murdered his wife], Tariq says the violence inflicted on the wife had been 'extreme' all because...more
Aug. 17, 2026, 5:17 p.m.
Countries: India
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"In 2022, there were 6,516 dowry deaths in India compared with 1,841 in 1988, according to the paper. Last August, Nikki Bhati, a 28-year-old from Greater Noida, a new satellite town outside Delhi, died from burns after being set alight by her husband in front of their six-year-old son in a case linked to a dowry dispute. As her murder was filmed and shared on social media, there was some outrage online and protests briefly erupted in Delhi before reaction to the case lost momentum" (para 3-4).
Aug. 12, 2026, 1:54 p.m.
Countries: Azerbaijan
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1, DV-DATA-1

“In 2025, 1,396 crimes related to domestic violence were registered. Among these crimes, 53 intentional homicides, 20 attempted homicides, 30 intentional grievous bodily harm, 64 intentional less grievous bodily harm, 1,202 intentional minor bodily harm, 6 torture, 1 threat of murder or grievous bodily harm, and 20 other criminal acts were recorded. As a result of crimes related to domestic violence, the number of women who suffered was 1,176. According to the data of the State Committee for Family, Women and Children Affairs for 2024, of the 1,451 registered crimes related to domestic violence, 1,254 were intentional minor bodily harm, 83 were intentional less grievous bodily harm, 42 were intentional...more
Aug. 12, 2026, 1:51 p.m.
Countries: Austria
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-1, MURDER-DATA-1

“The report also laments persistently high numbers of women killed in Austria. According to Federal Criminal Police Office statistics, thirty-nine women were murdered in 2022, 36 in 2021, 31 in 2020, and 39 in 2019: three women killed every month on average. The Austrian authorities are “well aware” of this serious issue, the report notes, having completed a large-scale study on femicides between 2010 and 2020, identifying underlying causes. GREVIO stresses that preventing such gender-based killings should “remain a priority” on the government’s agenda” (para 7).
Aug. 11, 2026, 6:11 p.m.
Countries: Pakistan
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"Mohammad Ramzan was on the night shift at the cement factory outside Karachi when he answered a phone call from home. His 20-year-old daughter, Khalida Chandio, had been shot dead in their village in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province. Now back home, with Khalida’s mother, Nabul, at his side, the devastated couple are trying to comprehend what happened. Nabul struggles to hold back tears. She says her daughter had been taken out from their home under the cover of darkness and killed just a few hundred metres away. The murder was filmed and has been widely watched on social media, including by her helpless parents" (para 1-3).
Aug. 11, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
Countries: Australia
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-1, MURDER-DATA-1

“This is a crisis hidden in plain sight: the killings and disappearances of Indigenous women across Australia. First Nations women are being murdered at up to 12 times the national average. In some regions, their deaths make up some of the highest homicide rates in the world” (para 1-2). “Four Corners can reveal at least 315 First Nations women have either gone missing or been murdered or killed in suspicious circumstances since 2000” (para 4).
Aug. 10, 2026, 9:12 p.m.
Countries: Canada
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

“This fact was brought to light by the Sisters in Spirit grassroots initiative launched in 2005 by the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) who documented that, by 2010, over 580 Indigenous women and girls across Canada were murdered or went missing” (para 2). “The initial estimate of femicide documented by the grassroots initiative has risen to almost 1,200 since the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) began investigating the issue following the Sisters in Spirit campaign” (para 3).
Aug. 10, 2026, 9:11 p.m.
Countries: Canada
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

“147 women & girls violently killed in Canada in 2025…NT, YK and SK had the highest rates of killings of women & girls involving male accused. MB and NS were also above the national rate” (1).
Aug. 10, 2026, 9:11 p.m.
Countries: Canada
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-1, MURDER-DATA-1

“The rates of intimate partner violence are higher for women with disabilities (55%), LGB+ women (67%), Indigenous women (61%), and women living in poverty (57%) than for all women (44%)”(1).
Aug. 10, 2026, 9:10 p.m.
Countries: Canada
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

“From 2011 to 2021, an average of 102 women and girls were victims of gender-related homicide per year in Canada, totaling 1,125 over the period” (1).
Aug. 10, 2026, 8:27 p.m.
Countries: Cameroon
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1, DV-DATA-1

“In Cameroon in 2023, up to 60 women were killed by their partners” (para 1).
Aug. 9, 2026, 6:55 p.m.
Countries: Brazil
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

“Brazil registered 399 femicides in the first quarter of 2026, the highest number for the period since the country began tracking the crime 11 years ago, according to government data released Tuesday” (1).
Aug. 9, 2026, 6:55 p.m.
Countries: Brazil
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

“Brazil registered 399 femicides in the first quarter of 2026, the highest number for the period since the country began tracking the crime 11 years ago, according to government data released Tuesday” (1).
July 29, 2026, 9:49 p.m.
Countries: Canada
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"Thirty women and girls have been 'violently' killed in Canada in 2026 so far, according to the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability" (para 1). "Last year, 147 women and girls were reported to have been killed in Canada, according to a two-page report published by the observatory. The accused in most of these cases are male, the observatory says. This marks the first decrease in femicide in Canada since 2019, according to the report" (para 3-4).
July 29, 2026, 8:57 p.m.
Countries: Canada
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"148 women and girls killed by violence in 2025" (para 1). "In Canada, we know that: One woman or girl is killed every other day, on average, somewhere in our country, mostly by men. A woman is killed by her male partner, on average, once a week. Some groups of women and girls are disproportionately impacted by femicide, depending on where they live in Canada, or because of their race, religion, sexuality, ability, and/or age" (para 5-8).
July 29, 2026, 8:35 p.m.
Countries: Cameroon
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2, MURDER-DATA-1

"Violence against women (VAW) in Cameroon has become more common, acceptable and has taken on more brutal forms. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the escalation in VAW in Cameroon can be linked to growing trends of militarization and militarism, prevailing unequal gender relations and economic upheaval. In the span of only three months (May-July 2020), there have been numerous reports and accounts in the media of women who have lost their lives at the hands of their intimate partners, of armed forces and insurgents in the armed conflict (the Anglophone conflict) within the borders of Cameroon... State indifference to high levels of violence against women coupled with social norms that...more
July 29, 2026, 7:38 p.m.
Countries: Cameroon
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"Speaking before the National Assembly on June 19, Minister for the Promotion of Women and the Family Marie-Thérèse Abena Ondoua said the country recorded 50 femicides between January and April 2026 alone. The figure is already approaching the 53 cases reported during the whole of 2023. Government statistics show that the number rose to 67 in 2024 and reached 77 in 2025" (para 2). "The minister said her ministry recorded 1,599 cases of violence nationwide between January and April 2026. The total included 166 rape cases, 50 femicides, 13 infanticides, three kidnappings, and three cases involving physical abuse of children" (para 6).
July 29, 2026, 7:11 p.m.
Countries: Burundi
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"A report in Kirundo Province reveals that from 2022 to the present, eight women have been killed; two other women from Rumonge province, one from Kayanza, another from Mwaro, and one from Makamba – all killed since January 2023, murdered by their husbands or sexual partners" (para 9).
July 29, 2026, 6:33 p.m.
Countries: Burundi
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

“Domestic violence continues to claim victims in Burundi. In Makamba, in Burunga province in the south of the small East African nation, a man is held by police after the violent death of his wife on Thursday night. Local authorities are reporting that the homicide was committed with a club, while a judicial investigation is underway to establish the exact circumstances of the tragedy" (para 1). "According to local administrative sources, Jean Bosco Miburo is currently held in the Mabanda police station, suspected of fatally beating his wife, Christine Minani, with a club. The incident occurred in the Mbizi sub-village, Mara village, Mabanda zone, in the Nyanza-Lac district. After the...more
July 22, 2026, 1:11 p.m.
Countries: Mexico
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

“The incident touched off particular furore given the high levels of violence faced by women in Mexico, where an average of 10 are killed every day. In the first six months of this year, more than 500 women were murdered because of their gender in a crime known as femicide” (para 8).
July 20, 2026, 6:56 p.m.
Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"...The 33-year-old marketing executive was abducted from a street in Clapham, south London, in March 2021 as she walked home. Her murder, by serving Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens, forced a national reckoning about women's safety. Couzens had previously been linked to incidents of indecent exposure before he abducted, raped and murdered her" (para 63-64).
July 13, 2026, 8:33 p.m.
Countries: Burkina Faso
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-1, MURDER-DATA-1

"According to news reports, suspected Islamist militants on motorbikes killed dozens of civilians, the majority of whom were women, in an attack that lasted several hours. Although jihadists have been active for years in neighbouring Mali, the historically-calm landlocked nation has recently been experiencing a spate of violence" (para 4-5).
July 13, 2026, 7:48 p.m.
Countries: Bulgaria
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"Women’s rights organizations reported at least 24 femicides in the context of domestic violence. The Ministry of Interior confirmed a steady upward trend in reported cases" (para 11).
July 13, 2026, 7:02 p.m.
Countries: Brazil
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"Brazil registered 399 femicides in the first quarter of 2026, the highest number for the period since the country began tracking the crime 11 years ago, according to government data released Tuesday. The figures come from the Justice and Public Security Ministry’s database and represent a 7.5% increase from the same period in 2025, when 371 cases were registered. On average, four women were killed each day" (para 1-2). "In 2025, Brazil recorded 1,558 femicides, a 3.8% increase from the previous year, according to Justice and Public Security Ministry data. That also amounts to an average of four women killed each day. The largest share of cases occurred in the...more
July 13, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
Countries: Brazil
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"According to the 18th Brazilian Public Security Yearbook, 1,467 women died as victims of femicide in 2023 — the highest number since the law that defines the crime was passed in 2015" (para 2).
July 11, 2026, 10:27 a.m.
Countries: Botswana
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"'Issues of domestic abuse ... tend to get low priority in the courts, but ... government has to ensure they are treated urgently and the specialised courts are a step in the right direction,' said Moeti, 36, a teacher. 'Many people, particularly women, have lost their lives at the hands of abusers because justice takes too long to be served,' she added" (para 13-14).
July 11, 2026, 10:05 a.m.
Countries: Botswana
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"Botswana is grappling with a surge in violent crimes against women and girls, with reports of murder and rape emerging almost weekly since the start of 2026" (para 1).
July 10, 2026, 9:01 p.m.
Countries: Botswana
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"Botswana Police Service Commissioner Dinah Marathe told reporters that 10 of the 25 murders recorded between Dec. 19 and Jan. 2 were related to gender-based violence" (para 2).
July 7, 2026, 4:06 p.m.
Countries: Argentina
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"Argentina has reacted with fury after the bodies of two murdered teenage girls were found just two days apart. The latest killings underscore the South American country’s enduring femicide crisis despite years of feminist campaigning, and have prompted alarm over the decision to cut support for victims of gender-based violence under the far-right administration of Javier Milei. Police found the remains of Agostina Vega, 14, on Saturday, in a field on the outskirts of the city of Córdoba. She had been fatally strangled and her body had been dismembered, according to local media reports" (para 1-2). "4. He [Claudio Barrelier, the man who murdered 14-year-old Agostina Vega] was arrested after...more
June 16, 2026, 5:43 p.m.
Countries: Iraq
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"The men of my [narrator, anonymous Iraqi woman]tribe [extended family] threw my relative Kawthar Bashar al-Husayjawi, 15, into a pit and put a little dirt over her body. They had killed her hours earlier with 10 bullets, and split her small head with an axe. My family then joined others in coming on to the streets to dance and celebrate her death" (para 1). "On social media, I [anonymous Iraqi female narrator] saw her [Kawthar, 15-year-old Iraqi girl and a victim of honor killing] childlike face, the last time she wore her school uniform. An old picture that doesn’t show all her beautiful features. Videos soon spread of members of...more