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Nov. 1, 2024, 9:38 a.m.
Countries: South Africa
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"[South Africa] also ranks fourth in the world for femicide — the murder of women and girls by men" (para 8).
Oct. 16, 2024, 3:10 p.m.
Countries: Iran
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"What’s absolutely clear is that protesters keep turning up dead" (para 5). The regime is murdering primarily women protesters (CEC - CODER COMMENT).
Oct. 16, 2024, 11:31 a.m.
Countries: India
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"Data, however, aren't recorded in India in a way that would allow anyone to identify or count femicides. The killings of women are recorded as regular homicides" (para 3). "The total number of homicides of women also does not tally with other numbers presented later in the report. The sum of cases listed under "murder with rape," "dowry deaths" and "abetment to suicide" far exceed the homicide total. This mismatch has partly to do with how cases are classified when multiple crimes are involved" (para 9).
Oct. 9, 2024, 7:59 p.m.
Countries: Belize
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"Between the period 2017 to 2021 a total of 69 women were murdered in Belize" (5). "In 2021, there were…11 cases of femicide" (13-14).
Aug. 9, 2024, 7:09 p.m.
Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

“High-profile cases have also triggered a groundswell of support for more protection, including the murder of Sarah Everard as she walked home in London last year” (26).
July 18, 2024, 6:38 p.m.
Countries: Guatemala
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"From 2020 to November 2021, the courts responsible for trying cases of femicide and other forms of violence against women held 12,560 virtual hearings" (3). "From 2017 to August 2021, the Public Prosecution Service recorded 686 femicides reported nationwide; 481 of them were perpetrated against women aged 18 and older...Between 2017 and 2020, according to the judiciary, a total of 541 cases of femicide were brought before the courts, and it handed down a total of 289 judgments, comprising 66 acquittals and 223 convictions" (7-8).
April 12, 2024, 5:14 p.m.
Countries: Australia
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"[T]he femicide rate, which had been trending sharply downwards since the 1990s, has suddenly, in the past two years, shown a marked increase" (para 64).
Feb. 16, 2024, 4:44 p.m.
Countries: Honduras
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1, UVAW-PRACTICE-1

"More complicated is the issue of femicide, which preliminary data shows continues at a slightly reduced rate under Castro’s government compared with last year. Two bills aimed at combatting violence against women have so far stalled in Congress" (para 11).
Feb. 4, 2024, 5:28 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"The latest deaths bring the number of women murdered by their partners or ex-partners to 1,188 since 2003, when the government began recording such murders. Over the same period, 49 children have been murdered in domestic violence attacks. In 2022, 49 women were killed by their partner or ex-partner, while 43 women died in such attacks in 2021" (para 4). "'So far this January, six women and an eight-year-old girl have been murdered by sexist violence,' Spain’s equality minister, Irene Montero, tweeted on Monday afternoon" (para 5).
Oct. 15, 2023, 2:22 p.m.
Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"A report out today from the End Violence Against Women coalition shows more women were killed by men last year, with 141 known cases" (para 7).
Sept. 26, 2023, 10:17 a.m.
Countries: Australia
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1, MURDER-DATA-1

"The bodies of three people – including an Aboriginal woman and her baby – were found last month north of Alice Springs; the case is being investigated as a murder-suicide" (para 2).
Sept. 22, 2023, 8:51 a.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"On July 18, a woman killed her 11-year-old niece in Ramiros, Luanda, as part of a witchcraft ritual. At year’s end she was in the custody of SIC" (19).
Aug. 15, 2023, 5:31 a.m.
Countries: Canada
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"Last week, a young woman died as a result of severe burns after a man poured a flammable liquid on her and then set fire to her while she was on a bus in Toronto in June" (Para.1). "Police are investigating the homicide as a 'hate-motivated' act; it is not yet known what police think was the motivation. Given the victim was a woman, it has prompted many to ask: Why is violence against women not treated as a hate crime? This question is long overdue and has now been taken on by British Columbia’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner inquiry into hate in the pandemic. This is the...more
June 14, 2023, 7:56 p.m.
Countries: Bolivia
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"The Plurinational Constitutional Court heard a case on femicide and violence against women, which was resolved by Plurinational Constitutional Court decision (SCP) 0062/2015 of 16 July... Since March 2013 (the year Act No. 348 was enacted), a record has been kept of the number of femicide cases" (11). It seems that records of femicides were not required to be kept prior to 2013 due to prevalence (MV- coder comment).
May 12, 2023, 11:01 a.m.
Countries: Germany
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"In Germany, there is on average one reported attempted homicide of a woman every single day. And according to new statistics, every two-and-a-half days a woman actually dies at the hands of her partner or former partner. In 2020, 139 women were killed." (Para.6-7).
May 12, 2023, 2:12 a.m.
Countries: United States
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"In 2020, Private First-Class Vanessa Guillen, 20 - who was training at the Fort Hood Army Base in Killeen, Texas - disappeared shortly after she told her family she was being sexually harassed by an unnamed sergeant and felt unsafe. Her remains were found two months later, and a sergeant named Aaron David Robinson was later arrested for her murder. He allegedly bludgeoned her to death, but it's unclear if he was the man who had sexually harassed her, as he killed himself before his trial" (Para. 45-47).
May 11, 2023, 10:15 p.m.
Countries: Australia
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"The horrific murder of Hannah Clarke and her three children by her monstrous husband has resulted in landmark changes in domestic violence laws in Queensland, with the coercive control of a partner or family member is set to be a criminal offence" (Para. 1). "Rowan Baxter, 42, killed the young mother, 31, and her children Aaliyah, six, Laianah, four, and Trey, three, as they set off for school at Camp Hill, in Brisbane's south, on February 19, 2020.He doused the inside of the vehicle with petrol and then set it alight before fatally stabbing himself on a suburban street in front of horrified residents" (Para. 4-5). "An inquest into the...more
April 17, 2023, 2:24 p.m.
Countries: Mexico
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"Like many in Mexico, Díaz’s family has become accustomed to hearing about violence against women around them. 'I saw the cases of femicides on television, and I always said: those poor women, their poor families, their poor children,' Massiel Olvera, Díaz’s older sister, said. 'The horrible ways they violate their bodies, the atrocious ways they hurt them, how they leave them.' Six days after Díaz disappeared, Olvera found herself looking at images of her own sister’s body. As photos began circulating of the latest dumped victim, her phone trembled with incoming messages. The face wasn’t visible, but Olvera recognized the pants her sister had been wearing, her shoes, her hands....more
March 4, 2023, 7:01 a.m.
Countries: Egypt
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"Rabat - A 15-year-old Somali girl living in Egypt made headlines after she killed a microbus driver who had allegedly tried to rape her at knifepoint. The girl turned herself in to the police following the incident" (Para. 1). "The girl had managed to snatch the knife from his hand and stabbed him in the chest. She fled immediately after. According to her, she stabbed him in self-defense and killing him was not her intention. Accompanied by a lawyer, the assault survivor headed to the 6th of October police department and confessed to killing the man in self-defense recounting all the details of the incident. The Public Prosecution has decided...more
Feb. 27, 2023, 1:02 p.m.
Countries: South Korea
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"In 2021, a woman was murdered or targeted for murder every 1.4 days or less, according to the Korea Women’s Hotline." (para 12).
Feb. 18, 2023, 10:46 a.m.
Countries: Canada
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1, DV-DATA-1

"Since the triple homicide on 22 September 2015, 111 women in Ontario have been murdered by their current or former partner, the inquest heard. Every six days in Canada, a woman is killed by her intimate partner, according to Statistics Canada" (Para.4).
Feb. 8, 2023, 12:39 p.m.
Countries: Turkey
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"Scores of women are killed in Turkey on regular basis, according to local women's organizations. The number of femicides remains high, while the existing protective measures lack effectiveness. A local platform, We Will Stop Femicides, which tracks femicides and suspicious deaths of women, reported at least 282 femicides between January to October 2022. Another platform, called Anit Sayac [monument tracker], displays the number '349' on its homepage to represent the women who have been killed so far in 2022. "The stark numbers are indicative of just how few measures have been taken to protect women from violence by the state institutions." (para 1).
Feb. 4, 2023, 6:14 p.m.
Countries: Namibia
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"[T]he Namibian Police Force statistics recorded a decrease in the murder cases related to intimate relationship." (23).
Jan. 19, 2023, 11:32 p.m.
Countries: Iran
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"Iranian police said Amini’s death was an “unfortunate incident” and denied that she was physically harmed while in custody, Iran’s semi-official news agency Fars News said on Monday" (para 13). The Taliban has a tendency to beat persons in custody (MV- coder comment).
Jan. 19, 2023, 10:27 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"Women protesting against the suicide bombing of a school in Afghanistan, which killed 35 young Hazara women and girls on Friday, have been beaten and shot at by Taliban according to witnesses" (para 1).
Jan. 6, 2023, 5:48 p.m.
Countries: Iran
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"The trio are among 32 people hanged in the country in just the past week. It comes amid a surge in executions across the country, with at least 251 people killed by the state killed in the first six months of the year, Amnesty International reported. The figure is more than double the number executed over the same period last year" (para 5-7). "The charity accused Iran of carrying out a 'horrific spree' of executions, with many of those sentenced to death not having had a fair trial. Of the 251 executed, 146 of them were for murder, and at least 86 were for drug offences which should not warrant...more
Dec. 26, 2022, 6:07 p.m.
Countries: Bolivia
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"Attorney General's Office reports showed that between January and June of this year, 48 cases of femicide...had been registered in Bolivia" (para 8). "The Public Prosecutor's Office said that asphyxiation, blows or trauma, and the use of bladed weapons or intoxication by substances are the leading causes of these violent deaths of women" (para 9).
Dec. 19, 2022, 12:56 p.m.
Countries: Bulgaria
Variables: SUICIDE-PRACTICE-1, SUICIDE-DATA-1, MURDER-PRACTICE-1, MURDER-DATA-1

“As violence in general (and honour-related violence in particular) is not tolerated by citizens, the majority of the Bulgarian population (93%) consider honour-related acts to be inadmissible forms of cruelty that cannot be justified by any arguments.” (10).
Nov. 30, 2022, 7:53 a.m.
Countries: Egypt
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"Rabat - A 15-year-old Somali girl living in Egypt made headlines after she killed a microbus driver who had allegedly tried to rape her at knifepoint. The girl turned herself in to the police following the incident" (Para. 1). "The girl had managed to snatch the knife from his hand and stabbed him in the chest. She fled immediately after. According to her, she stabbed him in self-defense and killing him was not her intention. Accompanied by a lawyer, the assault survivor headed to the 6th of October police department and confessed to killing the man in self-defense recounting all the details of the incident. The Public Prosecution has decided...more
June 29, 2022, 11:54 a.m.
Countries: Mexico
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"But the horrifying discovery of a dead teenager in the lodge’s water tank has sparked a nationwide outcry and protests in a country facing a spiraling femicide crisis that saw 1,000 women murdered last year because of their gender" (para 2). "Escobar’s death has exposed what activists call Mexico’s worsening gender violence crisis and the botched and apathetic response from authorities. Last year Mexico recorded 1,015 cases of femicide – when a woman is murdered specifically because of her gender – compared with 977 in 2020. Overall, about 3,500 women were killed" (para 14).