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Latest items for MURDER-DATA-1

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).
June 9, 2022, 1:54 p.m.
Countries: Mexico
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"The facts are grim. An Amnesty International report released in September 2021 found that 10 women and girls are killed every day in Mexico…" (Para. 2). "...As a growing feminist movement rises in Mexico in response to the country’s alarming rates of femicide, Melchor and this group of contemporary film-makers stand out as key voices in leading the cultural response" (Para. 6).
June 8, 2022, 3:38 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"According to official figures, 992 women in Spain have been murdered by a partner or former partner since 2003. Though the term femicide—instances of women killed by men on account of their gender—wasn’t included in Spanish dictionaries until 2014, violence against women came into brutal focus with the murder of Ana Orantes in 1997, a woman from Granada who shocked the public, first when she spoke on an evening TV program about the abuse she suffered at her ex-husband’s hands for 40 years, and 13 days later, when her ex set her ablaze. Newspapers began tracking gender-based murders around 2000. In 2003, the government created its own registry, logging the...more
May 12, 2022, 5 p.m.
Countries: Panama
Variables: MURDER-LAW-1, MURDER-DATA-1, DV-PRACTICE-1

"The law against gender violence stipulates stiff penalties for harassment and both physical and emotional abuse. The law states that sentencing for femicide is a mandatory 25 to 30 years in prison. Officials and civil society organizations agreed that domestic violence continued to be a serious crime. The PNP Specialized Unit for Domestic and Gender Violence created in 2018 continued to have 190 agents trained to work these cases. In June, Roberto Moreno Grajales was convicted and sentenced to 30 years prison for the 2016 killing of his former girlfriend, Diosila Martinez. He had originally fled to Costa Rica after the killing but was extradited in 2018 to Panama" (12).more
April 29, 2022, 5:43 p.m.
Countries: Russia
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"[T]he committee notes with concern:... The high prevalence of femicide" (6-7).
April 22, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
Countries: Canada
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"On Friday night, a 34-year-old woman was stabbed and killed in Montreal. A man was arrested shortly after. A week prior provincial police charged a 49-year-old man following the death of his spouse in Ste. Agathe des Monts after the couple's home was allegedly set on fire Thursday night. On Thursday morning, an elderly couple was found dead in northern Quebec with police suggesting it was a murder-suicide. In February, police responded to find a man and woman dead in Dunham, Quebec in the Eastern Townships, which officers suspected to be a murder-suicide. Though Montreal police (SPVM) would not use the term, Friday's killing is likely a femicide: the term...more
April 17, 2022, 12:06 a.m.
Countries: Sweden
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"The Committee nevertheless notes with concern: […] The lack of comprehensive and updated statistical data on femicide" (5-6).
March 25, 2022, 10:05 p.m.
Countries: Kosovo
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"In November 2018 the Gjakova Basic Court found Pjeter Ndrecaj guilty of murder and sentenced him to 24 years in prison for shooting and killing his former wife and nine-year-old daughter in August 2018" (23). "In September the Basic Court in Prizren ruled in favor of monetary compensation for the family of a victim of domestic violence who was killed" (23).