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April 17, 2023, 2:24 p.m.
Countries: Mexico
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3

"Despite the efforts in Mexico state and other jurisdictions, last year there were more than double the number of femicides in the country than in 2015, according to federal data. Some of that increase could be attributed to better record-keeping -- not all Mexican states had codified femicide as a crime until 2017 -- but the death toll has risen each year. Impunidad Cero, a nongovernmental organization that studies the high rate of impunity in Mexico’s justice system, said in its report this month that the rate of femicides nationally last year was 1.55 per 100,000 women, which was 125% higher than six years earlier. Some authorities have attributed that...more
Jan. 1, 2021, 3:52 p.m.
Countries: United States
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3

"Overall, Áviles considers the report’s tally of femicides to be conservative. Indeed, although the femicide rate calculated by his team is high by international standards — three femicides for every 100,000 women — it diverges from a widely cited statistic from a 2012 American Civil Liberties Union report that said Puerto Rico had the highest per capita rate of women over 14 killed by their partners. The new report places Puerto Rico’s femicide rate as the sixth worst in the Americas, behind Jamaica, Belize, Granada, Peru, and the Dominican Republic. While the researchers found that it was higher than the U.S. as a whole, when compared to the 50 states...more
Jan. 1, 2021, 3:52 p.m.
Countries: United States
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3

"Overall, Áviles considers the report’s tally of femicides to be conservative. Indeed, although the femicide rate calculated by his team is high by international standards — three femicides for every 100,000 women — it diverges from a widely cited statistic from a 2012 American Civil Liberties Union report that said Puerto Rico had the highest per capita rate of women over 14 killed by their partners. The new report places Puerto Rico’s femicide rate as the sixth worst in the Americas, behind Jamaica, Belize, Granada, Peru, and the Dominican Republic. While the researchers found that it was higher than the U.S. as a whole, when compared to the 50 states...more
Aug. 10, 2020, 1:24 p.m.
Countries: Mexico
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3

“Dalilah’s mother, Nery Rodei Pelayo Ramírez, was stabbed to death by her boyfriend on 16 September – one of nearly 4,000 Mexican women killed in 2019” (para 8).
Dec. 6, 2019, 2:23 p.m.
Countries: Brazil
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3

"Brazil -- which is home to over 200 million people -- is already among the most dangerous places on earth to be female. The report found that femicides -- when a woman is murdered for being a woman -- increased by 4% last year on the previous year, even as the national homicide rate fell 10.8%. In 88% of those cases, the perpetrator was the woman's partner or former partner" (para 3-4).
May 11, 2019, 6:18 p.m.
Countries: Argentina
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3

"According to Casa del Encuentro, almost 3,000 women have been killed since 2008, when the organization started to monitor femicides" (para 11). "According to La Casa del Encuentro, an Argentinian feminist organization monitoring femicides in the country, 230 women were murdered between January 1 and October 31, 2016—roughly one every 30 hours" (para 18).
Dec. 11, 2018, 4:32 p.m.
Countries: Panama
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3

According to the data chart, the female homicide rate in 2016 was 2.19 per 100,000 population.
Dec. 11, 2018, 4:32 p.m.
Countries: Madagascar
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3

According to the data chart, the female homicide rate in 2015 was 3.25 per 100,000 population.
Dec. 11, 2018, 4:32 p.m.
Countries: Burundi
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3

According to the data chart, the female homicide rate in 2016 was 2.29 per 100,000 population.
Dec. 11, 2018, 4:32 p.m.
Countries: Nigeria
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3

According to the data chart, the female homicide rate in 2015 was 4.97 per 100,000 population.
Dec. 11, 2018, 4:32 p.m.
Countries: Cote D'Ivoire
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3

According to the data chart, the female homicide rate in 2015 was 7.51 per 100,000 population.
Dec. 11, 2018, 4:32 p.m.
Countries: Slovakia
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3

According to the data chart, the female homicide rate in 2016 was 0.72 per 100,000 population.
Dec. 11, 2018, 4:32 p.m.
Countries: D R Congo
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3

According to the data chart, the female homicide rate in 2016 was 5.14 per 100,000 population.
Dec. 11, 2018, 4:32 p.m.
Countries: Algeria
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3

According to the data chart, the female homicide rate in 2015 was 0.37 per 100,000 population.
Dec. 11, 2018, 4:32 p.m.
Countries: Latvia
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3

According to the data chart, the female homicide rate in 2015 was 2.73 per 100,000 population.
Dec. 11, 2018, 4:32 p.m.
Countries: Albania, Armenia
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3

According to the data chart, the female homicide rate in 2016 was 1.03 per 100,000 population.
Dec. 11, 2018, 4:32 p.m.
Countries: China
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3

According to the data chart, the female homicide rate in 2014 was 0.51 per 100,000 population.
Dec. 11, 2018, 4:32 p.m.
Countries: Gambia
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3

According to the data chart, the female homicide rate in 2015 was 1.79 per 100,000 population.
Dec. 11, 2018, 4:32 p.m.
Countries: Palestine
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3

According to the data chart, the female homicide rate in 2012 was 0.19 per 100,000 population.
Dec. 11, 2018, 4:32 p.m.
Countries: Qatar
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3

According to the data chart, the female homicide rate in 2014 was 0.35 per 100,000 population.
Dec. 11, 2018, 4:32 p.m.
Countries: Saudi Arabia
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3

According to the data chart, the female homicide rate in 2015 was 1.15 per 100,000 population.
Dec. 11, 2018, 4:32 p.m.
Countries: Belize
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3

According to the data chart, the female homicide rate in 2016 was 8.15 per 100,000 population.
Dec. 11, 2018, 4:32 p.m.
Countries: Paraguay
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3

According to the data chart, the female homicide rate in 2015 was 1.74 per 100,000 population.
Dec. 11, 2018, 4:32 p.m.
Countries: Yemen
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3

According to the data chart, the female homicide rate in 2013 was 2.97 per 100,000 population.
Dec. 11, 2018, 4:32 p.m.
Countries: Djibouti
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3

According to the data chart, the female homicide rate in 2015 was 2.33 per 100,000 population.
Dec. 11, 2018, 4:32 p.m.
Countries: South Sudan
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3

According to the data chart, the female homicide rate in 2012 was 6.15 per 100,000 population.
Dec. 11, 2018, 4:32 p.m.
Countries: Nicaragua
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3

According to the data chart, the female homicide rate in 2015 was 2.14 per 100,000 population.
Dec. 11, 2018, 4:32 p.m.
Countries: Sweden, Switzerland
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3

According to the data chart, the female homicide rate in 2016 was 0.59 per 100,000 population.
Dec. 11, 2018, 4:32 p.m.
Countries: Belgium
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3

According to the data chart, the female homicide rate in 2014 was 1.41 per 100,000 population.
Dec. 11, 2018, 4:32 p.m.
Countries: Lebanon
Variables: MURDER-DATA-3

According to the data chart, the female homicide rate in 2015 was 1.23 per 100,000 population.