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They read through thousands of search results to determine which cases should be classified as femicides. A femicide needs to meet at least one of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime’s eight-point ...
As we survive the violence in Guyana, we draw attention to community actions to prevent femicide and gender-based violence. We encourage the following community-based actions. 1. Evidence based ...
Four months into 2025 and our nation continues to be gripped by femicide. These are not isolated tragedies, it is a systemic crisis rooted in misogyny, patriarchal power, and institutional failure.
The Court of Cassation has rejected a prosecutor’s objection to the overturning of an aggravated life sentence given to Cemal Metin Avcı, who murdered university student Pınar Gültekin in the ...
Prosecutors say Ft. Bliss soldier Luna killed teen mom Aylen Marina B.V. on April 7, 2023, in Juárez's Anáhuac neighborhood. Prosecutors say that Luna left Marina's body after shooting her ...
Former Fort Bliss soldier Saul Luna Villa was sentenced to over 27 years in prison for the femicide of his girlfriend, Aylin Valenzuela, in Juárez, Mexico. Valenzuela's mother was vocal on TikTok ...
Psychologist Dr. Nassim Nkatha calls femicide a symptom of a society that has long normalised female suffering. “Femicide is the violent punctuation of a sentence that begins with control ...
Picture: @DBE_KZN/X JOHANNESBURG - KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Premier Thamsanqa Ntuli is calling on communities to take an active stand against gender-based violence (GBV) and femicide in the province.
El Paso police detectives, FBI agents and Chihuahua state investigators obtained Information, video and evidence on both sides of the border that "allowed (investigators) to clear this femicide in ...
The new change typifies femicide in a specific article, and no longer as just another variation of homicide. Penalties went up from 12 to 30 years of imprisonment to 20 to 40 years.
Last year, Kenya recorded 725 femicide cases, translating to 2.66 deaths per 100,000 women, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. This equates to about 47 women losing their ...