We cannot hope to prevent the epidemic of gender-based violence if the State is unable to even define femicide, writes LOURDA ...

Femicide is “a crime of murder perpetrated by a man against a woman in the context of gender violence”. That’s the current legal definition in Argentina, where it’s been part of the country’s penal ...

More women were killed 2024 making it the deadliest in terms of femicide since 2018. Analysis shows that 170 women died at the hands of current or former intimate partners during the year. The data ...

The rise of the far-right is key to understanding agendas pushed by figures aiming to break with current international models ...

17 In 2022 AfriForum lodged a formal complaint for unfair racial discrimination perpetrated by the Government’s Gender-Based Violence and Femicide Response Fund ... it certainly does not meet the ...

Under the expanded definition, which includes discouraged work seekers ... robberies, murders, massacres, femicide, gender-based violence and other contact crimes. Public infrastructure has also faced ...

Kate has received funding for family violence and femicide-related research from the Australian Research Council, Australian Institute of Criminology, Australia's National Research Organisation ...

Language matters, in my view, so it is important to focus the attention on femicide, which is what triggered recent public conversation in Kenya and is the primary issue at hand. Femicide is the ...

In a major setback in the fight against gender-based violence, Argentinian President Javier Milei's government has announced it will repeal the crime of femicide from the penal code. In a speech ...

On January 24, Argentina’s Minister of Justice Mariano Cúneo Libarona warned on X that the government of President Javier Milei would seek to eliminate femicide from the penal code on the ...