A woman, or girl, killed by a man because of her gender — femicide. Yet the Irish legal and criminal systems don’t recognise ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gender-based violence is a major challenge in Kenya, which has recorded a significant rise in deaths of women and girls in recent years. Language matters, in my view, so it is important to focus ...

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 at ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The Effort is Latest Move by President Javier Milei Targeting Women’s Rights ...