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 ...

She decried the absence of specific legislation addressing femicide in Nigeria, which she said leads to underreporting and misclassification of cases. Aronu-Okafor revealed that nine femicide ...

At least 10 activists, including Amnesty International Kenya Executive Director Irungu Houghton, were arrested last year during an anti-femicide march. The protest on December 12, marked the end ...

The murder of a 14-year-old Grade Seven pupil in Garissa last Friday is an indication that even minors are not safe, as Kenya now risks having femicide as part of its character. The suspected murder ...

Just 22 days into 2025, at least two femicide cases have already been reported. This is despite the heightened awareness generated during the 16 Days of Activism against Sexual and Gender-Based ...

This is far from an isolated case - Kenya has one of the highest rates of femicide, or killings with a gender-related motivation, in Africa. After police officers interrogated Mr Wambua ...

The appointment of a taskforce by President William Ruto to come up with a comprehensive, structured, sustainable and inclusive solution to the runaway femicide and gender-based violence (GBV) is ...

We look at the case of an elite athlete who fell victim to femicide there, and the change it's driving.

Violence against women is not a new phenomenon in this country, and the rate at which non-intimate femicide was committed last year is cause for alarm. Often, since femicide is a manifestation of the ...

Seven women killed last year. Some 33,000 domestic abuse incidents reported to the police in 12 months. MLAs debated the statistics that shame Northern Ireland. Four motions on ending violence and ...