Jan 23, 2025 · We have even got to the point of normalizing the fact that in many supposedly civilized countries, if you kill a woman, it is called femicide. And this carries more serious punishment than if you kill a man simply based on the sex of the victim – legally making a woman's life be worth more than that of a man.

Nov 25, 2020 · And in the UK, a new first-of-its-kind report from the Femicide Census shows that a man kills a woman every three days in the country – a statistic unchanged across the 10 years studied. “Men’s violence against women is a leading cause of the premature death for women globally but research in the UK and Europe is limited and unconnected ...

May 28, 2019 · But women in Central America face added threats from gang violence and organized criminal activity. Rates of femicide – the murder of a woman or girl for gender-related reasons – have reached epidemic levels. In Honduras, there were 5.8 femicides per 100,000 women in 2016. In El Salvador, the rate is an appalling 10.2 per 100,000.

In August 2019, 49 women in Turkey were killed by men that they knew, according to women’s rights platform We Will Stop Femicide. That month, Emine Bulut , a 38-year-old mother, was killed by her ex-husband in a cafe in front of her daughter.

Mar 10, 2022 · Four Black women who have advanced civil rights: the list includes a leader of the movement to end female genital cutting, a campaigner for the rights of favela residents in Brazil, the first woman appointed director-general of the World Trade Organisation, and the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Jul 13, 2022 · Access World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2022 here.

Jul 23, 2019 · We have recently witnessed millions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex (LGBTI) people protesting in streets across the globe to call out homo-, bi-, trans and interphobia, to fight against discrimination and violence towards our communities and for …

Jan 19, 2024 · The 54th Annual Meeting of The World Economic Forum will take place at Davos-Klosters from 15th to 19th January 2024.

Oct 28, 2019 · At the outset, it is important to reflect on just how many people are affected by violence. While difficult to measure with precision, as many as 600,000 people - including almost 100,000 women and girls - die around the world each year as a result of conflict, crime, extremist and extrajudicial violence.

Aug 31, 2020 · If change-makers want to be hands-on, then they need to be the kind of people who can connect climate action groups with well-inclined legislators in Russia, or bring anti-femicide organizations from northern Mexico together for coordination and exposure to funders from Denmark, and then step out of the channel to let the relationship develop.