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FEMICIDE X
Report on the Contemporary Forms of Enslavement of Women & Girls We are honoured to present the tenth volume of FEMICIDE on Contemporary Forms of Enslavement of Women and Girls. Since 2013 the ACUNS Vienna Liaison Office has worked hard to provide a...
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There was once a girl that had woken up with dirt on the floor and cracks on the walls with her growling stomach she is forced to get up and face another cruel day As she is stepping outside waving her family good-bye she will keep her head high and be aware of...
Anti-Money Laundering Training
Invitation To Attend Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Combating Terrorist Financing Course 10th - 14th of April 2018, Nairobi, Kenya. The eEnhancement centre www.e-enhancement.com in collaboration with O'Sullivan Associates & The International Institute of...
Volume V of the Femicide Report
The fifth report on Femicide is now released. You can download a copy of the report directly from here: Femicide Report V
Femicide Report Vol IV
A Global Issue That Demands Action Download the Report Here.
Resolution on Femicide
Resolution on gender related killing of women/femicide was adopted in May 2015 during the 24th Session of the UNODC Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.
How Kimberly Motley Defends the Rule of Law
‘Alcohol Use and its Role In Female Homicides in The Western Cape, South Africa’
by Shanaaz Matthews et al. Levels of alcohol use are high in South Arica and not much is known about women’s use of alcohol when murdered. The aim of this article is to describe the patterns of blood concentration (BAC) at the time of death for female homicide victims...
Forensic Medicine in South Africa: Associations between Medical Practice and Legal Case Progression and Outcomes in Female Murders
Naeemah Abrahams et al. Forensic medicine has been largely by-passed by the tide of health systems research and evidence based medicine. Murder victims form a central part of forensic medical examiners’ case load, and women murdered by intimate partners are an...
Injury Patterns of Female Homicide Victims in South Africa
by Shanaaz Mathews et al. Injury patterns and interpretation of injuries in homicidal deaths are important components of medicolegal autopsies. The objective of this article is to describe the incidence of female homicides and their related injury patterns with...
Violencia Femicida: Violence Against Women and Mexico’s Structural Crisis
by Mercedes Olivera An extreme expression of violence and sadism against women in Mexico is the increase in murders of women throughout the country. The causes of this violence are associated with the increase in extreme poverty, unemployment, the disintegration of...
Intimate femicide–suicide in South Africa: a cross-sectional study
by Shanaaz Mathews et al. The objective of this paper is to examine the incidence and patterns of intimate femicide–suicide in South Africa and to describe the factors associated with an increase in the risk of suicide after intimate femicide (i.e. the killing of an...
Risk Factors for Femicide in Abusive Relationships: Results From a Multisite Case Control Study
by Jacquelyn C. Campbell et al. This 11-city study sought to identify risk factors for femicide in abusive relationships. Proxies of 220 intimate partner femicide victims identified from police or medical examiner records were interviewed, along with 343 abused...
Mortality of Women From Intimate Partner Violence in South Africa: A National Epidemiological Study
by Naeemah Abrahams et al. The purpose of this article is to describe mortality of women from intimate partner violence (IPV) in South Africa using a retrospective national study in a proportionate random sample of 25 mortuaries. Homicides identified from mortuary,...
Rates of Femicide in Women of Different Races, Ethnicities, and Places of Birth: Massachusetts, 1993-2007
by Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner et al. To describe the epidemiology of intimate partner violence (IPV) homicide in Massachusetts, an IPV mortality data set developed by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health was analyzed. The rates of death were estimated by...
Necropolitics, Narcopolitics, and Femicide: Gendered Violence on the Mexico-U.S. Border
by Melissa W. Wright In 1993, a group of women shocked Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, with the news that dozens of girls and women had been murdered and dumped, like garbage, around the city during the year. As the numbers of murders grew over the years, and as the police...
LIBYA – Decree Passed to Pay Reparations to Victims of Rape As A War Crime
This is taken from an article by Zoë Schlanger - 6/20/14 A decree issued in Libya would recognize rape committed during that country’s revolution as a war crime and pay rape survivors reparations, according to two sources who have worked closely with the Libyan...
UNFPA and UN Women Launch Joint Global Programme on Essential Services for Women and Girls Subject to Violence
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, and UN Women are joining forces to launch a new programme that will improve the quality of and access to essential services that respond to the needs of women and girls subjected to violence. The four-year Joint Global...
India acid attack survivors pose for ‘ground breaking’ photo shoot-CNN
It was a photo shoot that caught India's attention. Five courageous survivors of acid attacks posed for portraits. In a country where victims of such attacks do not dare to come out of hiding, or show their disfigured faces in public, this was a "ground breaking"...
Different Forms of Femicide
from: http://femicidenews.com/about-femicide/different-forms-of-femicide/ 1. The murder of women as a result of intimate partner violence A study from the UNODC has revealed that in many countries, intimate partner and/or family-related homicide is the major cause of...