South Africans will come together for a peaceful demonstration to honor the lives of two sisters, Nokwanda Klaas, 27, and ...

DOHS Cares Foundation, a group focused on women and children matters has launched the #NoDeyKpaiWoman campaign to create awareness and take action against rising incidences of femicide.

But when it comes to femicide — the killing of women and girls because they are women — words often fail us. Newspaper clippings on femicide. Credit: Tu Anh Hoang, Pauline Oosterhoff Femicide, ...

ROME (AP) — The Italian government approved a draft law that for the first time introduces the legal definition of femicide in the country’s criminal law and punishes it with life imprisonment.

he increasing media coverage of the alarming rise in femicide has only intensified public fear. Violence against women has now escalated to the point of fatality, serving as a grim consequence of ...

Protesters attending the demonstration and participating in the minute of noise against violence on women following the femicide of Giulia Cecchettin in Piazza Castello (Picture: NurPhoto via ...

Inadequate resources and the poor implementation of laws that are supposed to protect women are hampering the efforts against the scourge of femicide and intimate partner violence (IPV).

The Italian Council of Ministers approved on Friday a draft law introducing the crime of femicide, and making it punishable by life imprisonment. Under the proposed legislation, femicide is defined as ...

In May 2024, Rebecca Cheptegi, a Ugandan marathon runner, was burned to death by her boyfriend. Cheptegi’s murder is one of the several cases of femicide in African countries. Femicide is the ...

Protestors hold signs reading "80 orphan children victims of femicides in 2024" (on the left) and "Chahinez, we do not forget you," during a demonstration on the sidelines of the trial of Chahinez ...

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