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Source: United Nations (unwomen.org)
Femicide is defined as an intentional killing with a gender-related motivation, femicide may be driven by stereotyped gender roles, discrimination towards women and girls, unequal power relations between women and men, or harmful social norms.
1. Women and girls are most likely to be killed by those closest to them.
In 2021, around 45,000 women and girls worldwide were killed by their intimate partners or other family members (including fathers, mothers, uncles and brothers). This means that, on average, more than five women or girls are killed every hour by someone in their own family. Current and former intimate partners are by far the most likely perpetrators of femicide, accounting for an average of 65 per cent of all intimate partner and family related killings.
2. Femicide is a universal problem.
Like all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls, femicide is a problem that affects every country and territory across the globe. According to the new report, in 2021, Asia recorded the largest number of female intimate partner and family related killings with an estimated 17,800 victims; followed by 17,200 in Africa; 7,500 in the Americas; 2,500 in Europe; and 300 in Oceania.
3. The true scale of femicide is likely much higher.
While the numbers presented in the report are alarmingly high, they are the tip of the iceberg. Too many victims of femicide still go uncounted: for roughly four in ten intentional murders of women and girls in 2021, there is not enough information to identify them as gender-related killings because of national variation in criminal justice recording and investigation practices.
In many cases, only gender related killings perpetrated by an intimate partner or family member are counted as femicides—yet we know that gender-related killings take place in many contexts beyond the private sphere. They can be related to rape or sexual violence by someone unknown to the victim; linked to harmful practices such as female genital mutilation or so-called “honour”-based violence; a result of hate crimes linked to sexual orientation or gender identity; or connected with armed conflict, gangs, human trafficking and other forms of organized crime.
4. Marginalized women and girls face greater risk.
The available evidence from Canada and Australia suggest that indigenous women are disproportionately affected by gender related killings. At 4.3 per 100,000 women and girls, the rate of female homicide in Canada was five times higher among indigenous than among non-indigenous women and girls in 2021.
5. Femicide can and must be prevented.
Gender-related killings and other forms of violence against women and girls are not inevitable. They can and must be prevented through primary prevention initiatives focused on transforming harmful social norms and engaging whole communities and societies to create zero tolerance for violence against women; early intervention and risk assessment; and access to survivor-centered support and protection as well as gender responsive policing and justice services.
To prevent femicide, it is crucial that national authorities record comprehensive data on victims. By identifying women and girls at greater risk, countries can better inform prevention and protection mechanisms.
Women’s rights organizations play a crucial role in preventing violence against women and girls, driving policy change, holding governments to account, and providing critical survivor centred services.
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The solution is to execute these men promptly after they're convicted of rape or murder. They're not scared to go to prison, because they hate women anyway. They're not scared of life in prison surrounded by men. Execute them publicly and detail their crimes. We've become so soft on violence that men feel very safe in harming us.
Horrifying. The UN is captured by the woke, though. Notice how they dont count our reproductive capacity as a motivation for femicide. It's a slap in the face to every woman who's abusive partner escalated and killed her after she got pregnant. Wearing blue instead of pink is never going to save a woman's life, is all I'm saying. And if huge, powerful entities like the UN refuse to talk about women's reality in plain, truthful language, it seems even less likely that things are going to improve.
This is great info.
But I am irritated that they don't say, "Men's violence against women." The perpetrators are erased, and women are just victims of some mysterious disease.
Men. Men kill women. Men abuse, rape and murder women. Why is this so hard to say?