Countries: Australia
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"[Elisabeth Armitage, the Northern Territory coroner's] report found that 87 women have been killed by their domestic partners since 2000 in the Northern Territory and at least 82 of those women were Aboriginal" (6). "It was revealed that the murder rate had escalated (indeed, in April the Australian Institute of Criminology released the latest findings from the national homicide monitoring program which found that the intimate partner homicide rate had increased by 28% in a single year)" (10).

Countries: Lebanon
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"During this time [Covid-19 Lockdown], the Lebanese Internal Security Forces saw a 241 percent increase in the number of reported cases of domestic violence. Other reports found that 85 percent of the VAW during the pandemic occurred in the home, and that a significant number of Lebanese women felt unsafe in their homes" (para 9).

Countries: Honduras
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"According to the 911 National Emergency System, between 2017 and July 2020, 276,271 reports of domestic and intrafamily violence were received. From January to May 2020, 39,469 complaints were received for offences against women, of which 20,858 were for domestic violence and 15,164 for intrafamily violence, with a 20 per cent increase in complaints compared with those received before social isolation measures were introduced to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The departments with the most domestic abuse complaints are Cortés, with 8,650 complaints; Francisco Morazán, with 7,847; and Yoro; with 3,184" (10). "From 2016 to December 2018, 15,870 complaints of harmful acts committed against women for gender-based reasons...more

Countries: Lesotho
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"According to UNAIDS, one in three women and girls in the country were abused by an intimate partner in 2020" (para 22).

Countries: Brunei
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"Key gender indicators that are missing or not publicly available include the proportion of people living in extreme poverty; the share of women who were married before 18 years of age; and the percentage of women age 15-49 who have experienced violence by a former husband or partner" (para 20). The lack of a statistic for women who experience domestic violence indicates that either they couldn't be bothered to collect it (general apathy about it), it was difficult to collect due to societal pressures not to talk about it, or it was incredibly high and therefore incriminating (MB2-CODER COMMENT).

Countries: Australia
Variables: MURDER-DATA-2, DV-DATA-1

"Statistics show one woman dies at the hands of her former or current partner in Australia every 10 days" (para 19).

Countries: India
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"According to the World Health Organization, between a quarter and a half of all Indian women suffer intimate-partner violence" (para 31).

Countries: Germany
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"Cases of domestic violence in Germany rose drastically during the pandemic, as they did elsewhere – but instead of returning to pre-lockdown rates they are still rising, even though women are not, at least in theory, confined to their violent homes any more" (par. 5).

Countries: India
Variables: LRCM-DATA-1, DV-DATA-1

"But India still has a low labor force participation rate among women compared to other countries, a figure that had been on a long downward slide until the past few years. Women make up less than a third of India’s urban labor force, and men vastly outnumber women in both government and private-sector jobs" (para 20).

Countries: Malaysia
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"In a bedroom in Malaysia that has become a prison, the 14-year-old girl wipes away tears as she sits cross-legged on the concrete floor. It is here, she says, where her 35-year-old husband rapes her nearly every night" (para 1). "Deteriorating conditions in Myanmar and in neighboring Bangladesh’s refugee camps are driving scores of underage Rohingya girls to Malaysia for arranged marriages with Rohingya men who frequently abuse them, The Associated Press found in interviews with 12 young Rohingya brides who have arrived in Malaysia since 2022. The youngest was 13. All the girls interviewed by the AP said they are held hostage by controlling husbands who rarely let them...more

Countries: Kazakhstan
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"According to a UN Women survey in 2018, 17 per cent of 'ever-partnered women aged 18-75' in the country said they have experienced physical or sexual partner violence, while 21 per cent have experience psychological abuse" (para 10). "HRW also said that police in the country, according to the Interior Ministry, get more than 100,000 domestic violence complaints a year. The report added: 'In the first 10 months of 2022, 93 women in Kazakhstan were killed in domestic violence-related homicides and 794 criminal cases were opened into moderate and severe bodily harm charges'" (para 19-20).

Countries: Italy
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"Data from the Italian interior ministry shows that 106 women have so far been killed in Italy this year, 55 of them allegedly by a partner or ex-partner" (para 12).

Countries: Turkey
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"Seven women were killed by their partners or ex-partners across Turkey on Tuesday, according to the television station Habertürk. 'In total, seven women were savagely killed in İzmir, Bursa, Sakarya, Erzurum, Denizli and Istanbul,' Habertürk reported, listing the country’s major cities. 'The suspects were either their current spouses, or spouses from whom they were separated,' said the broadcaster, which listed the names of the victims with their photographs on its website. The women, aged between 32 and 49, were shot or stabbed to death. At least three of the assailants took their own lives, two were arrested and one who was wounded while being detained later died. The fate of...more

Countries: Uganda
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"At 15 she would be expected to move out of her parents’ hut into a communal one for girls. 'We, the Karamojong people, like our culture – whether good or bad,' Alany says. “It is in these huts that girls are raided and forced to have sex in the night. If the boys fail, they wait for the girl on her way to school or the market. Even though the community does not protect the girls from rape, the boys of the household beat the girls when they find out that they ‘allowed’ [themselves] to be raped'" (para 5-7).

Countries: Brazil
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"All types of violence against minors increased, including child maltreatment (up 13.8%), child and youth pornography (7%) and sexual exploitation (16.4%). 'It would be hard to present a worse scenario in relation to violence against children and adolescents than that which emerged in 2022,' the report reads" (para 4). "Brazil’s domestic violence hotline received an average of 102 calls an hour in 2022, amid an increase in domestic attacks and threats, while femicides grew 6.1%" (para 8).