Countries: India
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1, IRP-DATA-1

"The latest data records 76,263 kidnappings and abductions of women - up 14% from 66,544 in 2016. Some of the crime was linked to murder, ransom and many were trafficked for prostitution and domestic work" (para 22-23).

Countries: Iran
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"In Iran, official bodies do not publish accurate statistics on femicide. However, Iranian newspapers occasionally report based on available news. For example, in the summer, the newspaper Shargh analyzed news reports from the crime sections of newspapers and websites, revealing that between June 2021 and June 2023, at least 165 femicides occurred in Iran. In two-thirds of these cases, the perpetrators were husbands, and in one-fifth, they were fathers or brothers" (Para 4).

Countries: Kenya
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei is the third female runner to have been killed in an alleged act of domestic violence at the same elite training camp in three years" (Para 1). "In 2021, Agnes Jebet Tirop, who was one of the world's leading long distance runners, was stabbed to death at her home in Kenya, just five weeks after breaking the world record. Ibrahim Rotich is awaiting trial. On the same day, professional runner Edith Muthoni was allegedly shot in the head after a violent argument with her boyfriend, Kennedy Nyamu. She was 27. In 2022, Kenyan-born Bahraini athlete Damaris Muthee was found dead in Iten, allegedly having been...more

Countries: Argentina
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"According to a report by the Argentina’s observatory of femicides of the ombudsman of the nation, 295 femicides were recorded between 1 January and 31 December last year" (para 7). "Although globally there are more homicides of men than women, the home is the most dangerous place for women and girls, she said. Sixty per cent of women are killed by their partners or family members, compared with 12% of men" (para 8). "'The Micaela Law was created because Micaela’s femicide, like so many others, could have been avoided if the people involved in the days, months and years before had made decisions with a gender perspective,' said Nestor García,...more

Countries: Costa Rica
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1, DV-PRACTICE-2, DV-DATA-1

"The local committees for the provision of immediate care and follow-up in high-risk cases involving violence against women, a strategy set out in the national policy for addressing and preventing violence against women, have proved to be effective in ensuring the immediate protection of women at risk of femicide and carrying out subsequent monitoring and follow-up of such cases. In 2019, three new committees were established in the cantons of Garabito, Los Chiles and San Carlos, in the north of the country. There are currently 19 committees operating throughout the country. According to the domestic violence courts, the committees provided assistance to 377 women in 2019" (5).more

Countries: Somalia
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"The deaths of three women in one week, all allegedly murdered by their husbands, has caused outrage in Somalia and sparked days of protests over the country’s femicide rates. Police have named the suspects in all three killings, which took place in the first week of February, as the dead women’s husbands. Two of the victims were pregnant. Even in a country where – after more than three decades of conflict – death and violence are part of everyday life, there have been demonstrations in the capital, Mogadishu, with protesters holding up placards showing photos of Lul Abdi Aziz Jazirain her hospital bed. The 28-year-old had been doused with petrol...more

Countries: Mexico
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"Jeysol Amaya was stabbed 37 times by her former partner and spent two months in intensive care. Amaya is still coping with emotional trauma from the 2015 attack, along with hospital and legal bills she incurred in her fight for justice" (para 1). "Amaya is a survivor of attempted femicide, a hate crime defined as the intentional killing of women and girls because of their gender. In Mexico, some 10 women and girls are killed every day by intimate partners or other family members, according to government data" (para 3-4). "According to the documentary, Mexican prosecutors over the last eight years have opened 1.7 million criminal investigations for beatings, burns,...more

Countries: Iraq
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"Daesh intentionally targeted Yazidi women and girls for destruction with acts including killing, rape, forcible transfer, and enslavement" (6).

Countries: India
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"A police volunteer has been found guilty of the rape and murder of a trainee doctor who was on duty in Kolkata, a crime that sparked protests across India amid concern about violence against women and girls. The outcry over the killing of the 31-year-old physician in August led to the trial being fast-tracked through the legal system. Judge Anirban Das said the sentence for Sanjay Roy, 33, would be announced on Monday. His punishment could range from life imprisonment to the death penalty. Police discovered the body of the woman in the RG Kar medical college and hospital’s seminar hall on 9 August. An autopsy found she had been...more

Countries: Australia
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"Janice [femicide victim] was the first woman to be allegedly killed this year of a total of 98 so far, according to Australian Femicide Watch" (para 2). "[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: Honduras
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"[T]he Office of the Special Prosecutor for Offences against Life of the Public Prosecution Service, from 2016 to October 2020 recorded 1,066 corpse recoveries as a result of the violent deaths of women nationwide" (9). "Response to, prevention of and reduction in violence in all its manifestations, including a 27 per cent decrease in violent deaths of women in 2018 compared with 2014" (42).

Countries: Kyrgyzstan
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"The campaign in 2018 gained particular attention owing to the death of Burulai Turdaaly Kyzy, a student at a medical college, in the building of the district internal affairs agency. At the end of the trial in connection with her death, her acquaintance, who had kidnapped her for the purpose of marriage, was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment with confiscation of property for murder" (17).

Countries: Argentina
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"On 1 April 2017, García was followed home from a nightclub in Gualeguay, 140 miles north of Buenos Aires, raped and killed. Within a week, her decomposed and naked body was found in a field on the outskirts of the town" (para 3). "Argentina reported 322 femicides in 2023. The term is used to refer to the misogynist killing of women, or, as feminist Diana Russell has said, 'the killing of females by males because they are female'. The figure is a record high and marks a 33% increase from 2022, when 242 died, according to a new report by the National Ombudsman’s Office. The report says 61 of the...more

Countries: Germany
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"In Germany there were 360 femicides in 2023 alone, according to the federal criminal police office in a recent report. The statistic counts closed criminal cases, which are, by definition, 'killings of women because they are women'" (par. 4).

Countries: Saudi Arabia
Variables: LRCM-DATA-2, MURDER-DATA-1

"A ‘celebrity’ Saudi preacher accused of raping, torturing and killing his five-year-old daughter has reportedly been released from custody after agreeing to pay ‘blood money’. Fayhan al-Ghamdi had been accused of killing his daughter Lama, who suffered multiple injuries including a crushed skull, broken back, broken ribs, a broken left arm and extensive bruising and burns. Social workers say she had also been repeatedly raped and burnt. Fayhan al-Ghamdi admitted using a cane and cables to inflict the injuries after doubting his five-year-old daughter’s virginity and taking her to a doctor, according to the campaign group Women to Drive" (para 1-3).