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May 12, 2023, 11:01 a.m.

Countries: Germany
Variables: MURDER-DATA-6

"People of all genders can be victims, but women are disproportionately affected, accounting for four out of five cases. According to the latest figures from the German federal criminal police office (BKA), 119,164 women and 28,867 men were victims in 2020. This is a rise of around 5% from the previous year."(Para.4).

Mexico Drug War Increases Women Murders

Dec. 31, 2020, 1:28 p.m.

Countries: Mexico
Variables: MURDER-DATA-6

"About 12% of homicide victims in Mexico last year were women, compared with about 10% in 1985. That was down slightly from the early and mid-2000s" (para 5). "The study also said that while the vast majority of male homicide victims are killed with firearms, many femicides continue to be by “the most cruel means” such as stabbing, beating and strangling, which it said reflects misogyny" (para 12).

Guatemala Femicide

Dec. 14, 2019, 6:47 p.m.

Countries: Guatemala
Variables: MURDER-DATA-6

"The result is more disparity. While murders in Guatemala have dropped remarkably over the last decade, there is a notable difference by gender: Homicides of men have fallen by 57 percent, while killings of women have declined more slowly, by about 39 percent, according to government data" (para 57).

Jordan HRR 2017

June 8, 2019, 1:59 p.m.

Countries: Jordan
Variables: MURDER-DATA-6

"Governors used this provision widely, including to place women in “protective detention” when family members threatened to kill them to protect family honor. Although incarcerated indefinitely, these women faced no legal charges and posed no threat to public safety. Human rights advocates estimated authorities held 40 to 50 women under protective detention throughout the year" (8).

Mexico Drug War Murders-WUNRN

Jan. 7, 2019, 12:25 p.m.

Sweden 2014 CEDAW

Feb. 7, 2018, 10:37 a.m.

Countries: Sweden
Variables: MURDER-DATA-6

"Since the statistics on lethal violence (completed murders, manslaughter, infanticide and causing another’s death through assault) give an overestimate of the actual number of cases the Council carries out an annual audit of the lethal violence reported. This is in order to produce corrected data from which incidents that are not lethal violence, incorrect reports and duplicates have been removed. These audits show that women account for about one third of the victims of lethal violence. In 2013 a total of 87 cases of lethal violence were established in Sweden, and in 26 of these cases the victim was a woman" (page 22).

Switzerland 2008 CEDAW

May 3, 2016, 11:32 a.m.

Countries: Switzerland
Variables: MURDER-DATA-6

"A special survey on homicides and attempted homicides conducted by the Federal Statistical Office with police authorities revealed that, for the years 2000 to 2004, 40% of victims were women.14. If one counts only the victims who actually lost their lives, that proportion rises to 50%" (13).

CEDAW Canada Aboriginal Women

Jan. 23, 2016, 2:11 p.m.

Countries: Canada
Variables: MURDER-DATA-6

"The NWAC indicated that, in 2010, nearly half of the 582 cases [of murders of Aboriginal women] remained unsolved, while the overall rate of resolved homicide cases in the State party is about 80 percent. It also found that the 153 cases of murders of Aboriginal women committed between 2000 and 2008 represent approximately 10 percent of the total number of female homicides in the State party during this period, despite the fact that Aboriginal women make up only three percent of the total female population," (4).

Afghanistan's Hunted Women 2013

Dec. 16, 2014, 12:47 p.m.

Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: MURDER-DATA-6

“In Afghanistan, the percent of female murder victims killed by a current or former partner is unknown.” This text occurs at 1:30 (Coder Comment-SPS)

2011 SRC Colombia

July 9, 2014, 9:17 a.m.

Countries: Colombia
Variables: MURDER-DATA-6

"During the period 2009-2010 the following cases of violence were reported: 15,817 homicides in 2009 and 15,459 in 2010; 42 homicide victims in 2009 were civil society leaders and 3of them were women; 54 homicide victims in 2010 were civil society leaders and 9 of them were women. The significant number of murders of women leaders shows the intolerance that armed groups have regarding women ́s participation in social organizations, as well as in the defense of victims’ rights. In 2010 there were 39 massacres that claimed the lives of 183 individuals; in 2010 there were 1,150 mine explosions that harmed 167 people (16 of which were women); and87,990 people...more

White House Council on Women and Girls

April 13, 2011, 2:55 p.m.

Countries: United States
Variables: MURDER-DATA-6

"Females comprised 70 percent of victims killed by an intimate partner in 2007 and the proportion has remained mostly unchanged since 1993" (56)