Countries: Pakistan
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2

"Today's biggest challenge is locating the woman in distress. But then they meet a thin 13-year-old boy who points them in the right direction. He turns out to be her son, and she soon rushes to meet the offiecers, sobbing and showing them bruises on her face and neck. She says her husband had tried to strangle her" (par. 14).

Countries: India
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2

"A 2019 Human Rights Watch report on acid attacks in Cambodia included a reference to the "gendered aspect" of some assaults, while acid attacks on women in India were on the rise that same year" (Para 24). Approximately 300 cases are reported annually, but Tania Singh, CEO of Make Love, Not Scars, estimates the actual number to be closer to 1,000 (UST - CODERS COMMENT).

Countries: Indonesia
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2

"A university student was getting ready for church on Christmas Eve in Indonesia when a man snuck into her apartment to carry out an attack that would scar her for life. As she stepped out of the shower with a towel around her torso, the man allegedly poured acid over her face and body. Then the victim screamed, screamed loudly, and the perpetrator immediately ran away," said Probo Satrio, the head of Yogyakarta Police's Criminal Investigation Department. The brutal assault was among a spate of acid attacks in Indonesia in 2024, which included several committed by men against women. Billy Vilsen, a master's student at a university in Yogyakarta, dated...more

Countries: Indonesia
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2

"A university student was getting ready for church on Christmas Eve in Indonesia when a man snuck into her apartment to carry out an attack that would scar her for life. As she stepped out of the shower with a towel around her torso, the man allegedly poured acid over her face and body. Then the victim screamed, screamed loudly, and the perpetrator immediately ran away," said Probo Satrio, the head of Yogyakarta Police's Criminal Investigation Department. The brutal assault was among a spate of acid attacks in Indonesia in 2024, which included several committed by men against women. Billy Vilsen, a master's student at a university in Yogyakarta, dated...more

Countries: Indonesia
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2

"A university student was getting ready for church on Christmas Eve in Indonesia when a man snuck into her apartment to carry out an attack that would scar her for life. As she stepped out of the shower with a towel around her torso, the man allegedly poured acid over her face and body. Then the victim screamed, screamed loudly, and the perpetrator immediately ran away," said Probo Satrio, the head of Yogyakarta Police's Criminal Investigation Department. The brutal assault was among a spate of acid attacks in Indonesia in 2024, which included several committed by men against women. Billy Vilsen, a master's student at a university in Yogyakarta, dated...more

Countries: Indonesia
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2

"A university student was getting ready for church on Christmas Eve in Indonesia when a man snuck into her apartment to carry out an attack that would scar her for life. As she stepped out of the shower with a towel around her torso, the man allegedly poured acid over her face and body. Then the victim screamed, screamed loudly, and the perpetrator immediately ran away," said Probo Satrio, the head of Yogyakarta Police's Criminal Investigation Department. The brutal assault was among a spate of acid attacks in Indonesia in 2024, which included several committed by men against women. Billy Vilsen, a master's student at a university in Yogyakarta, dated...more

Countries: North Korea
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2

"Escaped North Koreans returned to Kim's clutches face a living hell of rape and torture-induced miscarriages, where newborns are murdered and the elderly beaten to death" (Para 1). "She said: 'The guards would attempt to induce miscarriages by making the women stay in a squatting position for prolonged periods or forcing them to carry heavy buckets of water. 'They would drag them to the hospital if that didn't work.' She continued: 'The worst was when North Korean security agents killed a newborn baby. Some women were captured when they were already in the final month of pregnancy, their bellies heavily swollen. 'The authorities tried every method to induce a miscarriage,...more

Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2

"Nearly 80 girls were poisoned and hospitalised in two separate attacks at their primary schools in northern Afghanistan, an education official has said" (par. 1). "Nearly 80 female students were poisoned in Sangcharak district, said Mohammad Rahmani, who heads the provincial education department. He said 60 students were poisoned in Naswan-e-Kabod Aab School and 17 others were poisoned in Naswan-e-Faizabad School" (par. 6-7). "He [Mohammad Rahmani] gave no information on how the girls were poisoned or the nature of their injuries. Mr Rahmani did not give their ages but said they were in grades 1 to 6" (par. 10).

Countries: Bangladesh
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2

"Since the day of my attack – the day that my life changed forever – I've learned that acid is used in attacks against women and girls because so much bearing is placed on their physical appearance in society. Acid attacks are used as a means to permanently scar the survivor and reinforce harmful patriarchal norms that are rooted in a male sense of entitlement over women. I rejected a relationship proposal. I was attacked with acid as a result. A woman's disfigurement becomes a public mark of shame, making it hard for her to go to school, gain employment or engage in public life" (para 9-11).

Countries: Australia
Variables: SUICIDE-PRACTICE-1, MURDER-PRACTICE-2

"A 2018 Senate inquiry into dowry abuse heard it had resulted in violence, extortion and a spate of suicides and murders" (para 19).

Countries: Australia
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2, MURDER-DATA-2

“[C]lose to half of all female domestic and family violence related deaths in Queensland from 2015 to 2017 were of women who had previously been identified as a respondent to a domestic violence order. Failure to appropriately identify the primary domestic abuser disproportionately impacts First Nations women, who are also more likely to experience structural racism in the criminal legal system. ‘The deceased person had been recorded as both a respondent and an aggrieved party in domestic violence orders in nearly all of the domestic and family violence related deaths of Aboriginal people,’ The State of Knowledge Report on Violence Perpetration shows” (25-27). “Between 2010 and 2014 there were 152...more

Countries: Australia
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2

"Sixty-one per cent of victims had separated from their partner. In each case, this was at the instigation of the woman" (para 73).

Countries: South Korea
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2

“She has had to leave her home because her address was leaked, and she was receiving so many death threats. The ones that stick with her, she says, are from the people who threaten to feed her acid or pour it in her face. It has been the hardest six months of her life, she admits, after experiencing first-hand the sexism and misogyny that pervades politics” (para 12). Threats indicate that these actions already take place (ET - CODER COMMENT).

Countries: Germany
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2

Every two-and-a-half days a woman in Germany dies at the hands of her partner or former partner, according to figures presented on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. (Para.1).

Countries: Mexico
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2

"Ríos, 29, thought her career as a musician and her devotion to her saxophone were what led her former boyfriend — an influential politician — to hire the men who splashed acid onto her face and body, disfiguring her. Later, she learned he simply couldn’t accept that she had broken off their relationship." (para 2). "'We are reconciling, little by little,' Ríos said of the musical instrument. 'I hated it, because I thought it was responsible' for the 2019 attack in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca. She’s performed live since then, but still wears a mask covering her lower face.'It bothered my attacker a lot that I was a musician,'...more