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

Countries: Canada
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2

"A community in rural Canada has made a series of transformative recommendations at a coroner’s inquest that – if adopted – could position the country’s most populous province as a leader in preventing femicides, particularly those carried out by an intimate partner" (Para.1). "The jury in Renfrew County, Ontario, just west of Canada’s capital, delivered 86 recommendations this week in a unanimous verdict on the deaths of three local women, who were killed by the same man on a single morning nearly seven years ago" (Para.2). "The boldest was to have the Ontario government 'formally declare intimate partner violence as an epidemic' that requires 'significant financial investment' and deep systemic...more

Countries: Iraq
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2

"[There is a] persistence of harmful practices that discriminate against women, such as child marriage, temporary marriage (mut’ah marriage, in which marriage is terminated after a specified period), forced marriage, female genital mutilation and crimes committed in the name of 'honour'." (5).

Countries: Iran
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2

"Her father-in-law blinded her by throwing acid on her face" (para 1). "Ameneh Bahrami, was blinded by a man after rejecting his offer of marriage" (para 9).

Countries: Nepal
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2

"“Who will complain? We have seen places where life has no value. I saw with my own eyes that women who consistently refused to entertain clients or tried to flee were killed and their bodies were shoved inside gutters. A client burnt my two-year-old son’s tongue with a cigarette. He is seven years old now and still cannot speak properly. When we are rescued back and brought to rehabilitation centres, we do not speak of the past. We try to forget it. We try to convince ourselves that such horrible things did not happen to us,” says Rekha, a woman in her 30s, whose kidney was sold and then she...more

Countries: Iran
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2

"At least 26 per cent of those executed this year are members of the impoverished Baluchi ethnic minority which makes up only five per cent of the total Iranian population" (para 16). "Roya Boroumand, executive director of the centre, said: 'The disproportionate use of the death penalty against Iran's Baluchi minority epitomizes the entrenched discrimination and repression they have faced for decades and further highlights the inherent cruelty of the death penalty, which targets the most vulnerable populations in Iran and worldwide'" (para 17).

Countries: Nigeria
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2

"Many female victims are scared to run or reject the marriage proposals because some sort of ritual is attached to this strange tradition. They run the risk of being punished or may die if they don’t succumb" (para 17).

Countries: Bulgaria
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2, DV-PRACTICE-1

“NGOs criticized authorities for not tracking domestic violence cases and not keeping statistics, which NGOs claimed were needed for authorities to assess the risk of abuse turning deadly” (22).

Countries: Venezuela
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2

"[W]omen seeking justice have become the target of new policies of persecution... 'Female relatives were generally the ones to file complaints about the murder of their family members, or to seek information about their whereabouts. They were threatened and intimidated during these processes'... [O]fficers told one female relative after she filed a complaint that she should ‘leave it at that, because the family was very big and she should think about those who were left’... 'Another woman received a text message a few hours after filing a complaint that said, ‘I’m watching you from the corner. You’re going to wake up with flies in your moth’, while other 'reported they...more

Countries: Kosovo
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-2

"The Prosecution Victim Assistance Office reported an increased number of homicides in domestic violence cases" (22).