Latest items for SUICIDE-DATA-1
Dec. 13, 2024, 10:27 p.m.
Countries: Australia
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"'Sexual misconduct remains a systemic issue for the ADF,'' the report reads. 'This has been the case for decades, and it will continue unless the ADF commits to deep, systemic reform.' Ex-serving women died by suicide at twice the rate of the general female population" (para 11-13).
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"'Sexual misconduct remains a systemic issue for the ADF,'' the report reads. 'This has been the case for decades, and it will continue unless the ADF commits to deep, systemic reform.' Ex-serving women died by suicide at twice the rate of the general female population" (para 11-13).
Dec. 12, 2024, 1:48 p.m.
Countries: Turkey
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"Only 31, she was elected in Batman, a deeply patriarchal and conservative city that in the past has been known for its alarmingly high suicide rates among young women" (para 11).
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"Only 31, she was elected in Batman, a deeply patriarchal and conservative city that in the past has been known for its alarmingly high suicide rates among young women" (para 11).
Dec. 6, 2024, 6:57 p.m.
Countries: Turkey
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"An additional 248 cases of 'suspicious deaths', described as 'suicide' by authorities, have been attributed to a third party by feminist groups, which note the rise of defenestration incidents in Turkey" (para 7).
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"An additional 248 cases of 'suspicious deaths', described as 'suicide' by authorities, have been attributed to a third party by feminist groups, which note the rise of defenestration incidents in Turkey" (para 7).
Dec. 6, 2024, 10:55 a.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"'I had two options: to marry an addict and live a life of misery or take my own life,' said the 18-year-old in a phone interview from her home in central Ghor province. 'I chose the latter.' It was not an isolated act of desperation. Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, there has been a disturbing surge in the number of women taking their own lives or attempting to do so, data collected from public hospitals and mental health clinics across a third of Afghanistan’s provinces shows. Taliban authorities have not published data on suicides and have barred health workers from sharing up-to-date statistics...more
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"'I had two options: to marry an addict and live a life of misery or take my own life,' said the 18-year-old in a phone interview from her home in central Ghor province. 'I chose the latter.' It was not an isolated act of desperation. Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, there has been a disturbing surge in the number of women taking their own lives or attempting to do so, data collected from public hospitals and mental health clinics across a third of Afghanistan’s provinces shows. Taliban authorities have not published data on suicides and have barred health workers from sharing up-to-date statistics...more
Dec. 5, 2024, 4:37 p.m.
Countries: Norway
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"There is a high suicide rate and likelihood of self-harm among women prisoners" (14).
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"There is a high suicide rate and likelihood of self-harm among women prisoners" (14).
Nov. 22, 2023, 5:13 p.m.
Countries: Indonesia
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"[Y]oung women and girls with traumatic experiences with the mandatory jilbab regulations said that they were uncomfortable with the peer pressure and the bullying they had faced to wear the jilbab… Two have tried to take their lives" (79).
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"[Y]oung women and girls with traumatic experiences with the mandatory jilbab regulations said that they were uncomfortable with the peer pressure and the bullying they had faced to wear the jilbab… Two have tried to take their lives" (79).
Sept. 26, 2023, 10:17 a.m.
Countries: Australia
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1, MURDER-DATA-1
"The bodies of three people – including an Aboriginal woman and her baby – were found last month north of Alice Springs; the case is being investigated as a murder-suicide" (para 2).
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1, MURDER-DATA-1
"The bodies of three people – including an Aboriginal woman and her baby – were found last month north of Alice Springs; the case is being investigated as a murder-suicide" (para 2).
Jan. 12, 2023, 7:24 p.m.
Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"Maternal suicide accounted for four in ten deaths occurring within a year after the end of pregnancy, and was the leading cause of death." (para 6).
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"Maternal suicide accounted for four in ten deaths occurring within a year after the end of pregnancy, and was the leading cause of death." (para 6).
Dec. 19, 2022, 12:56 p.m.
Countries: Bulgaria
Variables: SUICIDE-PRACTICE-1, SUICIDE-DATA-1, MURDER-PRACTICE-1, MURDER-DATA-1
“As violence in general (and honour-related violence in particular) is not tolerated by citizens, the majority of the Bulgarian population (93%) consider honour-related acts to be inadmissible forms of cruelty that cannot be justified by any arguments.” (10).
Variables: SUICIDE-PRACTICE-1, SUICIDE-DATA-1, MURDER-PRACTICE-1, MURDER-DATA-1
“As violence in general (and honour-related violence in particular) is not tolerated by citizens, the majority of the Bulgarian population (93%) consider honour-related acts to be inadmissible forms of cruelty that cannot be justified by any arguments.” (10).
Dec. 19, 2022, 12:53 p.m.
Countries: Bulgaria
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1, MURDER-DATA-2
“Between half a percent and 13% of the Bulgarian population confess that they know about forms of honour related violence in their own family or other families they keep in touch with…" (9). “Between 3% and 4% of Bulgarian citizens declare that they would exercise an act that is in reality some form of honour-related violence in order to protect the family’s reputation. On the other hand, 12% have imposed restrictions or prohibitions in situations in which they believed that the family’s good name had been threatened...” (10).
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1, MURDER-DATA-2
“Between half a percent and 13% of the Bulgarian population confess that they know about forms of honour related violence in their own family or other families they keep in touch with…" (9). “Between 3% and 4% of Bulgarian citizens declare that they would exercise an act that is in reality some form of honour-related violence in order to protect the family’s reputation. On the other hand, 12% have imposed restrictions or prohibitions in situations in which they believed that the family’s good name had been threatened...” (10).
Dec. 19, 2022, 12:19 p.m.
Countries: Bulgaria
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
“In the six statistical regions in Bulgaria it was observed a high prevalence of suicide attempts and completed suicides among the rural population, compared with urban areas. Leading methods of suicide are poisoning with drugs and hanging, while the main reasons of suicidal behaviour throughout the study period there were conflicts in the micro environment (46.8% - 54.3%). The presence of illness – physical or mental (from 20.3% to 27.7%) is the second group of prominent reasons whose relative weight increases.” (40)
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
“In the six statistical regions in Bulgaria it was observed a high prevalence of suicide attempts and completed suicides among the rural population, compared with urban areas. Leading methods of suicide are poisoning with drugs and hanging, while the main reasons of suicidal behaviour throughout the study period there were conflicts in the micro environment (46.8% - 54.3%). The presence of illness – physical or mental (from 20.3% to 27.7%) is the second group of prominent reasons whose relative weight increases.” (40)
Dec. 19, 2022, 12:09 p.m.
Countries: Bulgaria
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
“The mean age of suicide completion for the sample was 55.62 years, significantly lower in males (52.67 years) than in females (60.52 years) (t = −2.071, df = 75, p = 0.042)-Table 3. Divorced or single patients demonstrated significantly lower mean age (45.97 years) compared to married/cohabiting ones (60.41 years) [F(2, 74) =17.682, p < 0.001]” (3).
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
“The mean age of suicide completion for the sample was 55.62 years, significantly lower in males (52.67 years) than in females (60.52 years) (t = −2.071, df = 75, p = 0.042)-Table 3. Divorced or single patients demonstrated significantly lower mean age (45.97 years) compared to married/cohabiting ones (60.41 years) [F(2, 74) =17.682, p < 0.001]” (3).
Dec. 19, 2022, 11:29 a.m.
Countries: Bulgaria
Variables: SUICIDE-PRACTICE-1, SUICIDE-DATA-1
“Nearly half of suicide attempts, as well as the successful ones (about 45 percent), are due to family conflicts, according to experts from the NCFPH.” (Para. 6).
Variables: SUICIDE-PRACTICE-1, SUICIDE-DATA-1
“Nearly half of suicide attempts, as well as the successful ones (about 45 percent), are due to family conflicts, according to experts from the NCFPH.” (Para. 6).
June 21, 2022, 8:35 a.m.
Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1, DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"The Committee welcomes the adoption in June 2018 of the first female offender strategy, aimed at diverting the most vulnerable women in the criminal justice system away from custody through the provision of tailored support, in England and Wales. However, the Committee regrets that the strategy does not cover all administrations of the State party, including Scotland, where the rate of imprisonment of women continues to be high, due to the rise in the use of custodial sentences. It remains concerned about the inadequacy of mental health-care services in prisons and at the disproportionate rates of self-harm and suicide among women" (14).
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1, DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"The Committee welcomes the adoption in June 2018 of the first female offender strategy, aimed at diverting the most vulnerable women in the criminal justice system away from custody through the provision of tailored support, in England and Wales. However, the Committee regrets that the strategy does not cover all administrations of the State party, including Scotland, where the rate of imprisonment of women continues to be high, due to the rise in the use of custodial sentences. It remains concerned about the inadequacy of mental health-care services in prisons and at the disproportionate rates of self-harm and suicide among women" (14).
June 14, 2022, 5:24 p.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"... Studies show that LGBTI persons are at greater risk of marginalization and poor wellbeing than the rest of the Danish population. Especially for women who have sex with women, the prevalence of cancer, suicide and suicide attempts is higher than in the general population" (9).
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"... Studies show that LGBTI persons are at greater risk of marginalization and poor wellbeing than the rest of the Danish population. Especially for women who have sex with women, the prevalence of cancer, suicide and suicide attempts is higher than in the general population" (9).
June 7, 2022, 10:47 a.m.
Countries: China
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"The Chinese Government attaches great importance to the problem of suicide among rural women mentioned by the Committee in its previous concluding observations; it has held a special meeting to examine closely the causes of suicide among rural women and possible countermeasures. According to a sample survey analysis, the leading causes of women’s suicide include depression or other mental disorders, family conflicts, economic difficulties and women’s serious illness" (54).
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"The Chinese Government attaches great importance to the problem of suicide among rural women mentioned by the Committee in its previous concluding observations; it has held a special meeting to examine closely the causes of suicide among rural women and possible countermeasures. According to a sample survey analysis, the leading causes of women’s suicide include depression or other mental disorders, family conflicts, economic difficulties and women’s serious illness" (54).
March 25, 2022, 8:54 p.m.
Countries: United Arab Emirates
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"Reports of migrant worker suicides or attempted suicides continued. In some cases, observers linked the suicides to poor working and living conditions, low wages, and financial strain caused by heavy debts owed to originating-country labor recruitment agencies. Dubai police and the Dubai Foundation for Women and Children, a quasi-governmental organization, conducted vocational training programs with some elements aimed at decreasing suicidal behavior" (42). A program specifically intended to train women to decrease suicidal behavior may indicate that many of those attempting suicide are female (JLR-CODER COMMENT).
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"Reports of migrant worker suicides or attempted suicides continued. In some cases, observers linked the suicides to poor working and living conditions, low wages, and financial strain caused by heavy debts owed to originating-country labor recruitment agencies. Dubai police and the Dubai Foundation for Women and Children, a quasi-governmental organization, conducted vocational training programs with some elements aimed at decreasing suicidal behavior" (42). A program specifically intended to train women to decrease suicidal behavior may indicate that many of those attempting suicide are female (JLR-CODER COMMENT).
Dec. 3, 2021, 6:25 p.m.
Countries: Pakistan
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"A study by the PIMS burn center reported a total of 75 female self-immolation patients in comparison to just 18 male patients over a two-year period. Sixty-one percent of female patients were married, and a majority of them hailed from rural backgrounds with restricted access to education" (para 4). "Marital conflicts and domestic violence are often cited as triggers. A study measuring self-inflicted burns among 154 patients in Jamshoro, a rural district in the southern province of Sindh, indicated that 63 percent of female patients attempted suicide by burning in comparison to 37 percent of male patients. Most female patients reported “family quarrels and marital disharmony” as precipitating factors" (para...more
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"A study by the PIMS burn center reported a total of 75 female self-immolation patients in comparison to just 18 male patients over a two-year period. Sixty-one percent of female patients were married, and a majority of them hailed from rural backgrounds with restricted access to education" (para 4). "Marital conflicts and domestic violence are often cited as triggers. A study measuring self-inflicted burns among 154 patients in Jamshoro, a rural district in the southern province of Sindh, indicated that 63 percent of female patients attempted suicide by burning in comparison to 37 percent of male patients. Most female patients reported “family quarrels and marital disharmony” as precipitating factors" (para...more
Nov. 18, 2021, 10:13 a.m.
Countries: South Korea
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"When Ms. Lee reported that Mr. Chang kissed and groped her in the car that night, her superiors tried to bury the complaint, according to Defense Ministry investigators. The military did not bring formal charges against Mr. Chang until after Ms. Lee, 23, took her own life on May 21. Mr. Chang has since admitted to the assault and is facing trial" (Para 3)."It has become what some say is a pattern in South Korea: One female soldier after another has taken her own life in recent years after they reported being sexually assaulted in the military. Hundreds of sexual assaults are reported every year. At least four female victims...more
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"When Ms. Lee reported that Mr. Chang kissed and groped her in the car that night, her superiors tried to bury the complaint, according to Defense Ministry investigators. The military did not bring formal charges against Mr. Chang until after Ms. Lee, 23, took her own life on May 21. Mr. Chang has since admitted to the assault and is facing trial" (Para 3)."It has become what some say is a pattern in South Korea: One female soldier after another has taken her own life in recent years after they reported being sexually assaulted in the military. Hundreds of sexual assaults are reported every year. At least four female victims...more
Oct. 15, 2021, 9:09 a.m.
Countries: Qatar
Variables: MISA-PRACTICE-1, SUICIDE-DATA-1
"Women interviewed for the report described how their guardians denied them permission to drive, travel, study, work or marry someone of their own choosing. Some spoke of how this had affected their mental health, contributing to self-harm, depression, stress and suicidal thoughts" (para 5).
Variables: MISA-PRACTICE-1, SUICIDE-DATA-1
"Women interviewed for the report described how their guardians denied them permission to drive, travel, study, work or marry someone of their own choosing. Some spoke of how this had affected their mental health, contributing to self-harm, depression, stress and suicidal thoughts" (para 5).
Oct. 4, 2021, 9:37 a.m.
Countries: United States
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"Gender-based violence is a major contributor to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), suicide, and other mental health and social issues among military service members and veterans" (para 7).
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"Gender-based violence is a major contributor to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), suicide, and other mental health and social issues among military service members and veterans" (para 7).
Sept. 14, 2021, 8:03 a.m.
Countries: El Salvador
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-1, LRW-PRACTICE-2, SUICIDE-DATA-1
"In El Salvador, having a child at age fourteen isn’t simply a cause for shame in the eyes of a religious community. It also increases the odds of a life lived in crushing poverty, of marginal education and employment, of vulnerability to the violence and chaos that scores the lives of the poorest Salvadorans. Some girls, faced with that prospect, opt to kill themselves. Government statistics reveal that three out of eight maternal deaths in El Salvador are the result of suicide among pregnant girls under nineteen. Many of these girls have suffered rape and sexual abuse, and are silenced by the shame of these humiliations, in addition to the...more
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-1, LRW-PRACTICE-2, SUICIDE-DATA-1
"In El Salvador, having a child at age fourteen isn’t simply a cause for shame in the eyes of a religious community. It also increases the odds of a life lived in crushing poverty, of marginal education and employment, of vulnerability to the violence and chaos that scores the lives of the poorest Salvadorans. Some girls, faced with that prospect, opt to kill themselves. Government statistics reveal that three out of eight maternal deaths in El Salvador are the result of suicide among pregnant girls under nineteen. Many of these girls have suffered rape and sexual abuse, and are silenced by the shame of these humiliations, in addition to the...more
July 23, 2021, 12:51 p.m.
Countries: India
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"Baljit is spare with the details but admits she contemplated suicide: once before marriage when her husband was demanding money, other times after he left her. Baljit still says she doesn’t feel like living. Her mother, whose imagined grief stopped her from committing suicide before, died in May. 'What else remains?' she asks. 'I am alone.' Of abandoned brides like herself, Baljit says: 'We are like dead bodies walking. We have no place in society. We can’t live and we can’t even die'" (Para 59-61). "When Ekampreet was 3, Sarbjeet tried to commit suicide by drinking rat poison. Five years later, she tried again by slitting her wrists. She went...more
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"Baljit is spare with the details but admits she contemplated suicide: once before marriage when her husband was demanding money, other times after he left her. Baljit still says she doesn’t feel like living. Her mother, whose imagined grief stopped her from committing suicide before, died in May. 'What else remains?' she asks. 'I am alone.' Of abandoned brides like herself, Baljit says: 'We are like dead bodies walking. We have no place in society. We can’t live and we can’t even die'" (Para 59-61). "When Ekampreet was 3, Sarbjeet tried to commit suicide by drinking rat poison. Five years later, she tried again by slitting her wrists. She went...more
July 9, 2021, 11:33 p.m.
Countries: Colombia
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"One underage girl raped by police was so traumatised she killed herself on Tuesday, it added. She was seized and raped by four officers when returning from a protest in Popayan, activists charge" (Para 3).
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"One underage girl raped by police was so traumatised she killed herself on Tuesday, it added. She was seized and raped by four officers when returning from a protest in Popayan, activists charge" (Para 3).
June 29, 2021, 3:43 p.m.
Countries: Saudi Arabia
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"The young women recruited for domestic work are between 16 and 25 years old... These girls are alone... I’ve had phone conversations where I was trying to calm down young women who wanted to kill themselves" (para 14).
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"The young women recruited for domestic work are between 16 and 25 years old... These girls are alone... I’ve had phone conversations where I was trying to calm down young women who wanted to kill themselves" (para 14).
June 29, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Countries: Lebanon
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"In 2008, Human Rights Watch found that migrant domestic workers in Lebanon were dying at a rate of more than one per week from suicide or in failed escapes" (para 24).
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"In 2008, Human Rights Watch found that migrant domestic workers in Lebanon were dying at a rate of more than one per week from suicide or in failed escapes" (para 24).
March 13, 2021, 4:47 p.m.
Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"women of minority and ethnic communities suffer higher rates of depression and mental illness, while women of Asian descent have higher suicide and self-harm rates" (13).
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"women of minority and ethnic communities suffer higher rates of depression and mental illness, while women of Asian descent have higher suicide and self-harm rates" (13).
Jan. 31, 2021, 3:04 p.m.
Countries: Australia
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"This is evidenced by rates of suicide attempts, which are five times higher for LGBTI young people aged 16 to 27, six times higher for people over 16 with an intersex variation and eleven times higher for transgender adults" (15).
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"This is evidenced by rates of suicide attempts, which are five times higher for LGBTI young people aged 16 to 27, six times higher for people over 16 with an intersex variation and eleven times higher for transgender adults" (15).
Jan. 18, 2021, 2:43 p.m.
Countries: Iraq
Variables: SUICIDE-PRACTICE-1, SUICIDE-DATA-1, DSFMF-PRACTICE-4
"Several advocates said that even if the girls had been sexually assaulted, they might never admit it, particularly not to a stranger. Some advocates said they were concerned that the shame surrounding rape might drive victims to suicide, though Ms. Saeed and other community leaders insisted that there had been no suicide attempts among the estimated 150 Yazidi escapees. The threat of forced marriage led D. A. to consider killing herself, but instead she decided to try another escape" (para 34-35).
Variables: SUICIDE-PRACTICE-1, SUICIDE-DATA-1, DSFMF-PRACTICE-4
"Several advocates said that even if the girls had been sexually assaulted, they might never admit it, particularly not to a stranger. Some advocates said they were concerned that the shame surrounding rape might drive victims to suicide, though Ms. Saeed and other community leaders insisted that there had been no suicide attempts among the estimated 150 Yazidi escapees. The threat of forced marriage led D. A. to consider killing herself, but instead she decided to try another escape" (para 34-35).
Jan. 1, 2021, 3:52 p.m.
Countries: United States
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"In other cases, women’s murders were misclassified. For example, by the police department’s own account, obtained by Kilómetro Cero, police officer Francés Pagan Resto was shot in the head by the father of her child, another officer named Jonathan Vargas Semidey, who then shot and killed himself. Yet a medical examiner classified Pagan Resto’s death as a suicide" (para 17).
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"In other cases, women’s murders were misclassified. For example, by the police department’s own account, obtained by Kilómetro Cero, police officer Francés Pagan Resto was shot in the head by the father of her child, another officer named Jonathan Vargas Semidey, who then shot and killed himself. Yet a medical examiner classified Pagan Resto’s death as a suicide" (para 17).