Countries: Sudan
Variables: SUICIDE-PRACTICE-1

"The make-shift displacement camp she lives in is getting cold as winter takes hold. The bone-chilling experiences survived by the women and girls around her makes life even colder. 'I know 36 women my age who have been raped, sexually harassed and beaten,' she [Dr. Shaza] says. 'As people fled the village, some girls jumped into the Nile to commit suicide - I know four of them personally.' Reports of women killing themselves to avoid rape circulated online as the RSF ambushed town after town in eastern Al Jazira" (p. 9-12). "'After beating us, they locked us in the room and raped our cousins,' one young man from the Al...more

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: Afghanistan
Variables: SUICIDE-PRACTICE-1

"The film crew found some women had committed suicide by setting themselves on fire or drinking bleach to escape domestic violence after the Taliban, which swept back into power in September last year" (para 30).

Countries: Kenya
Variables: SUICIDE-PRACTICE-1

"Multivariate logistic regressions were used to investigate the link between psychological, sexual, and emotional [intimate partner violence] and women’s mental and physical health. Results suggest that... all types of [intimate partner violence] emerged key correlates in this context. In particular, women’s experiences of [intimate partner violence] were associated with... higher odds of gynecological and reproductive health issues, psychological distress (based on K-10), depression, suicidality, and substance use" (para 1). "The purpose of this study was to explore whether women’s experiences of recent [intimate partner violence] were associated with the physical and mental health of women in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya" (para 33).

Countries: Azerbaijan
Variables: SUICIDE-PRACTICE-1

"The recent rise in the number of reported cases of suicide by survivors of violence against women in Azerbaijan has prompted women activists to publicly protest and to call on the government to address the growing violence and become a party to the Istanbul Convention" (Para.6). "On 15 February 2021, opposition activist Mahammad Mirzali, who lives in France, was blackmailed using an intimate video of his sister. An anonymous social media account sent him a video of intimate footage taken in his sister’s bedroom and threatened to publish it if he did not stop criticizing the authorities. On 5 March, the video was posted on several Telegram channels and sent...more

Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: SUICIDE-PRACTICE-1

"The Taliban’s policies and public statements regarding women’s role in public and private life were also perceived as impacting their lives at home; the UN has documented an increase in domestic violence. Participants emphasized that this increase in domestic violence means that there is 'neither security at home or outside.' Several focus group participants highlighted that the deteriorating situation for women has led to an increase in suicides." (para 4).

Countries: Bulgaria
Variables: SUICIDE-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). “According to the Bulgarian Fund for Women, which provided free legal and psychological consultations, domestic violence was still a taboo outside big cities where there was less access to counseling and protection services.” (22).

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).

Countries: Bulgaria
Variables: SUICIDE-PRACTICE-1, DV-PRACTICE-1, DV-LAW-1

“In a published case, the appellate court reversed a lower court's murder conviction of a man who systematically abused his girlfriend. On the night of the woman's death, the defendant beat the woman for an hour. The court record states that he hit her with his hands and slammed her head against the wall. It describes how both the blood stains on the wall and an examination of injuries demonstrated that the beating was extremely violent. At 3 a.m., the defendant stopped beating the victim and started to leave the apartment. The victim ran to the open window and jumped out of it. She died immediately. The lower court concluded...more

Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: SUICIDE-PRACTICE-1

"One [woman] admitted to having suicidal thoughts. Another said: 'We exist, but it is not a life.' Then the fourth stood up and said: 'Everyone knows there is active fighting in Ukraine, but here people are dying, especially women'." (para 6).

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).

Countries: Italy
Variables: SUICIDE-PRACTICE-1

"Between 2006 and 2007, few cases were reported in the news and to the judicial Authorities. Cases of 'honour crimes' and forced marriage occurred in the period under consideration...On September 6, 2007, an immigrant Indian woman, aged 31, committed suicide, allegedly to avoid an arranged marriage" (30).

Countries: Italy
Variables: SUICIDE-PRACTICE-1

"Between 2006 and 2007, few cases were reported in the news and to the judicial Authorities. Cases of 'honour crimes' and forced marriage occurred in the period under consideration...On September 6, 2007, an immigrant Indian woman, aged 31, committed suicide, allegedly to avoid an arranged marriage" (30).

Countries: United States
Variables: SUICIDE-PRACTICE-1

"But for the purpose of developing statistics for the report, given the low quality of data, they counted as femicides the deaths of women that the forensic sciences office and the police department classified as homicide. Áviles acknowledges that the approach is imperfect. It leaves out women who commit suicide under the stress of an abusive partner, for example" (para 13). "Furthermore, almost all of the murders reported in the press were misidentified in the registry. Forty-one of those murders designated 'type of death; as suicide, yet simultaneously had a 'cause of death' that indicated homicide" (para 24).

Countries: India
Variables: SUICIDE-PRACTICE-1

"Some careful and subsequent data work by Anderson and Ray showed that excess female mortality is a more universal phenomenon which holds for all age groups in these countries. They provided detailed decomposition of the missing women by age and cause of death and a particularly sinister observation was that the number of excess female deaths from “intentional injuries” or reported violence was disturbingly high in India" (para 5).