Femicide

Gangsters killed Maria’s sister in Honduras. A note on the door told her she was next …
Maria and her family were given help to start a new life in safety, but she is just one of a quarter of a million people in the country internally displaced by violence
Sarah Johnson in Tegucigalpa
21, Jun, 2022 @6:15 AM

‘Femicide nation’: murder of young woman casts spotlight on Mexico’s gender violence crisis
Discovery of teen’s body has sparked a nationwide outcry and protests, following the murders of 1,000 women last year
Tom Phillips and Lillian Perlmutter in Mexico City
26, Apr, 2022 @4:00 PM

The new wave of female film-makers confronting Mexico’s violence against women
After years of on-screen successes led by the likes of Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón, female directors are making their mark with urgent, disquieting cinema
Caitlin Quinlan
19, Apr, 2022 @11:36 AM

The week in audio: Fallen Women; Iain Dale; Kevin O’Sullivan; A House in History and more
A chilling podcast explores 17 cases of women who fell to their deaths in suspicious circumstances
Miranda Sawyer
16, Apr, 2022 @4:00 PM

Turkish women’s group targeted as Erdoğan fans flames of ‘culture war’
Attempt to close We Will Stop Femicide on moral grounds criticised as a ‘grotesque’ and divisive step as election looms
Ruth Michaelson and Deniz Barış Narlı
14, Apr, 2022 @5:00 AM

Suicide by domestic violence: call to count the hidden toll of women’s lives
Hundreds of suicides a year could be linked to abuse at home. Experts want to collect better data to bring about real change
Yvonne Roberts
27, Feb, 2022 @8:00 AM

Femicide Census: there’s a disturbing reason for the falling number of murders
A woman can be killed when she tries to leave her violent partner, which happened less often during the Covid lockdowns
Karen Ingala Smith and Clarrie O'Callaghan
27, Feb, 2022 @8:00 AM

Man who killed author is found guilty of wife’s murder six years earlier
Ian Stewart given whole-life order for murdering first wife in Cambridgeshire six years before killing Helen Bailey
Alexandra Topping
09, Feb, 2022 @5:51 PM

Ian Stewart: the narcissistic serial killer who fooled everyone
Analysis: psychologists suggest how ‘parasitic’ killer was capable of murdering two women and getting away with it for years
Jamie Grierson
09, Feb, 2022 @4:24 PM

Ashling Murphy’s killing has shocked Ireland – but will it change a culture of misogyny? | Caelainn Hogan
The attack on the 23-year-old teacher has been described as ‘random’ – but it’s forcing a collective reckoning with violence that is anything but, says journalist Caelainn Hogan
Caelainn Hogan
18, Jan, 2022 @5:31 PM

Review of mother and daughter’s murders could save lives, family hopes
Relatives want an official review of the killing of Laura Mortimer and Ella Dalby to spark better collaboration between police, social services and others
Yvonne Roberts
15, Jan, 2022 @2:00 PM

Spain says it is first in Europe to officially count all femicides
Statistics on gender-based violence broadened beyond cases involving partners or exes
Ashifa Kassam in Madrid
31, Dec, 2021 @5:51 PM
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