The latest report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and UN Women, released on the International Day for the ...

As femicide numbers in EU states show no sign of decreasing, a number of states have enacted laws to specifically address the murder of women. The European Parliament is urging for a recognition of ...

Black women are disproportionately affected by intimate partner violence, which is a public health crisis that is taking a toll on their mental and emotional well-being, and must be addressed by the ...

As poverty deepens and the Taliban curtails women's rights, domestic violence in Afghanistan is becoming more dangerous, less visible and harder to escape.

With recent outrage in Argentina over the brutal murder of 14-year-old Chiara Paez, the conversation about femicide has been reignited in mainstream media. The young girl was allegedly beaten and ...

Femicide is the murder of a woman because of her gender. Matricide, or the killing of one’s own mother, is just one of an array of femicide crimes, which include “honor killings” by partners or family ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Anastasia Moloney BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Colombia's new law on femicide is a key step to combat violence against ...

The killing of Shanquella Robinson is being investigated as a femicide, an unfamiliar term for many in the United States as this gender-motivated crime has not been defined by US legislation despite ...

Nairobi Woman Representative Esther Passaris has revealed that one of her supporters was attacked, robbed, raped and stabbed shortly after attending an ODM rally in Dandora.She said the incident ...

Two women have been brutally murdered in Cape Town within 48 hours highlight the alarming rise in femicide.