"This is a war against women," says Kalliopi Mingeirou, chief of the ending violence against women section at U.N. Women. She is talking about a new report that estimates 85,000 cases of femicide in ...

Between 2021 and 2023, 32 women were killed in Albania. Of these cases, 24 were classified as femicideImage: Luca Bruno/AP ...

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 ...

Civil society organizations, including Amnesty International Kenya, the ENDFemicideKE Movement, and the #HumanIsMyID Alliance, have called on the Ministry of Gender, Culture, the Arts and Heritage to ...

Six years ago, Greta Rico’s cousin Fernanda was found dead in a garbage bag on a street in Mexico. She had been shot three times, and there were signs of sexual violence. As her family waited for more ...

How the murder of a Chechen woman in the southern French city of Nice has resulted in local Chechen women speaking out against patriarchal traditions which normally force them to remain silent. Also ...

Italy has introduced a new law to protect women from violence. The country has now ruled that perpetrators who commit femicide may be punished with life in prison, CNN reported. Italy’s parliament ...