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While femicide in Canada affects all women, it disproportionately targets the lives of Indigenous women and girls due to historical and ongoing actions of colonialism within the state. One prominent instance of femicide occurring in Canada is the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre , which was an antifeminist mass shooting, which killed fourteen ...
Femicide is the leading cause of death for pregnant and postpartum women. [4] The risk of femicide for pregnant and postpartum women is 35% greater than for nonpregnant and nonpostpartum women. [2] As of 2020, the pregnancy-associated femicide ratio was 5.23 femicides per 100,000 live births. [2]
The percentage of women who have been raped in the United States is between 15% and 20%, with various studies disagreeing with each other. (National Violence Against Women survey in 1995, 17.6% rate; [13] a 2007 Department of Justice study on rape found 18% rate [14]). About 500 women were raped per day in the United States in 2008. [10]
Femicide, gynecide, gynaecide, or gynocide – the systematic killing of women. Feticide – the killing of an embryo or fetus. Fragging – the act of killing a fellow soldier. Gendercide – the systematic killing of members of a specific sex or gender. Geronticide – the abandonment of the elderly to die, die by suicide or be killed.
[48] Femicide is categorized as a specific type of violence against women or gender violence, which the UN described in 1979 as "a mechanism of domination, control, oppression, and power over women." [9] Femicide in Latin America, specifically, has persisted as an issue, due to factors such as organized crime, gender norms, and lack of ...
Police in Kenya’s capital hurled tear gas canisters Tuesday at hundreds of protesters angry about gender-based violence and femicide, or the killing of women, and arrested an unknown number of ...
The post Thousands march against femicide in Kenya following the January slayings of at least 14 women appeared first on TheGrio. At least 14 women have been slayed since the start of the year ...
Violence against women (VAW), also known as gender-based violence [1] [2] and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), [3] is violent acts primarily committed by men or boys against women or girls. Such violence is often considered a form of hate crime, [4] committed against persons specifically because they are of the female gender, and can ...