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Intimate partner femicide is the most common form of femicide, [124] and high violence and crime rates in these countries also contribute to this issue. There is a lack of an organized system to record information and statistical data to support this issue.
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.
Femicide is defined as the systematic killing of women for various reasons, usually cultural. The word is attested from the 1820s. [3] The most widespread form of femicide is in the form of gender-selective infanticide in cultures with strong preferences for males such as China and India.
Femicide, broadly defined as the murder of a woman motivated by gender, is a prevalent issue in Latin America. [1] [2] In 2016, 14 of the top 25 nations with the highest global femicide rates were Latin American or Caribbean states. [1]
80% of women surveyed in rural Egypt said that beatings were common and often justified, particularly if the woman refused to have sex with her husband. [13] Up to two-thirds of women in certain communities in Nigeria's Lagos State say they are victims to domestic violence. [14] In Turkey 42% of women over 15 have suffered physical or sexual ...
Most of these women were between 15 and 44 years old. This was a large number of Native American women who were sterilized, equivalent to 452,000 non-Native American women. Many of these sterilization procedures violated the US District Court's definition of informed consent: "voluntary, knowing assent from the individual on whom any ...
Phulmoni Dasi rape case (1889); Mathura rape case (1972); Violence against women during the partition of India (1989); Rape during the Kashmir conflict (1989); Ruchika Girhotra case (1990)
Femicides often occur in the context of domestic violence, such as honor killings or dowry killings. For statistical purposes, femicide is often defined as any killing of a woman. The top countries by rate of femicide are El Salvador, Jamaica, Guatemala, South Africa and Mexico (data from 2004 to 2009). [391]