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The rates of femicide differ depending on the specific country, but of the countries with the top 25 highest femicide rates, 50% are in Latin America, with number one being El Salvador. Also included in the top 25 are seven European countries, three Asian countries, and one African country, South Africa .
A graph of South Africa's murder rate (annual murders per 100,000 people) spanning the century from 1915 to 2023. The murder rate increased rapidly towards the end of Apartheid, reaching a peak in 1993. It then decreased until bottoming out at 30 per 100,000 in 2011, but steadily increased again to 44 per 100,000 in 2023 after a brief drop in 2020.
There are deviations in sexual violence rates in different provinces of South Africa. In a study [ 9 ] of three South African provinces ( Eastern Cape , Mpumalanga , and Limpopo ) in 1997, 6.8% of women surveyed in Mpumalanga said they had been raped during their lifetime, 5.0% of women surveyed in Limpopo had been raped, and 4.5% of women in ...
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In September 2019, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex secretly visited the post office where Mrwetyana was murdered, while touring South Africa with her husband, Prince Harry. [46] In that same month, hundreds of South Africans gathered to protest against gender-based violence in Times Square , New York City after the news of Mrwetyana's death.
The sex ratio in the age group is now 915 girls to 1,000 boys (109 boys for every 100 girls), the lowest since records began in 1961. [ 9 ] There have been reports of femicide in Ciudad Juárez , Chihuahua, Mexico , [ 10 ] where 411 assassinations of women were qualified as serial and/or of sexual characteristic, by domestic violence, intimate ...
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Femicide by country (5 C, 4 P) Female genital mutilation by country ... Violence against women in South Africa (32 P) Violence against women in South Korea (2 C, 13 P)