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News Articles: femicide

Women protest against the rape and killing of a trainee doctor at a government hospital in India this August.

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  • Global Health

U.N. report: 85,000 cases of femicide in 2023. And that's likely an undercount

These are women murdered by an intimate partner, a family member, a rapist, a stranger randomly assaulting females. Laws do not always offer protection and justice. What needs to be done?

November 25, 2024
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By:
  • Fatma Tanis
Activists march through the Central Business District of Nairobi on Jan. 27 at a demonstration calling for government action to address the murders of young women.

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  • Global Health

Murders of women in Kenya lead to a public outcry for a law on femicide

A brutally violent series of murders of women has been documented. Thousands of Kenyans are protesting to demand government action on gender-based violence.

February 18, 2024
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By:
  • Jacky Habib
A woman pays her respects as she displays a note near the entrance to a female lavatory at Sindang station in Seoul on Sept. 19, 2022. Seoul Metro employee Jeon Joo-hwan was sentenced Tuesday for stabbing his colleague to death in the metro station's women's public toilet the day before a court was set to sentence him on charges of stalking her.

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  • World

A South Korean man is sentenced to 40 years in a stalking and murder case

The man was convicted of killing a female colleague in a Seoul subway station last year, a day before he was to be sentenced on stalking charges. This has led to calls for better protection for women.

February 08, 2023
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By:
  • Se Eun Gong
This "100" on a fence marks the site of the 100th victim of femicide in France in 2019.

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  • Investigations

Mexican authorities are investigating Shanquella Robinson's death as a femicide

It's the latest development in a homicide case that continues to capture attention both in the U.S. and abroad.

December 04, 2022
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By:
  • Giulia Heyward
Flowers, balloons and a poster with the Spanish word for "justice" is part of a growing makeshift memorial for Keishla Rodriguez whose lifeless body was found in a lagoon Saturday, at the entrance of where she lived in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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  • Law

Grand Jury Indicts Puerto Rican Boxer Félix Verdejo In Death Of Pregnant Lover

The indictment on Thursday also included charges against Verdejo's accomplice, who officials say was promised some payment to help drug, kill, and dispose of Keishla Marlen Rodríguez Ortiz.

May 06, 2021
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  • Vanessa Romo
Puerto Rican boxer Felix Verdejo, seen posing before a fight in 2016, allegedly punched his 27-year-old lover in the face, drugged her, then restrained her arms and legs before shooting her and dumping her into a river.

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  • Law

Puerto Rican Boxer Félix Verdejo Charged With Killing Pregnant Woman

A witness told the FBI the former Olympic boxer killed Keishla Marlen Rodriguez after she told him she was pregnant with his child.

May 04, 2021
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Demonstrators in front of the prosecutor's office in Lima, Peru, protest gender violence and femicide on June 20.

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  • Global Health

The Women Of Peru Are Suffering From A 'Shadow Pandemic'

That's how the United Nations characterizes the violence against women that, based on past evidence, has been exacerbated by coronavirus lockdowns.

September 10, 2020
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By:
  • Maria Godoy

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