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They attended protest marches, court hearings and interviewed the prosecutor in charge of investigating such cases in Mexico state, the nation’s femicide leader. They talked to victims of violence, ...
The man accused of what police called a femicide in Aug. 2024 will have his charge upgraded to first-degree murder. Michael Zabarylo, 55, is accused of killing Jennifer Zabarylo, 47, in what ...
Earlier this year, Kenyan women and men took to the streets to demand action on femicide. It never occurred to anyone that they would have to take to the streets again. Unbelievable as it may seem ...
It is possible that there are unreported cases of femicide in addition to the four (4) young women who have already lost their lives to it. For many Kenyan women, the current situation is akin to ...
The new change typifies femicide in a specific article, and no longer as just another variation of homicide. Penalties went up from 12 to 30 years of imprisonment to 20 to 40 years.
In May 2024, Rebecca Cheptegi, a Ugandan marathon runner, was burned to death by her boyfriend. Cheptegi’s murder is one of the several cases of femicide in African countries. Femicide is the ...
Inadequate resources and the poor implementation of laws that are supposed to protect women are hampering the efforts against the scourge of femicide and intimate partner violence (IPV).
Behind the numbers: A reality check Shortly before Christmas last year, South Africans were horrified by yet another ghastly case of femicide when a video of a man from KwaZulu-Natal went viral on ...