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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Femicide"”.
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Femicide in Mexico: From Malinche to Modern Women
… El Paso Times journalists who have researched femicides (systematic murders of women) (Valdez 105). "nearly 750 girls and women have been murdered in Juarez since 1993, and 36 were reported missing this year (2009)"* (elpasotimes.com ). To say that these women were killed does not adequately …
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Perpetrators of intimate femicide : a study of forensic records
Intimate femicide is prevalent in South Africa, and represents the lethal end of a continuum of male perpetrated intimate partner violence. For various reasons attention has only begun to be paid to intimate femicide in the last three decades. International research has established existing rates …
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Towards a loving justice: Kinship activism against femicide in Argentina
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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Towards a Historical Materialist Analysis of Femicide in Post-Conflict Guatemala
… the past two decades, with a conversation on femicide, the targeted killing of women by men based on their gender, emerging in recent years between activists, politicians and practitioners alike. To respond to the crisis around femicide, in 2008, the Law on Femicide and Other Forms of Violence …
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Domestic violence fatality review teams: collaborative efforts to prevent intimate partner femicide
Intimate partner femicide, the murder of a woman by her current or former partner, is a serious international problem. Given the gravity of intimate partner femicides, domestic violence fatality review teams have emerged in the North America as collaborative settings aimed at understanding and …
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Women’s Rights in Limited Democracies: Comparative Study of Femicide in Turkey and Bulgaria
… degree of similarities and differences in the femicide numbers. I investigate the contributing factors behind violence against women in two since 2001, using a novel quantitative dataset compiled from international sources. Both countries are categorized as having deficiencies in democracy, yet …
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An exploration of the discourses women survivors of intimate partner violence draw on to understand intimate femicide
This study is about intimate femicide: The murder of a woman by a male intimate partner, namely her husband, boyfriend (dating or cohabiting), ex-husband (divorced or separated), ex-boyfriend or a rejected would-be lover. Intimate femicide has been identified as a dire social problem in South …
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Ni una más. International cooperation against gender-based discrimination: the femicide case in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico
The femicide in Ciudad Juárez is a story made of extreme violence against women for different reasons, by different actors, under different circumstances, and following different behavioural patterns. All within a gender discrimination frame based on the idea that women are inferior, …
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Intimate femicide-suicide in South Africa : the epidemiology of male suicide following the killing of an intimate partner
The few studies on intimate femicide-suicide have mainly been conducted in developed countries. These studies have found that a disproportionate number of male partners commit suicide after killing their female partner. However, not much is known about intimate femicide-suicide in developing …
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Mobilising restless radicals: the #AmINext movement and the formation of feminist digital counterpublics against gender-based violence and femicide in South Africa
… discourse of gender-based violence (GBV) and femicide in South Africa. The prevalent research on feminist hashtag activism has made critical links between the use of social media and the platforming of women's rage as a form of mobilising protests against GBV and femicide. However, less …
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Implementing the National Strategic Plan on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide in South Africa: The challenges of policy implementation
… Strategic Plan of Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (NSP GBVF) in South Africa. The NSP was introduced in 2020 as a multistakeholder policy to address the high levels of GBV in the country, however, has failed to reach a number of its targets in the first three years. Six semi-structured …
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A new beginning: a case for establishing a sexual and gender-based violence truth commission in South Africa
… high sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and femicide rates. This is particularly true for South Africa, having hosted two presidential summits on the topic, having produced a national action plan (NAP) detailing intervention and prevention strategies, as well as having nationwide protests …
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A social community caregiving approach towards gender-based violence and femicide : the role of men in Thembisa Uniting Reformed Church
… Before Covid 19 pandemic, the issue of GVB and Femicide in South Africa was a thorny issue that needed to be address by most public institutions including the Church. Since the normal daily lives of so many people were impacted by the enforced restrictions by the authority in the Country. …
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Violence against women : epidemiology and pathology of femicides and suspected sexual homicides in Cape Town : a 10-year follow-up study
… violence are the intentional killing of a woman (femicide) and rape, or the combination of both in the form of r ape homicide, preferably termed 'sexual homicide' in this study. Motivation: Martin's research in 1999 reported a rape homicide incidence rate of 12.3/1000 female rapes reported to the …
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The Verging Cities
… second explores the violence of the cities from femicide to drug cartels and the effects this has on the speaker. The third is an extended poem that lyrically examines marriages and immigration through traditional epithalamia. The fourth becomes explicitly about the two cities and explores themes …
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Engagement/involvement of staff from public medical Institutions with pregnant women experiencing intimate partner violence - a systematic review of African & South African literature
… The National Council on Gender-Based Violence Femicide can use information on the challenges/barriers to enquiry to achieve the goals and aims set out in The National Strategy Plan addressing gender-based violence and femicide in South Africa and Africa.
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Violence against women in South Africa: An event that disturbs public order in terms of the OAU refugee convention?
… of women worldwide. South Africa is known as the femicide capital of the world. Furthermore, the prevalence of violence against women in South Africa has reached epidemic proportions, posing a significant societal problem. Against this backdrop, this thesis examines the extent to which violence …
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Addressing gender stereotypes in Egypt and the impact of gender-based violence in film and media
… in normalizing gender-based violence and even femicide.</p>
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“To be or not to be?”: The decriminalisation of sex work in South Africa
… launch of the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and Femicide Declaration in 2019, made the commitment to working towards decriminalising sex work in South Africa as a means to also fight GBV. This in-line with what organisations that advocate for sex work such as the Sex Workers Education and …
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Mulheres em situação de violência e as políticas sociassistenciais no Estado da Paraíba
… (Garcia, 2013; WAISELFISZ, 2012). In studies on femicide, for example, wich the violence results in the victim's death, ultimate expression of violence against women, Paraiba reached the eighth position in the national ranking, with 6.99 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, the fourth largest rate …
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