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Definition of femicide

General definition 

Killing of women and girls because of their gender, which can take the form of, inter alia:

  • the murder of women as a result of intimate partner violence;
  • the torture and misogynist slaying of women 
  • killing of women and girls in the name of “honour”;
  • targeted killing of women and girls in the context of armed conflict;
  • dowry-related killings of women;
  • killing of women and girls because of their sexual orientation and gender identity;
  • the killing of aboriginal and indigenous women and girls because of their gender;
  • female infanticide and gender-based sex selection foeticide;
  • genital mutilation related deaths;
  • accusations of witchcraft; and
  • other femicides connected with gangs, organized crime, drug dealers, human trafficking and the proliferation of small arms.

Statistical definition

The killing of a woman by an intimate partner and the death of a woman as a result of a practice that is harmful to women. Intimate partner is understood as a former or current spouse or partner, whether or not the perpetrator shares or has shared the same residence with the victim.

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  • Improving legal responses to counter femicide

    … institutional response to violence against women, namely femicide. EIGE aims to support EU Member States in improving … and rights of the victims in the criminal proceedings for femicide, and the duty of the States to investigate, … law and in practice when providing justice to victims of femicide. The specific objectives of this study are:  to …

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    Procurement
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  • Ex-ante publicity notice for procurement procedure - Country factsheets on measuring femicide in the EU Member States

    … in order to prepare country factsheets on measuring femicide in the EU Member States Description of the requested … States, displaying the data and information gathered on femicide in each Member State within the frame of the Project … to measure the gender-related killings of women (femicide) through questionnaires. The country factsheets will …

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  • The EU is inching towards comparable data on intimate partner violence

    … Data for the number of women victims of intimate partner femicide (see Figure 1), is available for the majority of … been able to populate the indicator for at least one year. Femicide: Taking a closer look at the data    EIGE’s indicator  on the number of victims of intimate femicide as a share of women victims of homicide is one of …

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  • EU rights and equality agency heads: Let’s step up our efforts to end domestic violence

    … minorities for example). A workable legal definition of femicide to denote the killing of women and girls because of …

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  • References

    … Equality (EIGE) (2017), Glossary of definitions of rape, femicide and intimate partner violence, EIGE, Vilnius … Equality (EIGE) (2017), Glossary of definitions of rape, femicide and intimate partner violence, EIGE, Vilnius … Equality (EIGE) (2017), Glossary of definitions of rape, femicide and intimate partner violence, EIGE, Vilnius …

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  • Advancing administrative data collection on intimate partner violence and gender-related killings of women

    … on collecting data on intimate partner violence, rape and femicide, as per EIGE’s country-specific recommendations … of the project, EIGE developed a classification system on femicide. The aim of the project was to improve the … EIGE's indicators on intimate partner violence, rape and femicide: EU state of play EIGE's indicators on intimate …

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    • Violence
  • Data gaps the mask true scale of gender-based violence in the EU

    … for which recent data is available are examined, namely femicide, female genital mutilation (FGM) and trafficking in … of the measurement framework for the domain of violence. Femicide Femicide is a phenomenon captured partially through national …

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    Toolkit page
  • 10. Conclusions

    … could be updated, although not for all Member States: femicide, FGM and trafficking in human beings. As a result, … in collecting comprehensive and uniform data on rape, femicide and intimate partner violence. Further efforts need …

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  • Violence for 2019

    … for which recent data is available are examined, namely femicide, female genital mutilation (FGM) and trafficking in … of the measurement framework for the domain of violence. Femicide Femicide is a phenomenon captured partially through national …

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    Page
  • Terminology and indicators for data collection: rape, femicide and intimate partner violence

    … women, using uniform definitions and indicators on rape, femicide and intimate partner violence. It developed … on the most serious forms of violence against women: rape, femicide and intimate partner violence. The police and …

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    Project
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    • Violence
  • Gender Statistics Database

    … the comparability of results. For example, in the case of femicide, the data comes from the joint Eurostat-UNODC data …

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  • Reported cases of violence against women reveal only the tip of the iceberg

    … residence with the victim. Find more definitions on rape, femicide and intimate partner violence here . You can also find more information on measuring rape, femicide and intimate partner violence through administrative …

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    News article
  • Recommendations for the EU to improve data collection on violence against women

    … and reliability of administrative data collection on rape, femicide and intimate partner violence. The objective is not …

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    • Violence
    • Justice
  • Terminology and indicators for data collection: Rape, femicide and intimate partner violence - Report

    … the use of harmonised definitions and indicators on rape, femicide and intimate partner violence. The proposed … three most serious forms of violence against women: rape, femicide and intimate partner violence. The main sectors …

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    • Violence
    • Justice
  • Lighting the way: violence against women must stop

    … still takes very serious forms in Lithuania. The number of femicide by intimate partner is the highest among all the 13 …

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    News article
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    • Violence
    • Justice
  • Gender Equality Index 2017: We cannot be silent about violence

    … against women that ranges from harassment to death (femicide). It also helps to measure forms of violence, such …

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    News article
    Topics
    • Violence
    • Justice
  • Glossary of definitions of rape, femicide and intimate partner violence

    … The Glossary of definitions of rape, femicide and intimate partner violence has been prepared … on terminology and indicators for data collection on rape, femicide and intimate partner violence". The Glossary … European, international and national definitions of rape, femicide and IPV and presents the definitions proposed for …

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    • Violence
    • Justice
  • Administrative data collection on rape, femicide and intimate partner violence in EU Member States

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    • Violence
    • Justice
  • Police and justicial administrative data

    … regarding reported offences of lethal violence (including femicide) are misleading since they show all reported … on the number of processed offences of lethal violence (femicide), rape, sexual coercion, sexual abuse, sexual …

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    Good practice
    Country
    Sweden
    Topics
    • Health
    • Violence
  • Finnish Homicide Monitor (FHM)

    … A high-quality source on femicide Since 2002, the Finnish homicide monitor (FHM) has … questionnaire. The database is a high-quality source for femicide since it contains information on, for example, … threats, fears). It has provided more in-depth data on femicide since the national statistics on causes of death …

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    Good practice
    Country
    Finland
    Topics
    • Health
    • Violence

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