On January 24, Argentina’s Minister of Justice Mariano Cúneo Libarona warned on X that the government of President Javier Milei would seek to eliminate femicide from the penal code on the ...

Indonesian Minister of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (PPPA) plans to create regulations to handle femicide cases ...

At face value, any public action the Kenyan government takes to show that it’s listening to its citizens is important – but ...

After being lured to Pakistan, Hira Anwar was fatally shot by her father and an uncle over online posts that her parents ...

Femicide, or feminicide in some cases ... with 21,700 women and girls killed, followed by Asia with 18,500 cases. The Americas reported 8,300 cases, while Europe and Oceania had much lower ...

"There was sexual violence, there was torture, there was cruelty, which are very explicit signs of hatred, misogyny, and ...

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.