Nov 25, 2020 · And in the UK, a new first-of-its-kind report from the Femicide Census shows that a man kills a woman every three days in the country – a statistic unchanged across the 10 years studied. “Men’s violence against women is a leading cause of the premature death for women globally but research in the UK and Europe is limited and unconnected ...

May 28, 2019 · But women in Central America face added threats from gang violence and organized criminal activity. Rates of femicide – the murder of a woman or girl for gender-related reasons – have reached epidemic levels. In Honduras, there were 5.8 femicides per 100,000 women in 2016. In El Salvador, the rate is an appalling 10.2 per 100,000.

Jan 23, 2025 · We have even got to the point of normalizing the fact that in many supposedly civilized countries, if you kill a woman, it is called femicide. And this carries more serious punishment than if you kill a man simply based on the sex of the victim – legally making a woman's life be worth more than that of a man.

In August 2019, 49 women in Turkey were killed by men that they knew, according to women’s rights platform We Will Stop Femicide. That month, Emine Bulut , a 38-year-old mother, was killed by her ex-husband in a cafe in front of her daughter.

Mar 10, 2022 · Four Black women who have advanced civil rights: the list includes a leader of the movement to end female genital cutting, a campaigner for the rights of favela residents in Brazil, the first woman appointed director-general of the World Trade Organisation, and the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Jul 13, 2022 · Access World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2022 here.

Jul 23, 2019 · We have recently witnessed millions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex (LGBTI) people protesting in streets across the globe to call out homo-, bi-, trans and interphobia, to fight against discrimination and violence towards our communities and for …

Jan 19, 2024 · The 54th Annual Meeting of The World Economic Forum will take place at Davos-Klosters from 15th to 19th January 2024.

Oct 28, 2019 · At the outset, it is important to reflect on just how many people are affected by violence. While difficult to measure with precision, as many as 600,000 people - including almost 100,000 women and girls - die around the world each year as a result of conflict, crime, extremist and extrajudicial violence.

Aug 31, 2020 · If change-makers want to be hands-on, then they need to be the kind of people who can connect climate action groups with well-inclined legislators in Russia, or bring anti-femicide organizations from northern Mexico together for coordination and exposure to funders from Denmark, and then step out of the channel to let the relationship develop.