Femicide

Malta At The Bottom of EU Femicide Table; Latvia Dominates, Africa Worst Worldwide

Newly released Eurostat figures underline the stubborn resilience of gender-related killings across Europe, even as the continent continues to consider fresh legal remedies. In the European Union, women are killed…

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Italian parliament unanimously votes to make femicide a crime

Deputies in the Italian parliament have voted unanimously to introduce the crime of femicide – the murder of a woman, motivated by gender – as a distinct law to be…

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Italy’s Treccani Encyclopaedia chooses ‘Femicide’ as word of the year

Italy's prestigious Treccani Encyclopaedia has chosen ‘Femminicidio’ (Femicide )as its word of the year amid a wave of deadly gender violence recently highlighted by the murder by her ex-boyfriend of…

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Spain tries to tackle increase in fatal violence against women

The Spanish government has called a second emergency meeting of domestic violence experts in less than a month after the murders of six women and a young girl since the…

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Spain vows more vigilance, protection as murders of women spike in December

MADRID (Reuters) - The Spanish government promised on Thursday increased police protection for victims of domestic violence after at least nine women in Spain were killed by their current or…

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Spanish child found tied to anchor died from drowning, autopsy finds

Update - The child whose body was found inside a bag weighted down with an anchor in the ocean off the Spanish island of Tenerife died from drowning, an autopsy…

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Femicides in Mexico rise more than 2%, protests rage

Femicides in Mexico are on the rise this year, according to official statistics released on the weekend, murders that have intensified protests this month demanding the government address violence against…

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More than half the women killed by men in UK were killed by current or former partner – Study

More than half the women killed by men in the UK in 2018 were killed by a current or former partner, many after they had taken steps to leave, according…

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Femicides on the rise in Italy

A 53-year-old man was arrested Friday for allegedly murdering his 50-year-old girlfriend on Sardinia last month. Ansa reports that the woman, Speranza Ponti, from Uri, went missing in mid December. Her body…

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82 women and girls are killed daily by someone whom they would normally trust and expect to care for them – UN Study

87,000 women worldwide were killed intentionally in 2017, and more than 50,000 were killed by intimate partners, a new study from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime found. 3,000…

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Hundreds attend journalist Viktoria Marinova’s funeral

Hundreds of people have attended the funeral of the Bulgarian television journalist Viktoria Marinova, as authorities said a murder suspect arrested in Germany would be extradited soon. Ms Marinova left a seven-year-old daughter.…

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Saturday Malta Evening News Roundup (UPDATED)

Good evening, Today's news refer to the discovery of a lifeless body in Gozo, the protest against domestic violence and femicide, the latest on the school transport, the investigations in…

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