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Femicide

July 2024

  • MAY -2022 -Ramsgate: Mina Smallman's two daughters were never to return from a birthday celebration the night before in a north London park. Mina pictured in her home in Ramsgate. ( Photography by Graeme Robertson)

    Observer book of the week
    A Better Tomorrow by Mina Smallman review – devastation and beyond

  • Photographs and floral tributes to Carol Hunt and her daughters.

    The Observer view on violence against women after Bushey murders: rampant misogyny must be tackled

May 2024

  • People strand holding handwritten signs with pictures of Saltanat Nukenova and writing in Kazakh and English saying 'Justice for Salta'

    Rights and freedom
    Kazakh court jails former minister for 24 years for brutal murder of wife

  • Views her work as defying a state that condones a war against women ... Cristina Rivera Garza.

    ‘The only healing will be through justice’: Pulitzer winner Cristina Rivera Garza on femicide in Mexico

April 2024

  • And on the flute … a Cycladic figure playing an instrument.

    The great women's art bulletin
    Femicide surge: the Cycladic figures found in the Aegean show a deep respect for the female body. How did Greece lose this?

  • A passerby looks at purple sheets spread out on the pavement covered with a variety of wares, behind which is a red screen strung between two trees covered in hangings with feminist slogans in Spanish and a Palestinian flag

    Stickers, soap and legal help: the rise of Mexico City’s ‘feminist markets’

March 2024

  • Michaela Hall was murdered by her partner Lee Kendall.

    ‘They signed her death warrant’: how probation service failings left a violent man free to kill

    The father of Michaela Hall, the charity worker killed by her partner in Cornwall after he was wrongly assessed as only ‘medium risk’ says lessons must be learned
  • Emanuela Fanelli and Paola Cortellesi lean against a wall in the film

    ‘Every Italian recognised a piece of their own family’: film on abuse of women touches a nerve

    First-time director Paola Cortellesi tells of her surprise at success of the uncompromising There’s Still Tomorrow
  • Wayne Couzens's police mughot after his arrest for murder

    Home Office breaks pledge to fund sex-crime research after Everard murder

    Government was to look at whether offenders tend to commit increasingly serious crimes after outcry over warning signs with police officer Wayne Couzens

February 2024

  • Jess Phillips in a near-empty House of Commons chamber

    ‘I am weary’: Jess Phillips reads MPs list of women killed by men for ninth year

  • Supporters of women’s rights NGO We Will Stop Femicide protest the Turkish prosecutor’s attempt to close the group over alleged ‘immoral activities’ in June 2022

    Seven women in Turkey ‘savagely killed’ by current or ex-spouses in single day

  • On the left Grace Wangari, a smiling woman in a pink head wrap looks at the camera, on the right Starlet Wahu, wearing a denim shirt and with long wavy hair looks sideways at the camera.

    ‘Dark Valentine’ day in Kenya, as nationwide vigils mark grim toll of murdered women and girls

  • Protesters in Mogadishu holding posters of Lul Abdi Aziz Jazira, who died after being set on fire.

    Killing of three women in a week sparks femicide protests in Somalia

January 2024

  • A woman protester in Argentina with the slogan 'ni una menos', 'not one less' on her face

    Rights and freedom
    ‘I can’t face how much she suffered’: Argentina femicides at record high as Milei dilutes protections

    Despite the deaths of 322 women in 2023, the new president has closed the ministry of women and gender and proposed ‘regressive’ new laws
  • Nottingham city centre incident<br>Flowers left outside a building on Ilkeston Road, Nottingham, after three people were killed and another three hurt in connected attacks on Tuesday morning. Picture date: Wednesday June 14, 2023. PA Photo. Two 19-year-old students Barnaby Webber and Grace Kumar and a man in his 50s were stabbed to death before the attacker allegedly stole the older victim's van and attempted to run over three people in Nottingham, a police chief has said. Nottinghamshire Police said a 31-year-old man was tasered and arrested on suspicion of murder following the deadly rampage and remains in custody. See PA story POLICE Nottingham. Photo credit should read: Jacob King/PA Wire

    The Observer view on rising knife crime: a quick-fix solution won’t address the cause

    Valdo Calocane’s fatal stabbing attacks in Nottingham reignite the debate about how best to make Britain’s streets safer
  • Kenyan women hold a vigil for femicide victims. A sign reads: 'Stop violence against women'

    Femicide in Kenya is a national crisis, say rights groups

    Exclusive: at least four women have been murdered since the start of the year, leading to accusations of government inaction

November 2023

  • Monique Olivier, the ex-wife of French serial killer Michel Fourniret, will go on trial this week. Fourniret died in May 2021.

    Victims of French serial killer face last chance for justice as accomplice of ‘Ogre’ goes on trial

  • Protesters in Naples carrying torches in memory of Cecchettin on Thursday

    Anger across Italy as killing of student highlights country’s femicide rate

October 2023

  • Asel Nogoibaeva in the hospital bed. She was viciously attacked by her ex-husband in Kyrgyzstan, despite reporting death threats to the police and his conviction for raping her.

    ‘Why must we be silent?’: horrific attack in Kyrgyzstan puts focus on violence against women

    Case in which man cut off his ex-wife’s nose and ears – while on probation for raping her – causes huge debate in country where femicide and domestic abuse are rife

September 2023

  • Katherine Kelly in The Long Shadow on ITV1.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Katherine Kelly stars in poignant drama about Peter Sutcliffe’s victims

    The sensitive retelling shows how many of the women killed by Sutcliffe faced character assassination by press and police. Plus: the concluding part of Laura Kuenssberg’s excellent series. Here’s what to watch this evening
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