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End femicide

An Observer campaign to stop the killing of women by men

15 January 2023

  • Andrew Wilding, right, was sentenced to life for the murder of his mother, Elsie Pinder, after setting fire to the flat they shared in July 2021

    ‘You had better be careful in your bed tonight’: shock rise in women killed by their sons

    Violence by children against parents and grandparents is Britain’s hidden abuse, often misunderstood or ignored – until too late. Pioneering research aims to bring it into the open

8 June 2022

  • Shadow of a woman feeling the pressure

    England’s new strangulation law – and why it is needed

    A new law specifically targeting non-fatal strangulation comes into effect this week in England and Wales. Yvonne Roberts explains why it is necessary

4 June 2022

  • Michaela Hall

    Police were told Michaela Hall was being strangled. Why didn’t they break in?

    A vulnerable woman was killed by her violent partner on the night officers knocked at her door. Now her family wants answers

29 May 2022

  • Dr Catherine White, the UK's foremost expert in strangulation

    All strangulation of women is serious – and it’s time for the law to step up

    Strangulation is the second most common method used to kill. As our campaign draws to a close, we find out what is – and isn’t – being done

27 February 2022

  • Jane Monckton-Smith

    Suicide by domestic violence: call to count the hidden toll of women’s lives

  • A woman's wrist is forcefully gripped

    Femicide Census: there’s a disturbing reason for the falling number of murders

    Karen Ingala Smith and Clarrie O'Callaghan

15 January 2022

  • Ella Dalby and her mother Laura Mortimer, murdered in 2018 by Mortimer’s partner Christopher Boon.

    Review of mother and daughter’s murders could save lives, family hopes

    Relatives want an official review of the killing of Laura Mortimer and Ella Dalby to spark better collaboration between police, social services and others

28 November 2021

  • Ipek Bozkurt, a campaigning lawyer

    Dying to Divorce: Turkish women’s campaign against domestic violence is set for Oscars

    Two British film-makers have shone a light on a campaigning lawyer and her clients in an expose of misogyny and dangerous politics

13 November 2021

  • A woman casts a shadow as she walks along a footpath past a coffee shop on a sunny, winter day in central Sydney, Australia

    End Femicide: the aims of our campaign

  • Portraits of women killed by men in 2020.

    Women killed by men – portraits of victims

7 November 2021

  • ‘The men believe they should be “a man” – which causes damage’: Joanne Nelson and Richard Cupid, therapists at The Well Community Centre, Barrow-in-Furness.

    The perpetrators: inside the minds of men who abuse women

  • A protester holds a placard that says Educate Your Son in<br>LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - 2021/03/15: A protester holds a placard that says Educate Your Son in Parliament Square during the demonstration. Crowds of people gathered in London to protest against the heavy-handed response by the police at the Sarah Everard vigil, as well as the government's new Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which would give the police new powers to deal with protests. (Photo by Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

    The Observer view on tackling violence against women

2 October 2021

  • The 81 women, named below.

    The 81 women killed in 28 weeks

    Since Sarah Everard’s brutal murder, only one thing has changed – the death toll

22 August 2021

  • The shadow of a young girl or boy playing on a swing

    What happens to the children of women killed by men?

    In the latest part of our series, we highlight the lack of official support in the UK for traumatised youngsters and those left to pick up the pieces. But, amid the grief, is there still hope for the future?

15 August 2021

  • tributes to Sarah Everard at Clapham Common in south London in March

    Victims of femicide are shamefully ignored in strategy on violence against women

    Karen Ingala Smith and Clarrie O’Callaghan
    A quarter of killings of women would not be tackled by a focus purely on domestic abuse

24 July 2021

  • Poppy Devey Waterhouse and Ellie Gould.

    ‘The law is cold. It doesn’t reflect the life lost’: mothers of murdered women tell their stories

    Grieving parents of two young women killed by their ex-boyfriends launch a new film to step up their campaign for justice

23 May 2021

  • Banaz Mahmod, Avan Najmadeen and Quyen Ngoc Nguyen. Photographs by Metropolitan Police/Northumbria Police/PA

    ‘No one believed my sister was in danger’: how race leaves abused women at risk

    To stop domestic killings of women from minorities, the authorities must learn to hear pleas for help – and act on them

26 April 2021

  • Femicide victims

    The UK’s femicide epidemic: who’s killing our daughters?

    In the latest part of our End Femicide campaign, we examine how stalking, coercive control and pornography lie behind so many of the killings of 272 young women in 10 years. Will the domestic abuse bill, due to become law this week, do enough to keep women safe?

25 April 2021

  • Karen Ingala Smith, above, co-founded the Femicide Census with Clarrie O’Callaghan.

    It’s time to stop ignoring the real extent of femicide in the UK

    Karen Ingala Smith
    There is little information about the women killed by men. Our census is building up a picture which can help save others

3 April 2021

  • Claire and Lauren Holmes on a bench installed in their sister Collette’s memory.

    Sisters of murdered Collette Gallacher fight for change in justice system

    The six-year-old was raped and killed 35 years ago. Now her family are campaigning to protect others from sex offenders
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