Femicide - Wikipedia Femicide or feminicide is the intentional murder that exclusively targets women or girls because of their gender or murder that disproportionately targets women or girls [1]
Five essential facts to know about femicide - UN Women Femicide (or feminicide, as it is referred to in some contexts) is defined as an intentional killing with a gender-related motivation It is different from homicide, where the motivation may not be gender-related
Femicide in the United States: a call for legal codification and . . . Femicide refers to the intentional gender-related killing of women and girls (1) Despite the high prevalence of female murder victimization in the United States (U S ) (2, 3), the U S lags behind other nations in defining and documenting gender-related female homicides (4)
Behind closed doors: the deadly reality of femicide This crime against women is called femicide Defined as the killing of a woman by an intimate partner and the death of a woman as a result of a practice that is harmful to women