Feminicide across Europe: Poland

The notion of femicide has lately been introduced into academic discourse (Grzyb 2014 https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=292041), although its circulation is rather scarce. The only context where the term circulates is in the media coverage of femicide in Latin American countries, especially in Central America and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. 1 Sources To the best of my knowledge, there is no institution,...

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Abortion Declaration by 125 women: My Body Is Not Illegal

Right here, right now – extraterritorial termination of abortion Terminating a pregnancy is not a sin. It is not taboo. Right here in South Korea, where abortion is prohibited by law, we speak for women choosing to terminate pregnancies. Abortion is a right that must be secured no matter the social status of the woman. Society speaks of abortion as a decision that only promiscuous or unmarried women...

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Feminicide across Europe: Norway

1 Terms and definition The term “Femicide” is not employed in Norwegian texts, unless in reference to international work, and would be viewed as a foreign term without resonance in the Norwegian language. A preference exists for Norwegian terms. The Norwegian term used in official documents is “partnerdrap” translated as “partner murder” or “partner killing”, where the partner may be a man or a woman....

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Feminicide across Europe: The Netherlands

1 Sources In the Netherlands, homicides in recent years (from 2003 onwards) have been classified according to the Dutch Homicide Monitor. For details on the construction of the dataset and the available variables, see Granath et al. (2011). This Monitor is based on various sources, which partially overlap, but also complement one another: • All homicide-related newspaper articles generated by the Netherlands...

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Feminicide across Europe: Malta

                                                    To date, Malta does not have an official body/entity which collects femicide data, other than the Police and, to the best of my knowledge, there it is classified as homicide. Moreover, nor has the definition of femicide been...

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Feminicide across Europe: Macedonia

Generally, there is lack of data information and statistics on femicide in the Republic of Macedonia. This is due to the fact that is no legally binding definition of femicide in the legal acts of the Republic of Macedonia. The definition of homicide is covered under Criminal law. Some changes have been made in this definition due to the implementation of the Istanbul Convention. The femicide data statistics...

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Feminicide across Europe: Lithuania

 Femicide as a consequence of intimate partner violence has been mainly utilized by women’s NGOs, which advocate for legal reform and policy changes in Lithuania. Data on femicide are generally collected under statistics for homicide. 1 Sources The most reliable source on femicide is the crime statistics collected by the Ministry of Interior. The Department of Information Technology and Communications...

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Feminicide across Europe: Italy

The notion of femicide has circulated in Italy since 2004, when the European SARA and subsequently FEAR projects (both funded by the Daphne framework) were implemented. As a result of these projects, publications (Baldry, 2006) and conferences (2005) disseminated the term. In 2006, Spinelli authored a book bearing that title (Spinelli 2006). For the last decade, due to social, political, and NGO’s movements,...

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Feminicide across Europe: Israel

The notion of “femicide”, as such, is practically absent from Israel. In recent years, though, awareness to  “the murder of women” or “women murder” by their (normally) male family members is well evident in public discourse. Overall, the media plays a key role in Israel in disseminating the notion of “women murder” as a social phenomenon, which should be condemned. In addition, Israeli academics...

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Feminicide across Europe: Ireland

1 Background   The word femicide is rarely used in Ireland; intimate partner murder or homicide are more common terms in use.   2 Sources  Data on femicide in Ireland are (potentially) available from the following sources:   a) Central Statistics Office - An Garda Síochána (Irish Police Force) crime statistics are collected via the PULSE (Police Using Leading Systems...

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Feminicide across Europe: Iceland

Femicide as a concept has hardly gained any ground in Iceland. The term has only recently come into public use by the Icelandic members of the COST project on femicide.   9.1 Sources  Data on femicide as such is not collected in Iceland. However, three databases with information on murders provide the possibility to generate data on femicide in Iceland.   a) Police data. The...

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Feminicide across Europe: Greece

There is no statistical data concerning the female death rate due to assault in Greece, as data on homicides are not sex-disaggregated. According to the Greek Police Statistical Service, the only available quantitative data concern the relation of the sex of the perpetrator or the victim and the locus of murder (2013):  The dominant femicide pattern is that of intimate partner murder. The...

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Feminicide across Europe: Germany

  The term “femicide” is not widely used in Germany. One possible reason could be its similarity to “genocide” and its connotations for German history. Nevertheless, the killings of women are recognized as an extreme form of VAW and are included in criminological data and murder statistics, and are also recognized in research and policies on VAW. There are few publications and studies focusing on...

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Feminicide across Europe: Georgia

Data. According to a global study on homicide conducted in 2013, the intentional homicide rate per 100,000 population is 3.4, which puts Georgia in the group of low homicide rate countries. The percentage of male and female intentional homicide victims is 75.7 and 24.3, respectively.   According to the analysis provided by the Chief Prosecutor Office of Georgia, 53 women were killed in 2014-2015,...

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