A Femicide Factsheet: Global Stats & Calls to Action

Violence against women and girls remains one of the least prosecuted and punished crimes in the world. It is “still so deeply embedded in cultures around the world that it is almost invisible,” says the UN, describing it as “a construct of power and a means of maintaining the status-quo”. Indeed, its prevalence has desensitised people to the alarming reality – and the fact that far too often, violence against women and girls in all its various forms, ends in femicide.

Key wordsFemicides / gender based violence / sexual gender based violence / Violence Against Women

CountriesGlobal

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