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The Routledge International Handbook on Femicide and Feminicide

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Femi(ni)cide 101: What do you need to know about femicide?

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The Femicide Volumes Collection 2013-2023

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Neoliberalism, NAFTA, and dehumanization: The case of femicides in Ciudad Juárez

01.01.2019

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Intimate femicide: The role of coercive control

07.04.2017

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Femicide and the feminist perspective

01.01.2011

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UNDP + UN Women: Measures to address VAW during the pandemic have been uneven and insufficient

26.11.2020

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Impact of COVID-19 on violence against women

10.08.2020

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Response to OHCHR's call for femicide-related data and information

16.11.2018

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COVID-19 can augment violence to Mexican women

10.04.2020

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Counting the global scale of intimate femicide | UNODC Education for Justice Podcast 3

20.10.2020

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Data against femicide

01.08.2019

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"I would have killed her anyway". Kloop's investigation of femicide in Kyrgyzstan

17.12.2020

Activist Data

Official 2017 statistics on intimate partner violence in Germany

20.11.2018

Report

Femicide in Portugal during the COVID-19 pandemic

01.08.2020

Study

COVID-19 wave of violence against women shows EU countries still lack proper safeguards | EIGE

18.11.2020

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When lockdown is not actually safer: intimate partner violence and COVID-19

07.07.2020

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CFOJA Call It Femicide

Call it femicide: Femicide in Canada 2018 | CFOJA

01.01.2019

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Femicide Volume 4: Taking action

13.01.2015

Edited Volume

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Femicide Volume 5: Conflict and terrorism

02.01.2016

Edited Volume

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Femicide Volume 6: Violence against girls in flight

02.12.2016

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