User:JamBing/Femicide

Proposed Changes: (I'll underline or note any changes I'm thinking about making, ive italicized what should be cut)

I think some of the statistics are worded in a way that make them sound current, so it would be best to find more recent studies or give the timestamp for the stats.

A goal of mine is to read through reword this article to be as neutral as I can. I'm concerned that the language used is detracting from it's validity.

I would like to contribute more to the section about prevention as that seems lacking but an important section. I will reference Shalva Weil's article, "Research and prevention of femicide across Europe".

I realized there may be some repetitions in the citations so I would like to clean them up for the entire article.

Femicide

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Femicide or feminicide is a term for the hate crime of systematically killing women, girls, or females in general because of their gender and/or sex. In 1976, the feminist author Diana E. H. Russell defined the term as "the killing of females by males because they are female." Femicide can be perpetrated by either gender but is more often committed by men. This is most likely due to unequal power between men and women as well as harmful gender roles, stereotypes, or social norms. Femicide is not purely male-perpetrated and can be female-perpetrated as well. [CUT]

A spouse or partner is responsible in almost 40% of homicides involving a female victim. Additionally, femicide may be underreported. Femicide often includes domestic violence and forced or sex-selective abortions.

In some Latin American countries the term femicide is used in reference to the violent killings of women and girls which are frequently perpetrated by gang members in order to stoke fear and compliance among civilians. [CUT - this addressed later in article ]

Androcide refers to the violence or killing of men.[CUT] Femicide is a form of gendercide, which is a term for general gender specific violence.

I don't know if this section is necessary about men, gendercide seems necessary but I'm on the fence about Androcide being mentioned.

Among intimate partners[edit]
Intimate partner femicide, sometimes called intimate femicide, or romantic femicide, refers to the killing of a woman by her intimate partner or her former intimate partner. Intimate partner femicide is often proceeded by intimate partner violence.

Worldwide[edit]
Every year, an average of 66,000 women are violently killed globally, accounting for approximately 17% of all victims of intentional homicides. In 2022, the number of women and girls killed globally was nearly 89,000. According to a 2000 report by the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA), approximately 5,000 women are murdered each year in honor killings. The rates of femicide differ depending on the specific country, but of the countries with the top 25 highest femicide rates, 50% are in Latin America, with number one being El Salvador. Also included in the top 25 are seven European countries, three Asian countries, and one African country, South Africa. Social beliefs and acceptability about gender based violence varies from country to country

Data on femicide worldwide is poor, and often countries do not report gender differences in murder statistics. Many communities do not have access to resources or accurate data. In addition, reporting data on migrants is particularly scarce. High-income countries have seen more decreases in femicide then low-income countries.

Prevention[edit] Femicide#
Attempting to prevent femicide could include implementing laws that would specifically work to improve the safety of women and address the risk factors mentioned. For example, harsher punishments for those that murder a woman solely based on their gender.

Fatality reviews could aid in addressing what contributes to femicide. This specification helps identify risk factors and encourages change. In general, more research on femicide would contribute to the creation of potential solutions.

Raising awareness[edit]
Raising awareness amongst the public about how femicide differs from other murders and crimes could also help with prevention by encouraging support for change in policy.

Advocacy groups raise awareness, especially when there is an absence of governmental action. These groups include women advocay groups, as well as nongovernmental or non-profit organizations.

Training officials[edit]
All officials involved in a gender-based crime should be adequately trained in order to offer support. Service workers, police officers, and legal professionals are some of the groups that should receive extensive training on signs of violence in different social groups, including minorities and migrants. Training is the first step to creating policies to prevent femicide.

Legal solutions[edit]
Many females are murdered as a result of intentional femicide. [CUT] Legal solutions to femicide include making laws and policies to prevent violence against women, as well as domestic and family violence. It has been suggested by some that countries should consider improving the status of women in and create laws that support gender equality.

In Latin America there have been many new laws to label the murders of women as femicide or feminicide using the definition of a woman by a man based on misogyny. At the same time, feminicide goes beyond this definition and implicates the state's complicity in maintaining violence against women. These changes have been made due to global human rights norms, like the 1994 Inter-American Convention on the Prevention and the Eradication of Violence against Women, which expresses that gender violence is the state's responsibility. Nevertheless, these international norms are not regulated. They do not implement how a state should exercise new laws and policies to enforce violence against women.

Some countries have passed laws belonging to femicide or crimes labeled as feminicides. In Mexico and Nicaragua, female activists became involved in legal activism so their state could increase responsibility for female violence. During a small political opportunity with a strict regime in Nicaragua, Femicide resulted from the countries' responsiveness to feminist demands. In Mexico, feminicides became successful because of good campaigning by local feminists connected to national arenas and through the intervention of feminist federal legislators. A known Mexican female activist, Marcela Lagarde, saw the rise of women being murdered in Mexico and demanded that the state take responsibility for the killings. She brought in the concept of femicide (the murder of females), which quickly spread to Latin America, and as of 2017, femicide and feminicide became crimes in 18 countries.