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Femicide
According to the United Nations femicide is defined as "a crime involving the violent and deliberate killing of a woman." Femicides include honor killings, domestic abuse, racism, and hate crimes. Femicide is known in most countries throughout the world although not all countries have the same number of killings towards women. Today Latin America has the highest number of murders of women while Europe has some of the lowest killing. According to the World Health Organization these femicides are mostly done by the partners of the victims which include current or former husbands or boyfriends.

Legal Solutions
Today millions of females around the world are killed as a result of intentional killings towards them. Solutions to this problem include making laws and policies for violence against women. Techniques that can be developed include crime prevention policies that are aimed at domestic and family violence. Additionally, countries worldwide should consider developing the status of women in their countries and create laws on gender equality. For example, in Latin America there have been many new laws to label the murders of women as femicide or feminicide. Femicide is defined as the killing of a woman by a man based on misogyny, while feminicide goes beyond this definition and implicates the state's complicity in maintaining violence against women. These changes have been made as a result of human right norms globally, like the 1994 Inter-American Convention on the Prevention and the Eradication of Violence against Women, which express that gender violence is the state's responsibility. Nevertheless, these international norms are not regulated and do not implement how a state should exercise new laws and policies to enforce violence against women.

There are some countries that have passed laws belonging to femicide or crimes labeled as feminicides. Countries who have done this have had good results because before the law recognizes the crime, society has already responded to the crime, examples of this are in Mexico and Nicaragua.(2) In Mexico and Nicaragua female activists became involved in legal activism so their state could increase responsibility for female violence. In Nicaragua, during a time of small political opportunity with a strict regime, Femicide resulted from the countries' responsiveness to feminist demands. In Mexico, feminicides became successful because of good campaigning by local feminists that were 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 through violence and the state as complicits) which quickly spread to Latin America and as of 2017 femicide and feminicide became crimes in 18 countries.