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A report launched by Oxfam Honduras and a Honduran NGO, the Tribunal of Women Against Femicide, says that women are dying because of a deadly mixture of gun crime, political instability and the "systematic indifference" of the police.
Honduran police turn a blind eye to soaring number of 'femicides' 2011
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Femicide, most times perpetrated by intimate male partners, is the leading cause of premature death among Black women between the ages of 15 and 44 with near fatal femicide contributing to long term injuries and conditions.
Charles D. Ellison: Domestic Violence: Swimming in Ignorance Charles D. Ellison 2010
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Femicide, most times perpetrated by intimate male partners, is the leading cause of premature death among Black women between the ages of 15 and 44 with near fatal femicide contributing to long term injuries and conditions.
Charles D. Ellison: Domestic Violence: Swimming in Ignorance 2010
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Femicide, most times perpetrated by intimate male partners, is the leading cause of premature death among Black women between the ages of 15 and 44 with near fatal femicide contributing to long term injuries and conditions.
Charles D. Ellison: Domestic Violence: Swimming in Ignorance 2010
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Refresh Tag (s): Afghanistan; Death; Democracy; Femicide; Legislation; Mental Illness; Misogyny; Murder; Oppression; Patriarchy; (more ...)
Afghan Women Protest Marital Rape Law; Men Spit and Stone Them 2009
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Femicide, the systematic and planned destruction of the female population, is being used as a tactic of war to clear villages, pillage mines and destroy the fabric of Congolese society.
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Promoted to Headline (H3) on 3/8/09: Vagina Warriors Stand against Femicide yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Vagina Warriors Stand against Femicide'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Eve Ensler monologues \'Marta\' at the Atlanta tourstop of Turning Pain to Power with Dr. Denis Mukwege, the ob-gyn who serves in the war-torn Congo.
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Femicide It may be a Darwinian survival trait to fear otherness, but in extreme it leads to inevitable extinction.
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It may seem extreme to call what is happening a Femicide --- the violence may not fit the exact legal definition of the Genocide Convention -- but for the women facing such systematic destruction, targeted precisely and only because they are women, Femicide is a word whose time has come.
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Femicide happens in families of every background and description.
december 6: day of remembrance and action on violence against women 2008
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