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Global Public HealthThe absence of reliable administrative data from many countries means that there is little global surveillance of femicide. We conducted femicide surveillance with four dedicated national retrospective mortuary-based surveys to understand its magnitude ...
Naeemah Abrahams +13 more
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Contrasting organizational responses to femicide in Mexico’s public health crisis [PDF]
BMC Public HealthBackground Femicide—the gender-motivated killing of women—remains an urgent public health and human rights crisis in Latin America. In Mexico, legal reforms have established formal mechanisms for prevention and response, yet implementation remains ...
Veronica Valencia Gonzalez
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Researchers' experience in data collection with families of femicide victims. [PDF]
Rev Bras EnfermObjectives: to describe researchers’ experience in collecting data from families of femicide victims. Methods: this descriptive, qualitative study took the form of an experience report and was conducted in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
Reis IO, Scherer EA, Scherer ZAP.
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Characterising the killing of girls and women in urban settings in Latin America, 2000–2019: an analysis of variability and time trends using mortality data from vital registration systems [PDF]
BMJ Public HealthIntroduction Latin America is burdened by high levels of violence. Although boys and men often experience more violence and fatalities, girls and women face a greater risk of being killed by family members or intimate partners due to their gender, a ...
Ana V Diez Roux +12 more
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Gender-based violence and femicide interventions-perspectives from community members and activists in South Africa. [PDF]
Front Glob Womens HealthGlobally, Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) remains a multifaceted social issue in the 21st century. Despite the ratification of international treaties and national laws, South Africa continues to have alarmingly high levels of GBVF, which were ...
Mkwananzi S, Nathane-Taulela M.
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Femicide in partnership relations [PDF]
Temida, 2017 In numerous studies in the world, the existence of femicide as a specific form of homicide has been confirmed, indicating its conditions and consequences and the strongest risk factors.
Spasić Danijela +2 more
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, 2018 Words constrain our perceptions and experiences. Our language builds our thoughts and is a powerful tool to describe the world. The words used in language represent an ambivalent tool that we can use to express our own perceptions, emotions and thoughts, and at the same time, they determine our experiences and social imaginary (cf.
Grzyb, Magdalena +2 more
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Femicide in Latin America: An economic approach [PDF]
Desarrollo y Sociedad, 2021 The rising cases of femicide across Latin America have pushed governments to enact specific laws criminalizing this gender-based murder to deter violence and crime against women.
Carolina Álvarez-Garavito +1 more
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The geography of femicide in Sergipe, Brazil: matriarchy, human development, and income distribution [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia, 2021 : Aim: This research analyzed a joint spatial distribution and explored the possible associations between epidemiological aspects and feminicide rates, in towns of the Sergipe State in Northeastern Brazil.
Yamilla Ramos Carvalho de Sá +4 more
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Feminicidios en Perú. ¿Son algunos departamentos intrínsecamente más peligrosos para las mujeres?
Revista de Análisis Económico y Financiero, 2021 Femicide in Peru is a problem that affects each of its departments, some to a greater extent. Departments such as Madre de Dios and others in the south of the country (such as Tacna, Arequipa, Ayacucho or Moquegua) have consistently had the highest rates
Jorge Mori Mojalott
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