Femicide Census https://femicidescensus.org Profiles of women killed by men Thu, 05 Mar 2020 14:48:25 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.1 https://femicidescensus.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/cropped-femicide_census_site_logo2-32x32.png Femicide Census https://femicidescensus.org 32 32 Jess Phillips MP reads out the names of women killed by men in the UK https://femicidescensus.org/jess-phillips-mp-reads-out-the-names-of-women-killed-by-men-in-the-uk/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jess-phillips-mp-reads-out-the-names-of-women-killed-by-men-in-the-uk Thu, 05 Mar 2020 14:48:25 +0000 https://femicidescensus.org/?p=434 For  the fifth consecutive year, for International Women’s Day, Jess Phillips MP reads out the names of women killed by men in the UK in the year since last year’s International Women’s Day, names that have been collated by Karen Ingala Smith.

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]]> Why counting dead women is a necessary task https://femicidescensus.org/why-counting-dead-women-is-a-necessary-task/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-counting-dead-women-is-a-necessary-task Mon, 24 Feb 2020 10:20:28 +0000 https://femicidescensus.org/?p=430 Susan Dalgety looks at the release of the Femicide Census report on UK femicides in 2018, arguing that in attempting to pander to the voices of a minority, candidates for the Labour Leadership posts are dismissing the importance of evidence based policy and the rights of women and girls.

Read the full article by Susan Dalgety on The Scotsman website. 

 

]]> 149 women killed by men in 2018 https://femicidescensus.org/149-women-killed-by-men-in-2018/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=149-women-killed-by-men-in-2018 Fri, 21 Feb 2020 11:12:51 +0000 https://femicidescensus.org/?p=422 In half the cases, perpetrators had previous histories of violence against the victim or other women, with three men found to have killed before.

Overkilling – defined as the use of excessive, gratuitous violence beyond that necessary to cause the victim’s death – was evident in 56% of cases.

Read the full article by Laith Al-Khalaf and Alexandra Topping on the Guardian website

]]> Why do men get away with killing women? https://femicidescensus.org/why-do-men-get-away-with-killing-women-is-there-an-amnesty-on-male-violence/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-do-men-get-away-with-killing-women-is-there-an-amnesty-on-male-violence Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:29:10 +0000 https://femicidescensus.org/?p=414 Is there an amnesty on male violence? Julie Bindel addresses men’s fatal violence against women in its patriarchal context, austerity and cuts to specialist women’s services and argues that there is a virtual amnesty on men’s violence against women.

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]]> More Than Half Of Murdered Women Are Killed By An Ex Or Current Partner https://femicidescensus.org/more-than-half-of-murdered-women-are-killed-by-an-ex-or-current-partner/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=more-than-half-of-murdered-women-are-killed-by-an-ex-or-current-partner Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:22:47 +0000 https://femicidescensus.org/?p=411 Karen Ingala Smith tells Grazia magazine that addressing men’s violence against women in a piecemeal way will not bring about a reduction in men’s violence against women.  Women are dying and until politicians focus on creating real change and ambitious engagement with tacking sex inequality, rather than winning votes with virtue-signalling soundbites, women will continue to be harmed and killed.

Read the full article at graziadaily.co.uk

]]> The history of violence https://femicidescensus.org/the-history-of-violence-in-more-than-half-of-men-who-killed-women-in-britain/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-history-of-violence-in-more-than-half-of-men-who-killed-women-in-britain Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:12:52 +0000 https://femicidescensus.org/?p=407 More than half the men who killed women in 2018 were known to have histories of violence against women and three men had killed women before.

Read the full article on the Independent website

]]> The War On Women https://femicidescensus.org/the-war-on-women/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-war-on-women https://femicidescensus.org/the-war-on-women/#comments Tue, 18 Dec 2018 15:26:10 +0000 https://femicidescensus.org/?p=1 Covering the report on femicides in 2017, Julie Bindel, feminist, journalist and co-founder of Justice for Women, observes that it is only feminists who make the connections between different forms of men’s violence against women and a misogynistic culture. 

Click here to read the full article on The Guardian website

]]> https://femicidescensus.org/the-war-on-women/feed/ 1 Femicide in UK, 2017 https://femicidescensus.org/femicide-in-uk-2017/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=femicide-in-uk-2017 Tue, 18 Dec 2018 00:01:42 +0000 https://femicidescensus.org/?p=258 Three-quarters of women killed by men in 2017 knew the perpetrator, says Frances Perradin. The piece also covers the extent of overkill which was first discussed in the 2017 report. The Femicide Census challenges dominant narratives of knife crime which focus on young men and street violence.

View the full article on the Guardian website.

]]> Honouring the victims of gender violence https://femicidescensus.org/honouring-the-victims-of-gender-violence/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=honouring-the-victims-of-gender-violence Wed, 07 Dec 2016 18:16:46 +0000 https://femicidescensus.org/?p=255 Covering the release of the first Femicide Census report (2009-2015), Sarah Ditum picks up the challenge to the use of the phrase ‘isolated incident’, so often used by police in relation to men’s fatal violence against women. She looks at sex differences, noting that whilst homicide rates have fallen, femicide rates have remained stable. Ditum explores selective reporting that reveals which women are deemed valuable and which are not.

Read the full article on the News Statesman website (paywall)

]]> Why does a woman stay with a violent man? https://femicidescensus.org/why-does-a-woman-stay-with-a-violent-man/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-does-a-woman-stay-with-a-violent-man Wed, 07 Dec 2016 16:46:14 +0000 https://femicidescensus.org/?p=358 Writing a piece to accompany the release of the first Femicide Census report (2009-2015), co-founder Karen Ingala Smith explores how the Femicide Census statistics show us that leaving a violent man is not a straightforward way to escape his danger as at least a third of women killed by a partner or ex-partner were killed after leaving him and of these, approximately three-quarters were killed in the first year.

She outlines how one of the most important things about the Femicide Census is that it looks beyond intimate partner violence, for example to women killed through involvement in prostitution. She addresses the need for a huge shift in norms such as socially constructed gender and the objectification of women that are needed to reduce men’s violence against women.

Read the full article on The Guardian website

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