femicide
Murdering female victims
Femicide is the killing of a woman or girl, specifically because of her sex.
The term emphasizes gender-based violence—murders rooted in misogyny, domestic abuse, or cultural practices that devalue female life: Femicide rates have risen in the region.
Distinguished from the gender-neutral homicide to draw attention to patterns of violence against women.
Male-dominated social order
- misogynyHostility toward women
- sexismGender-based prejudice
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
inequality · impunity · machismo · objectification · dehumanization · victim-blaming · underreporting · normalization
Pursuing legal charges
- convictionFirmly held belief
- acquittalFormal clearing of charges
- impunityFreedom from consequences
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
criminalization · sentencing · investigation · evidence · forensics · perpetrator · accountability · tribunal
Deliberate unlawful killing
- killingCausing death deliberately
- sororicideMurdering one's own sister
- strangulationDeath by neck compression
- stabbingWounding with a blade
battering · perpetrator · victim · survivor · premeditated · serial · targeted
Thing preserving remembrance
- vigilPurposeful nighttime wakefulness
- marchRhythmic group walk
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
- activismDirect effort for reform
remembrance · tribute · solidarity · anniversary · documentation · testimony · storytelling · healing
patriarchy
Male-dominated social order
- misogynyHostility toward women
- sexismGender-based prejudice
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
oppression · inequality · impunity · machismo · objectification · dehumanization · victim-blaming · underreporting · normalization · epidemic
prosecution
Pursuing legal charges
- convictionFirmly held belief
- acquittalFormal clearing of charges
- impunityFreedom from consequences
legislation · criminalization · sentencing · investigation · evidence · forensics · perpetrator · accountability · tribunal · advocacy
murder
Deliberate unlawful killing
- killingCausing death deliberately
- sororicideMurdering one's own sister
- strangulationDeath by neck compression
stabbing · battering · perpetrator · victim · survivor · premeditated · serial · targeted
memorial
Thing preserving remembrance
- vigilPurposeful nighttime wakefulness
- marchRhythmic group walk
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
activism · remembrance · tribute · solidarity · anniversary · documentation · testimony · storytelling · healing
- feminismfeminism, feminist theory, gender equality, women's rights, feminist novels
- -cide wordsfungicide, herbicide, insecticide, bactericide, germicide
- regional crisespoverty, inequality, violence, crime, corruption
- Latin crimedrug trafficking, drug cartel, gang violence, kidnapping, human trafficking
- injusticeinjustice, inequality, discrimination, bias, prejudice
- domestic abusedomestic violence, battering, batterer, spousal abuse, wife beating
femicidewomen's liberation
Movement for female equality
female empowerment · women's rights · gender equality · feminism · women's refuge