Aware of the importance of a clear and operational definition of femicide for data analysis and monitoring systems, an extended definition of femicide taking into account the cultural aspects and the possibility of the women act as aggressor and commit femicide. International researchers have made efforts to investigate about femicide concept (Sanz-Barbero et al., 2016). The concept of femicide could be too confusing and too broad because of the gender component. Femicide became frequently used in academic research, epidemiology, public health, politics, social science, laws, policy making even several conceptual theories that have been expanded through observational epidemiological studies. The term femicide was used since 1976 by the sociologist Diana Russell, with the objective of emphasizing differences in the characteristics of the women and men homicides (Russell, 2011). Femicide constitutes a violation of women's rights and can be understood as, the ultimate form of violence against women, which ends in the killing of a woman or women affected. Femicide is the violent death of women based on gender, whether it occurs within the family, a domestic partnership, or any other interpersonal relationship in the community, by any person, or when it is perpetrated or tolerated by the state or its agents, by action or omission (OAS 2008). 1 BACKGROUND 1.1 Description of the conditionįemicide is the killing of women, girls and baby girls because of their gender.
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