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Femicide

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Declaration of the enactment of the law against femicide in Chile, 2010

Violence against women
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Murder
Bride burning Dowry death Honor killing Femicide Statistics Infanticide Matricide Pregnant women Sati Sex-selective abortion Sororicide Uxoricide
Sexual assault and rape
Causes of sexual violence Child sexual initiation Sexual violence statistics Forced prostitution Cybersex trafficking Human trafficking Fetish slaves Sexual slavery Violence against prostitutes Post-assault treatment of victims of sexual assault Rape Acquaintance By deception Corrective Date Effects Factors Gang Genocidal History Laws Marital Pregnancy Prevention Prison Statistics Statutory Threat Unacknowledged Wartime Sexual assault Campus Child In Service Mass Secondary victimisation Sexual violence Virgin cleansing myth Widow cleansing
Disfigurement
Acid attack Breast ironing Female genital mutilation Gishiri cutting Infibulation Foot binding
Other issues
Gaslighting Dating abuse Domestic violence outline management and pregnancy Droit du seigneur Eve teasing Forced abortion Force-feeding Forced marriage Forced pregnancy Forced sterilisation Intimate partner violence Marriage by abduction Marry-your-rapist law Online gender-based violence Raptio Religious violence Christianity and domestic violence Islam and domestic violence Sexual bullying Toxic masculinity Witch trials
International legal framework
DEDAW CEDAW VDPA DEVAW Belém do Pará Maputo Istanbul
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Prosecution of gender-targeted crimes Women's shelter 25 November 6 February By country Sex and the law Victimology Violence against LGBTQ people Transfemicide
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Homicide
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Murder
Note: Varies by jurisdiction Assassination Attempted murder Child murder Consensual homicide Contract killing Crime of passion Depraved-heart murder Felony murder rule Foeticide Honor killing Human cannibalism Child cannibalism Human sacrifice Child sacrifice Internet homicide In custody Lonely hearts killer Lust murder Lynching Mass murder Mass shooting Mass stabbing Misdemeanor murder Murder for body parts Murder–suicide Poisoning Proxy murder Pseudocommando Serial killer Angel of mercy Spree killer Thrill killing Torture murder Vehicle-ramming attack Wrongful execution Judicial murder
Manslaughter
In English law In US law In Australian law Voluntary manslaughter Negligent homicide Reckless homicide Vehicular homicide
Non-criminal homicide
Note: Varies by jurisdiction War Assisted suicide Capital punishment Euthanasia Foeticide Justifiable homicide
Family
Familicide Spousal murder Mariticide Uxoricide Prolicide Filicide Infanticide Neonaticide Siblicide Fratricide Sororicide Parricide Matricide Patricide Senicide
Other
Crucifixion Decapitation Deicide Democide Friendly fire Gendercide Androcide Femicide Transfemicide Genocide Omnicide Regicide Stoning Suspicious death Tyrannicide War crime
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Waves
Feminist history Women's history American British Canadian German
First Second Third Fourth
Timelines
Women's suffrage Muslim countries US Other women's rights
Women's suffrage by country
Austria Australia Canada Colombia India Japan Kuwait Liechtenstein New Zealand Philippines Spain Second Republic Francoist Switzerland United Kingdom Cayman Islands Wales United States states

Intersectional variants

Socialist
Fat Lesbian Lesbian of color Radical lesbianism Separatist Sex-positive Transfeminism Postgenderism Vegetarian ecofeminism
Anarchist Queer Marxist Critical theory Standpoint Materialist Ecofeminist Postcolonial Global Transnational Xenofeminism
Multicultural
Africana womanism Black Hip hop Lesbian Ratchet Chicana Lesbian Indigenous