Major General Mmantsheke Lekhele, head of the FCS unit, met with the investigating team to oversee the investigation process.

With more than 100 sexual misconduct cases at schools being investigated, gender-based violence (GBV) advocacy groups and ...

The Femicide Census, a database tracking women killed in the UK, has recorded over 2,000 cases of women murdered ... was needed to cause death, often involving multiple methods of killing.

The report, published by Femicide Census, which has been seen by ... 180 of those women killed by a stranger. In 58 per cent of cases where sons killed their mother, mental ill health was listed ...

he increasing media coverage of the alarming rise in femicide has only intensified public ... patriarchy plays a significant role in these cases. In a patriarchal system, women are frequently ...

Inadequate resources and the poor implementation of laws that are supposed to protect women are hampering the efforts against the scourge of femicide and intimate partner violence (IPV).

If femicide is to end, men must step forward, not as perpetrators, but as protectors and allies.

Ms Ajayi said that the campaign is about presenting evidence-based data on femicide cases in Nigeria, awareness creation and also to advocate for policy reformation and legislation on femicide.