BBC: More mothers killed by sons than by strangers
More women were killed by their son than by a stranger, according to new figures from a campaign group looking at violence against women. The
September 4, 2025
Articles, research and views relating to the femicide census.
More women were killed by their son than by a stranger, according to new figures from a campaign group looking at violence against women. The
Nearly half of women killed by a male partner had either tried to leave or already ended their relationship, a chilling new report has found.
Femicide is not inevitable – it is preventable, the aunt of Zara Aleena said as she called for a 20-year strategy on ending male violence
Four in 10 women who were killed by a male partner had taken steps to leave him, figures show, as Labour’s Jess Phillips admitted the scale
Number is nearly one in 10 of all women killed by men, leading to calls for government action to tackle matricide. Nearly one in 10
The Femicide Census found that 52 women in the UK killed by men in the 10-years ending in 2019, were killed by serving or former
Our piece in the Observer on the failure of the government’s new Tackling Violence Against Women And Girls Strategy to address femicide. Read it here.
The Femicide Census has today [25.11.20] produced its fifth, and most comprehensive, report to date of women killed by men in the UK.
House of Commons – 5 March 2020 – Jess Phillips MP reads out the names of UK women killed by men in the year since last year’s International Women’s Day.
Susan Dalgety looks at the Femicide Census and men’s violence against women and questions the priorities of some of those seeking to lead the Labour Party.