Femicide Census Comment on Minister Jess Philip’s Reading the names of women killed where the suspect is male (2026)
Today (Thursday 12 March 2026) Jess Philips MP will stand in parliament and read the names of 100 women killed in the UK by men
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Today (Thursday 12 March 2026) Jess Philips MP will stand in parliament and read the names of 100 women killed in the UK by men
For the first time ever, the Government has used the word femicide – the killing of women and girls – in its strategy to tackle men’s violence against women and girls and does so three times. However …

The Femicide Census publishes its annual report on women killed by men in the UK in 2022 Today (Tuesday 2nd September 2025), the Femicide Census

Our report, on women killed by men in 2021 is released, just days before a general election. Since the Conservative government came to power in May 2010, the lives of at least 1,924 women have been cut short by men. That’s an average of one woman dead at the hands of a man every 2.7 days. It is vital that the incoming government understands that it is not good enough to leave femicide reform to grieving families and loved ones.
After 27-year-old Kulsuma Akter was stabbed to death in the street in Bradford, it emerged that Habibur Masum, 25, wanted and since arrested in relation
For the ninth consecutive year, Jess Phillips MP will read out the names of UK women killed by men or killed in circumstances where a
The Femicide Census has requested a review of the sentence of Mark Clowes in respect of the death of Clare Bell under the Unduly Lenient

**Press Release** 2020 and 2019 Femicide Census Reports Over a two-year period 238 women were killed where a man was charged in the UK. As