Femicide: associations join forces for a more inclusive count of all violence

The topic was raised in 2022: is the count of femicides really representative of this scourge when it perennially underlines the murders of women in the context of couples or separation?

This Tuesday, January 3, a new militant body, theFemicides Inter Orga, announced that it has undertaken work to identify misogynistic hate crimes, whether they occur in the marital sphere, but also in other contexts. She intends to no longer make these killings invisible, which affect other vulnerable minority groups who are particularly affected by violence, especially trans women and prostitutes.

It will bring together several associations: Acceptess T, Les Dévalideuses, the Red Umbrella Federation and We All are open to other contributions from associations or collectives.

Because it is necessary to see beyond the feminicides of the spouse or ex-spouse

Inter Orga feminicides point out the consequences What about a review of feminicides that would focus only on uxoricides, i.e. the murders of women by their spouses: “1 – it is forgetting the most precarious 2 – it is establishing a norm according to which violence is normal outside the couple: to protect oneself from violence one must be in a heterosexual couple”

In recent years the media have increasingly neglected its expression “crime of passion” – which is undeniable progress – and sometimes goes so far as to question and investigate the mechanisms of domestic violence to see beyond the simple fact and the isolated case. This new methodology will therefore be implemented in order to no longer make certain systemic violence invisible and no longer restrict feminicides to the couple’s sphere alone, and will therefore, we hope, encourage the evolution of journalistic reflexes to deal with these cases.

In January 2022, We All announced their pick to no longer transmit the identified figures by the collective Féminicides Par Compagnons ou Ex, after transphobic comments made on Twitter about a woman who asked them if trans women were counted among women killed by their spouse or ex.

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