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Already since we created image below, we have added another
#femicide
for first 6 months in 2024 & 3 more victims in July.
That does not include growing list of suspicious deaths, many of which will end up as
#femicide
.
Time to
#CallItFemicide
,
#Canada
?
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On
#Dec6
, with the rest of
#Canada
, we remember the 14 women's lives lost in 1989.
#MontrealMassacre
And we remember the 1,000s of women and girls lost since and who we continue to lose, including the 169 women and girls in 2023 so far.
#CallItFemicide
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Kills "ex-wife & her new boyfriend", "had some issues with his girlfriend" and "just being jealous about things with her". How often do we have to hear this before we
#CallItFemicide
. It impacts women, children, men, communities.
#WakeUpCanada
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@eldritchmother
Do you really think it's women that make it unsafe for men to be vulnerable?
How about the impact of men on other men?
It is not always women's fault, but that is the message of patriarchy at its finest.
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Ottawa police officer found guilty of threatening to kill a woman during a domestic dispute, while in possession of a knife faces 2 counts of discreditable conduct laid by force.
He remains on active duty.
Why is he an officer if convicted of crimes?
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Canadian transport minister slammed by Twitter, J.K. Rowling for 'insulting' video
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@AlanFreestone
@BBCBreaking
And above is the best example of the problem with our society. It is never a man's problem; it's always the woman/women who is/are to blame.
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1 in 5 women killed in Canada in 2020 were Indigenous, says new report
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Beginning Nov. 25, the first day of
#16DaysofActivism
, we will remember all women & girls killed violently, mostly by men, in Canada since Jan. 1, 2021.
Please join us in remembering & retweet during
#16Days
#RememberMe
#souvenezvousdemoi
#LetsEndFemicide
#30YearsOfActivism
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On Dec. 6, the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, we provide preliminary numbers for women & girls killed in Canada in 2021, primarily by men. (1/2)
#CallItFemicide
#LetsEndFemicide
#30YearsOfActivism
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It seems most fitting to share this today.
In 1994, we called it
#femicide
.
Today, we still
#CallItFemicide
.
30 years later, we're still trying to battle
#MVAWG
&
#femicide
with little leadership from
#governments
.
In Memory of Nicole Brown Simpson
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We keep trying to retweet the story below, but
#Twitter
won't let us because it has been identified as potentially harmful.
Seriously?
Good news for women in Belgium; at least
#femicide
is symbolically recognized as an issue. First step.
#CallItFemicide
,
#Canada
.
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37 women and girls have been killed in Canada already in 2022, mostly by men.
That's 1 woman or girl every 1.5 days.
That's 1 woman or girl every 36 hours.
That's 1 too many.
That's enough.
#CallItFemicide
#LetsEndFemicide
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6 years ago today, a lone, white male drove a van down a busy street in
#Toronto
, killing 9 women & 2 men, injuring multiple other individuals.
We remember the victims & recognize the ongoing trauma their families/friends face today.
#Misogyny
is real.
#RemembeMe
👇
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#CFOJA
Inaugural report available here: . Help us increase awareness of femicide as a serious social, legal, public health and human rights issue
#CallItFemicide
@FemicideWatch
@acunsvienna
@UN_Women
@Women_Canada
@JusticeCanadaEN
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The next time you ask, 'Why didn't she leave? Don't.
48 hours after divorce court win, abused woman's Calgary house burned to the ground | CBC News
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Toronto police didn’t investigate.
38 hours later, they found this woman dead in a room with her alleged killer
#CallItFemicide
via
@torontostar
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'Domestic incident'? She did not burn the toast. She was killed by a man. Call it what it is!
#CallItFemicide
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Beginning Nov. 25, we commemorate International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (
#IDEVAW2023
) with our
#RememberMe
annual campaign.
This campaign remembers each woman or girl killed by violence in 2023, most often by men.
#NeverForgotten
#CallItFemicide
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Quebec man believed to have killed 2 young sons "recently arrested for harassing his spouse."
Patterns to these stories never vary.
If we cannot
#CallItFemicide
, we can attribute it to
#femicidal
contexts.
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It was not a 'domestic' situation.
Someone did not burn a slice of toast.
There was no fire in the frying pan.
A woman's hands and feet were bound and she was thrown/pushed from upper level balcony to her death.
#CallItFemicide
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If only one woman comes forward, it's not enough.
If too many women come forward, it's too much.
It's
#patriarchy
at its best.
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Man who kills estranged wife o/s an elementary school in Calgary earlier today was facing criminal charges for
#DV
and was charged with twice violating a no-contact order
#CallItFemicide
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Below also means that we may not be reaching our followers.
Like this tweet if you see it please.
Given we are a violence
#prevention
initiative, located at a university & our work draws attention to
#MVAWG
&
#femicide
...
Given amount of abuse we've been subjected to which we ignore or mute...
It's amazing we have received this from
@X
.
It is not us who needs the label.
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And, today, along with 14 female victims of Montreal Massacre lost 32 years ago in a mass
#femicide
, we ask you to remember victims of 2021 and all those women & girls lost before and after Dec. 6, 1989. (2/2)
#CallItFemicide
#LetsEndFemicide
#30YearsOfActivism
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It’s not love. It's hate.
It’s not passion. It's control.
It’s not rough sex. It's rape.
It’s not honour. It's violence against women and girls.
It's not only homicide. It’s femicide.
No woman or girl deserved it, but society allows it.
#CallItFemicide
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Moral to this story?
Apparently, it is if you are going to commit sexual assault, make sure to be a police officer first.
No jail time for Hamilton police officer who sexually assaulted woman he was mentoring, judge rules
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“He simply lost his temper”?????
No, it appears he had presence of mind to find poison and to use it to kill his wife.
Another
#femicide
subject to the
#IntimacyDiscount
.
#CallItFemicide
Frustrated with his life, Meota man poisons wife with strychnine
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Pretty sure that their happy wedding picture is not appropriate here
@ctvnews
given that he is charged with killing her!
#CallItFemicide
Pierrefonds man charged with first-degree murder of his wife, Robyn-Krystle O'Reilly, 34.
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"12 jurors gave a brutal killer a double discount down from murder one to manslaughter b/c he felt bad about his penis size is an insult to Julie, all women & civilized society."
Wendy Murphy: Small penis defense results in manslaughter conviction
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This is NOT a 'family drama'.
It is male violence that most often leaves children and women dead.
2 children dead, man in custody after domestic incident in Laval, Que.
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Police find DNA of another 12 women at Winnipeg killer’s apartment
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Why is 'domestic homicide' a more accepted term than 'femicide'?
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In
#Canada
, we continue to lose a woman or girl about every two days - every 48 hours - somewhere in our country.
Is that acceptable to you,
#Canada
?
For more on
#femicide
& the need to recognize it as a distinct crime, see
#CallItFemicide
report at:
.
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On Nov. 25,
#CFOJA
launched
#FemicideIs
campaign to⬆️awareness about how/why women/girls are killed globally, mostly by men
To understand why it is important to
#CallItFemicide
, use
#FemicideIs
in 2022-2023
Read:
#LetsEndFemicide
#16daysofactivism2022
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Ending 'society’s silence': Halton Region declares intimate partner violence epidemic in Oakville and Burlington as well as Milton and Halton Hills via
@InsideHalton
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Today, along with the rest of Canada and many around the world, we remember 14
#femicide
victims of the
#MontrealMassacre
and all
#femicide
victims lost before & after. We hope for a better world for women, girls going forward.
#16DaysofActivism
. See
#CFOJA
annual report at -
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Nov. 25 is the International Day for Elimination of
#VAWG
and the beginning of
#16DaysofActivism2020
.
As part of our activism, as in previous years, we launch our
#RememberMe
campaign to remember each of the women & girls killed by violence to date in Canada in 2020...
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On last day of year, we document 182 women & girls killed in 2022 so far.
It was 173 in 2021 & 160 in 2020.
Numbers continue to rise.
Let one New Year's resolution be...
...to learn what
#FemicideIs
& why important to
#CallItFemicide
.
We can help at
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Today, we honour & remember the lives of 14 female victims of the
#MontrealMassacre
(see: )
We also honour & remember lives of the 1000s of women & girls lost to
#femicide
in
#Canada
before & since (2018-2022, see:
#CallItFemicide
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"...victims were a man, woman and two children."
We've seen this too many times before - there are likely only 3 victims.
4 people found dead in southwestern Ontario town of Harrow
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It was
#femicide
@CBCNews
.
#CallitFemicide
Read this and ask how this man could have been allowed to plead to manslaughter.
Despicable.
#CallItFemicide
#IntimacyDiscount
Woman who suffered 141 wounds in domestic homicide 'fought for her life.'
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92 women and girls killed, mostly by men, in the first half of 2021 in Canada.
For more information, see 👇
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When a man lights a woman on fire, it is not a 'random attack'.
It is not 'random' that he selected a woman.
He selected a woman on purpose.
That is not random.
Woman lit on fire in 'random' attack on Toronto bus, police say
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Today, along with the rest of Canada and many around the world, we remember 14
#femicide
victims of the
#MontrealMassacre
and all
#femicide
victims lost before & after. We hope for a better world for women, girls going forward.
#16DaysofActivism
. See
#CFOJA
annual report at -
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Judge: Sometimes 'good people do terrible things'???
Yes, they do, but good 'people' (aka 'men') do not strangle a woman with a boot lace & leave her on the side of the road to die.
#CallItFemicide
#RememberMe
#VictoriaHead
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We're beginning to think our mere existence violates
#ElonMusk
's rules👇
#Violence
#Prevention
with emphasis on women & girls, esp.
#MVAWG
&
#femicide
. Yep!
We will not be erased
@X
.
We are a civil society organization focusing on prevention of violence.
#CallItFemicide
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Preliminary numbers for first 6 months of 2022.
88 women/girls killed, mostly by men.
1 woman or girl continues to be killed every other day.
This is
#Canada
.
#CallItFemicide
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It's time to remove word 'shocking' from available descriptors of
#femicide
.
It should no longer be shocking, unless referring to lack of response by global leaders to the issue.
More Shocking Details Emerge About Man’s Murder-Suicide Of 2 Women In Perth
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In England and Wales...
Domestic abusers to be added to violent and sex offender register in new crackdown
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Male arrested and police say "there is no ongoing risk to public safety."
We all know what that is code for.
#CallItFemicide
?
6 dead, incl. 4 children, in Ottawa mass shooting
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144 women and girls killed, mostly by men, during 10 months in
#Canada
.
That is, on average, 14 women and girls killed per month.
That is about 1 woman or girl every second day.
That is too much.
#CallItFemicide
#LetsEndFemicide
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2 died.
Woman not worth mentioning in headline
@CP24
?
BREAKING: Two-year-old among the dead in Vaughan, Ont. quadruple shooting: police
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Media tip: If a man kills a woman and then himself, don't write a headline that reads "Man, woman die in incident." Write instead: "Man kills woman, then himself." Better yet, write: "Man commits
#femicide
-suicide." Make it clear.
#CallItFemicide
.
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#Femicide
is not about how many women/girls killed compared to men/boys.
It's about why and how women/girls killed which is distinct from how men/boys are killed - but most killed primarily by men, regardless of sex of victim.
#CallItFemicide
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Both cases continue to raise questions about the actions of police. What answers do we have so far?
#MMIWG
#SayHerName
Funerals held for Toronto woman who fell from balcony and Indigenous woman shot by police
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#Femicide
is not about # of women killed compared to men.
It's about how/why women killed, distinct from how men killed, both killed by primarily men. See below:
#UNODC
:
#OAS
:
#LAMP
:
#CallItFemicide
CTV's article lede: "Cases of homicide among women and girls, known as femicides, are rapidly increasing across Canada as one report details more than 800 women and girls have been killed since 2018"
@CAN_Femicide
@MelissaLopezMZ
My response ⬇️
#femicide
#GBV
#cdnpoli
#cdnmedia
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May 5 is
#RedDressDay
.
Today, please help to raise awareness about
#MMIWG2S
in
#Canada
.
Do you want to know more?
Please read: Reclaiming Power & Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into
#MMIWG
at
#CallItFemicide
#NoMoreStolenSisters
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They were killed by men.
Why is that so hard to say
@CTVVancouver
?
#CallItFemicide
, at the very least when the story IS about femicide.
Vigil held for B.C. women killed by suspected domestic violence in 2022
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As we approach
#IWD2024
, remember that 27 women & girls have been killed in the first 2 months of this year so far, mostly by men.
This year, it's a call to action we need.
#CallItFemicide
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In 5 years, that means we have lost the current and future potential of over 850 women.
What would our world look like if they were allowed to live?
For more information, download
#CalltFemicide
report at:
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It took 30 years for Montréal Massacre to be recognized as mass
#femicide
.
Are we following same path with
#NSMassKillings
?
No public inquiry to shed light on how acts rooted in
#misogyny
.
Montréal Massacre is finally recognized as anti-feminist attack
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This is not a "violent family dispute."
It is
#femicide
.
#CallItFemicide
@CBCNews
and educate the Prince Albert Police at the same time.
Man charged with murder of Beverly Constant hours after being released from Prince Albert, Sask., police custody
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No one deserves to be treated like trash!
#SearchTheLandfill
#BradyLandfill
#MMIWG2S
#CallItFemicide
#Genocide
Demand action from your leaders.
#BringMorganHome
#BringMarcedesHome
#BringBuffaloWomanHome
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A hotel room was not killed.
A woman was killed.
Write headlines that say what actually happened.
#CallItFemicide
Suspect in hotel room homicide still awaiting hearing date
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Woman dead after Thunder Bay police don't respond to domestic disturbance call: SIU
#CallItFemicide
#StateFemicide
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Every year, no change in this story.
When will change happen?
5 years after
#MMIWG
inquiry's final report, former commissioners still waiting for progress
#CallItFemicide
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Once we change the language, perhaps we will take it more seriously.
Thank you for calling it
#femicide
.
#CallItFemicide
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Beginning today, Nov. 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (
#IDVAW2019
), and continuing through the
#16DaysOfActivism
, the
#CFOJA
will remember all women and girls killed by violence in Canada in 2019.
#RememberMe
.
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Intimate partner violence an ‘epidemic’ in Canada, say experts - Winnipeg
#CallItFemicide
Name it what is is - that is the first step in a solution.
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Calls for Canada to add
#femicide
to criminal code amid gender-based violence epidemic in Mississauga and Brampton | inBrampton
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“So it gets to the point where, what more can women do?” I think it’s now about saying, ‘What can men do?"
#CFOJA
Director Myrna Dawson.
Canada saw increase in killings of women and girls in 2020, report finds
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4 months.
50 women and girls killed mostly by men.
How many women is enough,
#Canada
?
#CalltFemicide
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No words, just disgust for incompetence.
Woman's burnt body mistaken for mannequin, put in dumpster in Sherbrooke | CBC News
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"Pickett, a doctor, was last seen on Tuesday when she testified in court."
What type of case?
Is that not suspicious in and of itself?
Missing Vancouver woman, Tracy Picket, found dead, police say crime not suspected
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This is what happens when governments do not provide sustained funding over time.
Who suffers in addition to frontline workers?
Mostly women and children.
Reports highlight staff burnouts in women’s shelters, violence against women
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1 week into January 2022:
4 women killed, 3 by male accused.
1 remains unsolved - no accused identified.
2 of 4 women killed, sons charged in their deaths.
How many more,
#Canada
?
#CallitFemicide
#LetsEndFemicide
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Common excuses for
#femicide
:
She insulted me.
She nagged me.
She cheated on me.
She tried to leave me.
She left me.
She wouldn't do what I said.
She made me so angry.
Admit it - she existed.
That was enough.
#CallItFemicide
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If we
#CallItFemicide
, we can legitimize femicide as a social problem worthy of urgent attention and raise its visibility.
For more on why it's important to treat
#femicide
as a distinct crime, see Section II of the
#CallItFemicide
report at:
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#RememberMe
– Shu-Min Wu, 50,
#WomanKilled
on February 20, 2022 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
#CallItFemicide
#Cestunf
émicide
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We appreciate the likes.
Reposts or retweets create social change.
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In 2019, a total of 118 women, girls were killed by violence in Canada. On average, every three days, one woman or girl is killed in this country. See 2nd
#CallItFemicide
Report:
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All too often, men accused of violence against female partners released back into community, despite previous violence & consistent failure to comply with orders.
More education, training needed for judges who make such decisions.
#CallItFemicide
See further details below.
25-y-o Darian Henderson-Bellman has been ID’ed as the victim of Tuesday’s fatal shooting in Brampton. 27-y-o Darnell Reid who remains in critical condition with a gunshot wound, is charged with Second Degree Murder, possession of a loaded firearm, fail to comply with release X2
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As
@JustinTrudeau
@StephenMcNeil
consider need for feminist analysis in
#NSMassKillings
public inquiry, let's remember following:
There’s stark & startling connection in deadliest mass shootings to
#VAWG
()
This is particularly relevant in
#NSMassKilling
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A four year-old is dead because the legal system failed to protect her from her abusive father -
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TW//
He murdered a 21-year-old Indigenous woman, sexually assaulted & beat her before running her over with a truck, & then lit her naked body on fire & dragged her in chains behind his vehicle?
...then he was given chance to stalk new victims
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Women are not garbage. Women are not disposable.
#CallItFemicide
because
#FemicideIs
👇
#MMIWG
#Genocide
Woman's body found in Winnipeg landfill: police
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@YH_Himself
@emiliavalos
@JamaicanHoney
@Jacob_Frey
Femicide is an internationally recognized term. Please see below if interested in knowing more.
#LAMP
:
#FemicideWatch
:
#UNODC
:
And for more resources.
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Another woman killed in
#Canada
.
No name released yet. She was 71.
Her 38-year-old son has been arrested.
Woman found dead, son arrested in Richmond: IHIT
#CallItFemicide
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