Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 24th Oct. UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Morris Tidball-Binz on Monday said that femicide is the killing of women because of their gender, has reached “pandemic proportions” worldwide as countries fail in their duty to protect women, including trans women.
She said that perpetrators are mostly, but not exclusively, partners or ex-partners, and often escape accountability “due to a lack of proper investigation”.
A 2022 report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and UN Women showed more than five women or girls are killed every hour by an intimate partner or someone in their own family – that’s some 45,000 per year – and the true scale of the problem is believed to be much higher.
He called on countries to “take every possible step” to investigate and prosecute femicides and provide effective support, remedies and reparations to victims and their families.
Morris Tidball-Binz stressed that local beliefs, customs, traditions or religions “must not be invoked to limit the rights of women and girls or as a defence against a charge of femicide”.
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