Femicide

Risk Assessment Failures Lead to Femicide: Lessons Unlearned

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Truro, Cornwall – The tragic death of charity worker Michaela Hall at the hands of her partner, Lee Kendall, has raised serious concerns about the failures in the probation service that allowed a serial violent offender to commit femicide. Despite numerous warning signs and a history of abuse, Kendall was wrongly assessed as only a … Read more

Femicide Crisis Erupts in Somalia as Husbands Named as Suspects in Separate Murders of Pregnant Women

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Mogadishu, Somalia – The deaths of three women in one week, allegedly at the hands of their husbands, have caused public outrage and sparked protests throughout Somalia over the country’s femicide rates. The suspects in all three killings, which occurred in the first week of February, have been identified as the victims’ husbands. This has … Read more