Violence against women

The murder of Sylvia Likens occurred in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States in October 1965.

(The native form of this personal name is Ecsedi Báthory Erzsébet. This article uses the Western name order.) Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed (Hungarian: Báthory Erzsébet, Romanian: Elisabeta Bathory, Slovak: Alžbeta Bátoriová ; 7 August 1560 – 21 August 1614) was a serial killer from the Báthory family of nobility in the Kingdom of Hungary.

Forced marriage is a marriage in which one or both of the parties is married without his or her consent or against his or her will.

Jane Toppan aka (Jolly Jane) (1857–1938), born Honora Kelley, was an American serial killer.

Magdalene asylums, also known as Magdalene laundries, were institutions from the 18th to the late 20th centuries ostensibly to house "fallen women", a term used to imply female sexual promiscuity or work in prostitution.

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The White Ribbon Campaign (WRC) is a global movement of men and boys working to end male violence against women and girls.

The rate of sexual violence in South Africa is among the highest in the world.

Bride kidnapping, also known as marriage by abduction or marriage by capture, is a practice in which a man abducts the woman he wishes to marry.

Mass sexual assault is the collective sexual assault of women in public by groups of unrelated men.

The Feminist (history as gender struggle) view of women in the Arab world, is that as in other areas of the world, have throughout history experienced discrimination and have been subject to restrictions of their freedoms and rights.

The Luby's massacre was a mass shooting that took place on October 16, 1991, at a restaurant in Killeen, Texas, United States.

RapeLay (レイプレイ Reipurei) is a 3D eroge video game made by Illusion, released on April 21, 2006 in Japan.

Women's rights in Saudi Arabia are limited in comparison to many of its neighbors.

Foot binding was the custom of applying painfully tight binding to the feet of young girls to prevent further growth.

Pregnancy is a potential result of rape.

A women's shelter, also known as a women's refuge and battered women's shelter, is a place of temporary protection and support for women escaping domestic violence and intimate partner violence of all forms.

Peggy Antrobus (born 1935) is a feminist activist, author, and scholar from the Caribbean.

James Clifford Carson (aka Michael Bear Carson) (born 1950) and Suzan Barnes Carson (aka Suzan Bear Carson) (born 1941) are serial killers convicted for three murders between 1982 and 1983 in Northern California and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Quasi-state level Islamist groups, including Boko Haram and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, have captured and enslaved women and children, often for sexual slavery.

Wanda Jean Allen (August 17, 1959 – January 11, 2001) was sentenced to death in 1989 for the murder of Gloria Jean Leathers, 29.

The term "missing women" indicates a shortfall in the number of women relative to the expected number of women in a region or country.

Patricia Dianne Krenwinkel (born December 3, 1947) is an American murderer and a former member of Charles Manson's "Family".

Acid Survivors Trust International (ASTI) is the only organisation in the world working at the international level to end acid and burns violence.

The Expert Group Meeting (EGM): prevention of violence against women and girls was convened as part of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women's multi-year programme of work for 2010-2014.

SAWA is a Palestinian, non-profit civil society organization established in 1998 by a group of female volunteers active in women's issues.

#YesAllWomen is a Twitter hashtag and social media campaign in which users share examples or stories of misogyny and violence against women.

Leslie Louise Van Houten (born August 23, 1949) is an American convict serving a life sentence for murder in relation to the 1969 killings of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, when Van Houten was 19 years old.

The Feminist Peace Network (FPN) advocates for the human rights of women and raises awareness about misogyny and the global pandemic of violence against women violence against women.

Safe Horizon, formerly the Victim Services Agency, is the largest victim services non-profit organization in the United States, providing social services for victims of abuse and violent crime in 57 locations throughout the five boroughs of New York City.

Sex trafficking is composed of two aspects: sexual slavery and human trafficking.

This is a list of incidents of violence against women.

Domestic violence within lesbian relationships is the pattern of violent and coercive behavior in a female same-sex relationship where a lesbian or other non-heterosexual woman seeks to control the thoughts, beliefs, or conduct of her female intimate partner.

Forced prostitution, also known as involuntary prostitution, is prostitution or sexual slavery that takes place as a result of coercion by a third party.

Visolela Rosalinda "Rosa" Namises (born 1958), nicknamed the "Rosa Luxemburg of Namibia", is a Namibian politician and human rights activist.

Mari Gilbert (June 22, 1964 – July 23, 2016) was an American activist and murder victim advocate.

Kimberly LaGayle McCarthy (May 11, 1961 – June 26, 2013) was an American death row inmate who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1997 murder of her neighbor, 71-year-old retired college professor Dorothy Booth, in her Lancaster, Texas (Dallas–Fort Worth area) home during a robbery.

Nicole Abusharif (born September 14, 1980) is an American woman, convicted of the 2007 Villa Park, Illinois murder of her domestic partner, Rebecca "Becky" Klein.

Maria del Rosio “Rosie” Alfaro (born October 12, 1971) is an American woman convicted of the 1990 murder of nine-year-old Autumn Wallace in Anaheim, California.

The social news site Reddit has occasionally been the topic of controversy due to the presence of communities on the site (known as subreddits) devoted to explicit material.

Gendercide is the systematic killing of members of a specific sex.