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femicide

intentional killing of females because of their gender
Event type_of_homicide Q1342425
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Summary

femicide is a type of homicide[1]. femicide draws 8,275 Wikipedia views per month (type of homicide category, ranking #10 of 15).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: gendercide[3]
  • Commons category: Femicide[4]
  • Opposite of: androcide[5]
  • Target: female[6], trans woman[7]
  • Described at URL: https://www.femicidecensus.org/[8], https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/77421/WHO_RHR_12.38_eng.pdf?sequence=1[9], https://eige.europa.eu/thesaurus/terms/1128[10], https://femicideincanada.ca/sites/default/files/2017-12/VIENNA%20%282012%29%20DECLARATION%20ON%20FEMICIDE.pdf[11]
  • Facet of: violence against women[12]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Art+Feminism[13], gender gap on Dutch Wikipedia[14]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: Amazone gender mainstreaming[15], WikiProject Feminism[16]

Why It Matters

femicide has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] femicide is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

Related Entities

Delmira Agustini Rebecca Cheptegei

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . unwomen.org. unwomen.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . bpb.de. Retrieved . bpb.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_femicide_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{femicide}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/femicide}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-15}}
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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 18d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → femicide
    Sitelink count → 54
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'as', 'ast', 'az', 'bg', 'bn', 'br', 'ca', 'ckb', 'commons', 'cs', 'da',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: femicide, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289925207|femicide (#289925207)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n"
  2. 17w ago · StarTrekker · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Quora topic id → Femicide
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Quora topic id: Femicide"
  3. 18w ago · RosaHimmelblau · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Target → female, trans woman
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Target: trans woman"
  4. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Opposite of → androcide
    Instance of → type of homicide
    Target → female, trans woman
    Subclass of → —
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007560916605171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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