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THE MISSING CRIME: FEMICIDE IN AFRICAN LEGAL SYSTEMS - Amnesty Kenya

Diana Russell, a pioneer researcher on violence against women, is credited as having popularized the use of the term ‘femicide’ to describe the killing of women because of their gender. She used the term publicly when she testified on the crimes against women during the first International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women held in Belgium in 1976. In a 2022 report, UN Women and UNODC estimated that in 2023, Africa had over 20,000 women killed by …
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Amnesty International Kenya broke the news in on Wednesday, December 10, 2025.
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