• PLoS medicine · Jan 2024

    Understudied and underaddressed: Femicide, an extreme form of violence against women and girls.

    • Chen Reis and Sarah R Meyer.
    • Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States of America.
    • PLoS Med. 2024 Jan 1; 21 (1): e1004336e1004336.

    AbstractLittle is known about the prevalence and dynamics of femicide, a persistent form of violence against women and girls, due to challenges associated with its documentation. Research by Abrahams and colleagues comparing rates of femicide in South Africa over 18 years, however, suggests that femicide is preventable.Copyright: © 2024 Reis, Meyer. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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