Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Domestic Homicide, Gender-Related Homicide, and Femicide: Making Sense of the Terms
This Backgrounder explores the terms domestic homicide, gender-related homicide, and femicide to strengthen understanding and promote prevention of these killings. Rather than competing, these terms are valuable for different reasons and serve to capture diverse phenomenon. They also share a common goal: to call attention to gender-based violence (GBV) and advocate for action to end GBV.
Gender-related Homicide of Women and Girls in Canada
Between 2011 and 2021, police reported 1,125 gender-related homicides of women and girls in Canada. Of these homicides, two-thirds (66%) were perpetrated by an intimate partner, 28% a family member, 5% a friend or acquaintance and the remaining 1% a stranger. While the rate of gender-related homicide of women and girls has generally declined since 2001, there was a 14% increase between 2020 and 2021, marking the highest rate recorded since 2017.
#CallitFemicide 2018-2022 Report
The Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability (CFOJA) has released data for 2022, showing that 184 women and girls were violently killed in Canada last year, primarily by men.
Missing and Murdered: Finding Cleo
Where is Cleo? Taken by child welfare workers in the 1970’s and adopted in the U.S., the young Cree girl’s family believes she was raped and murdered while hitchhiking back home to Saskatchewan. CBC news investigative reporter Connie Walker joins the search to find out what really happened to Cleo.
We Are Resilient: An MMIW True Crime Podcast
We are Resilient is a true crime podcast dedicated entirely to telling the stories of Missing & Murdered Indigenous women (MMIW) from the lens of three Indigenous women.
#CallItFemicide 2021 Report
The Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability (CFOJA) has released data for 2021, showing that 173 women and girls were violently killed in Canada last year.
National Inuit Action Plan on Missing and Murdered Inuit Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people
The National Inuit Action Plan is dedicated to missing and murdered Inuit women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people and their families, friends and communities that have experienced the relentless tragedies of have their relatives go missing or be murdered.
2SLGBTQQIA+ Sub-Working Group: MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ National Action Plan Final Report
This work centers 2SLGBTQQIA+ relatives and kin who are currently missing or went missing and were later found murdered, illustrating the history and background of how Two-Spirit and gender and sexually diverse Indigenous people have been affected by genocide and gendericide.