List of incidents of violence against women

This is a list of incidents of violence against women. The cases are sorted by country and year.

Afghanistan[]

• Bibi Aisha
• Malalai Kakar (2008)
• Sahar Gul (2011)
• Sushmita Banerjee (2013)
• Murder of Farkhunda

Australia[]

• Murder of Anita Cobby (1986)
• Ashfield gang rapes (2001-2002)

Brazil[]

Canada[]

• Highway of Tears murders (1969–2011)
• Anna Mae Aquash (1975)
• École Polytechnique massacre (1989)
• Tammy Homolka (1990)
• Leslie Mahaffy (1991)
• Kristen French (1992)
• Maple Batalia (2011)

Colombia[]

• Lissette Ochoa domestic violence case (2006)

Ethiopia[]

• Death of Hanna Lalango (2014)

Germany[]

• New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany (2015)

Greece[]

• 2012 Paros beating and rape

India[]

• Aruna Shanbaug case (1973)
• 1990 Bantala rape case
• Anjana Mishra rape case (1999)
• Imrana rape case (2005)
• Ayesha Miran rape case (2007)
• 2012 Delhi gang rape
• 2013 Kamduni gang rape and murder case
• Suzette Jordan (2013)
• 2014 Birbhum gang rape case
• 2015 Kandhamal gang rape case

Mexico[]

• Susana Chávez (2011)

Nigeria[]

• Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping (2014)

Pakistan[]

• Fareeda Kokikhel Afridi (2012)
• Qandeel Baloch (2016)
• Malala Yousafzai (2012)

Peru[]

• Cindy Arlette Contreras Bautista (2015)

Spain[]

In the last decade about 700 women have been killed in Spain by their partners or ex-partners in cases of violence against women.^[1] Since 1999, the number of killed women is over 1,000.

Sweden[]

• Catharina Ulrika Hjort af Ornäs (1837)
• We Are Sthlm sexual assaults (2015)

Turkey[]

• Pippa Bacca (2008)
• Murder of Özgecan Aslan (2015)

Ukraine[]

• Kateryna Handziuk (2018)

United Arab Emirates[]

• Sarah Balabagan (1994)
• Alicia Gali (2008)
• Death of Esther Mwikamba (2012)

United Kingdom[]

• Murder of Marion Crofts(1981)
• Murder of Colette Aram (1983)
• Babes in the Wood murders (Wild Park) (1986)
• Murder of Linda Cook (1986)
• Murder of Kelly Anne Bates (1996)
• Ipswich serial murders (2006)
• Bradford murders (2009-2010)

United States[]

Other[]

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