Femicide Monitor to help combat femicide
A woman is murdered every eight days in the Netherlands. Marieke Liem, professor of Security and Interventions at Leiden University, is working on the Femicide Monitor, a public database on femicide in the Netherlands. Femicide is when women are killed because of their gender. More knowledge is vital to protecting women in the future.
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You can leave our website to view this video.‘Our aim is for the discussion on femicide to be informed by empirical data’, says Professor Liem. ‘ Many people think of the scenario where a man beats his wife to death after a long period of abuse. But this appears to be only a fraction of all female murders. As a result, we do not really know whether these are increasing, who the main perpetrators and victims are and what measures work. This information is crucial to policy and prevention.’
‘With the Femicide Monitor, we want to create a public femicide database that tracks all women murdered in the Netherlands. We will base this on official police data and legal records. The infrastructure is in place and now it is a matter of filling it with the cases from the past decade and keeping track of new ones.’
Project ambassador
Huri Sahin, mayor of Rijswijk, is committed to being an ambassador for the Femicide Monitor. 'It is crucial to have scientific material to take the right measures. You need both science and governance to be effective. Femicide is a social problem. Realising the Femicide Monitor helps me and other mayors to take the right steps.'