ABSTRACT
Efforts to ‘count’ the killing of women by men have taken diverse forms, including through the work of national death review teams, femicide censuses, and observatories. Likewise, the organizers of these efforts have been diverse, including academics, advocates, government stakeholders, and community organizations. This chapter explores the ways in which the deaths of women killed as a consequence of intimate partner violence are presently counted across the globe. It examines the call by the United Nations Special Rapporteur for the establishment of femicide watches worldwide and considers what international data is kept and reported on femicide. It then considers country- and region-specific counting activities. Here the rise of domestic homicide review teams/panels/networks, public femicide observatories, and femicide initiatives as well as the role of advocates and the visual memorialization of women killed are also considered.
