Incidents of sexism / gender-based violence around the world

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October 2026

• Teenage girl tortured and sexually assaulted in live-streamed attack

  A 14-year-old girl was beaten, tortured and sexually assaulted by her 15-year-old boyfriend at her home during a live broadcast watched by hundreds of people online.

  Oct 8 · Vila Velha, Brazil2 sources

• Students threaten female classmate and teacher with rape in Pénjamo

  A female student and a female teacher at the ENMS Pénjamo high school of the Universidad de Guanajuato were insulted and threatened with rape in a student WhatsApp group after the student defended the teacher's work.

  Oct 8 · Pénjamo, Mexico1 source

• Woman dies after being pushed from Bronx balcony by ex-partner

  A 23-year-old woman died after her former partner allegedly pushed her from a 15th-floor apartment balcony in the Bronx while she was holding her baby.

  Oct 7 · New York City, United States1 source

• Christian Red Cross volunteer shot dead in Sokoto, Nigeria

  A 30-year-old Christian woman volunteering with the Nigerian Red Cross was shot dead when gunmen opened fire on her team's vehicle on the Kajiji-Shagari road in Sokoto state as they returned from field work.

  Oct 6 · Shagari, Nigeria1 source

• Woman held captive and threatened with machetes rescued in Ponta Grossa

  A woman was held captive in her home by her partner for three days and threatened with machetes in Ponta Grossa.

  Oct 6 · Ponta Grossa, Brazil1 source

• Trans activists and sex workers attacked at Mexico City hotel health event

  The owner of Hotel Maga in Mexico City blocked a health day organized by trans collectives and sex workers, used transphobic slurs and had a group of men attack participants, injuring at least 15 people.

  Oct 6 · Mexico City, Mexico1 source

• Man arrested after woman threatened in domestic violence case

  A 47-year-old man was arrested after a woman reported being threatened and intimidated by him at a rural property, where police found damage to the kitchen and an unregistered firearm.

  Oct 5 · Miradouro, Brazil1 source

• Male patient assaults girlfriend and female nurse at North West clinic

  A male patient at a clinic became agitated during a blood pressure check, assaulted his girlfriend, then attacked a female nurse, knocking her to the ground and repeatedly kicking her in the head.

  Oct 4 · Mahikeng, South Africa1 source

• Woman shot and killed by male resident in Bexar County murder-suicide

  A man shot a woman at a home in Northeast Bexar County and then turned the gun on himself; the woman later died at a hospital.

  Oct 4 · Bexar County, United States3 sources

• Misogynistic homecoming sign hung at St. Francis Xavier University

  A sign reading 'Drop-off zone: Acadia girlfriends' was painted on a sheet and hung on an off-campus house during homecoming at St. Francis Xavier University.

  Oct 3 · Antigonish, Canada1 source

• Military police captain assaults two women at São Luís gas station

  A military police captain assaulted two women at a gas station on Avenida Jerônimo de Albuquerque in São Luís, striking one with his weapon and kicking her even after she lost consciousness.

  Oct 3 · São Luís, Brazil1 source

• Women journalists allege sexual harassment by police at Delhi protest

  Three women journalists covering a protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi alleged that police officers sexually harassed them, including one who said she was harassed and pushed back when she questioned an officer.

  Oct 3 · New Delhi, India1 source

• Man stabs ex-partner and her new partner in Lavrio home invasion

  A 32-year-old man broke into his former partner's home in Lavrio, Greece, and stabbed her and her 33-year-old partner.

  Oct 2 · Lavrio, Greece1 source

• Woman killed in intimate femicide in Renaico, Chile

  A 43-year-old woman was found dead in Renaico, in Chile's La Araucanía region, and a man who had a romantic relationship with her was detained as the suspected perpetrator of an intimate femicide.

  Oct 2 · Renaico, Chile1 source

• Man allegedly held ex-partner captive, threatened her with knife

  A man allegedly entered his ex-partner's home and held her captive for hours, threatening to kill her with a knife.

  Oct 2 · La Seu d'Urgell, Andorra1 source

• Deputy commissioner alleges husband assaulted and confined her

  A woman in Rawalpindi filed a complaint alleging her husband physically assaulted her, seized her mobile phone, and locked her in a room, as part of ongoing domestic abuse.

  Oct 2 · Rawalpindi, Pakistan1 source

• Woman stabbed repeatedly by ex-boyfriend at Tennessee factory

  A man attacked his former girlfriend with a box cutter at the Ingram factory in Jackson, Tennessee, grabbing her by the neck and stabbing her more than 30 times in the face and neck.

  Oct 1 · Jackson, United States1 source

• Man arrested after wife and pregnant stepdaughter killed with axe

  A man killed his wife and her 25-year-old pregnant daughter with an axe in the backyard of a house in Jacupiranga, then fled and was arrested at a guesthouse in Pariquera-Açu.

  Oct 1 · Jacupiranga, Brazil1 source

• Nigerian woman trafficked to Mali and forced into prostitution

  A 21-year-old woman from Nasarawa State was lured with a job offer, taken through Lagos and illegal routes into Benin Republic and then to gold-mining settlements in Mali, where she was sold and forced into prostitution.

  Oct 1 · Mali1 source

September 2026

• Man kills wife in premeditated murder-suicide at Palm Coast home

  A man shot and killed his 47-year-old wife inside their Palm Coast home before killing himself in the garage, in what investigators described as a planned murder-suicide.

  Sep 30 · Palm Coast, United States1 source

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