Incidents of sexism / gender-based violence around the world

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July 2026

• American woman found dead in her Killarney home; police treat as murder

  A 43-year-old American woman was found dead in her home in Killarney, Ireland, with severe head injuries; police are investigating the death as a murder and a suspect left the country before her body was found.

  Jul 7 · Killarney, Ireland1 source

• Woman and daughter found stabbed to death in burned flat in Mijas

  A 61-year-old woman and her 30-year-old daughter were found dead with stab wounds in a burning flat in Las Lagunas de Mijas, Málaga.

  Jul 7 · Mijas, Spain5 sources

• Woman found dead with signs of sexual violence in Rolim de Moura

  A 31-year-old woman was found dead on the sidewalk of a store in downtown Rolim de Moura, with signs of sexual violence.

  Jul 6 · Rolim de Moura, Brazil1 source

• Man gropes woman in Bologna park under guise of survey

  A man approached a 27-year-old woman in Villa Angeletti park in Bologna, pretended to conduct a survey on Chinese medicine, and tried to touch her foot.

  Jul 5 · Bologna, Italy1 source

• Woman stabbed to death in Itaquera, São Paulo; partner sought

  A 35-year-old real estate broker was stabbed to death in the Itaquera neighborhood of São Paulo's East Zone.

  Jul 5 · São Paulo, Brazil1 source

• German tourist reports sexual assault on Rimini beach

  An 18-year-old German tourist reported being sexually assaulted on the beach in Rimini after leaving a nightclub with a group of friends.

  Jul 5 · Rimini, Italy5 sources

• Woman found in Quito plaza after reporting abduction and sexual violence

  A 34-year-old woman was found in a vulnerable state in the Centro Histórico of Quito after reporting she had been held against her will by two men and had been sexually assaulted.

  Jul 4 · Quito, Ecuador1 source

• Woman killed by husband in suspected domestic violence murder-suicide

  A 58-year-old woman was found shot to death in her Von Ormy home in southwest Bexar County, Texas, in what authorities are investigating as a domestic violence murder-suicide; her 58-year-old husband died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

  Jul 4 · Von Ormy, United States1 source

• 12-year-old girl raped and killed in Baruipur, West Bengal

  A 12-year-old girl was raped and killed in Baruipur, South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal.

  Jul 4 · Baruipur, India3 sources

• Woman killed by her partner in Ciudad del Carmen

  A 42-year-old woman was killed with a bladed weapon by her partner at her home in Ciudad del Carmen, where she was caring for three girls and her son.

  Jul 4 · Ciudad del Carmen, Uruguay1 source

• Off-duty officer fires at wife's SUV before fatal standoff

  An off-duty Florence police officer fired shots into his wife's SUV and home in Boone County, Kentucky, after she fled with her children to a neighbor's house.

  Jul 3 · Kentucky, United States1 source

• Woman reports being raped in Avellino city centre

  A 34-year-old woman was found in a confused state near the tunnel in Piazza Garibaldi in Avellino and reported being attacked and raped.

  Jul 3 · Avellino, Italy1 source

• Man arrested for chasing ex-partner with machete in Palma

  A man threatened, insulted, struck with a branch, threw a knife at, and chased his ex-partner with a half-meter machete in the Son Gotleu neighborhood of Palma.

  Jul 3 · Palma, Spain1 source

• Man kills wife and daughter, wounds second daughter in Alicante home

  A man killed his 51-year-old wife and 20-year-old daughter with a knife and seriously wounded his other 26-year-old daughter at the family home in a rural area of Alicante.

  Jul 2 · Alicante, Spain4 sources

• Male students investigated over list ranking female classmates as 'most rapeable'

  Male students at the Udesc campus in Balneário Camboriú created a list ranking at least eight female students under the label 'most rapeable', with insults about their bodies and skin color.

  Jul 1 · Balneário Camboriú, Brazil1 source

• Woman killed by her partner in Central Havana

  A 26-year-old mother of two was killed by her partner, the father of her children, at their shared residence in Central Havana.

  Jul 1 · Havana, Cuba1 source

• Woman's body found in well in Rincón de la Victoria in gender-violence killing

  The body of a young woman reported missing since March was found in a well near the motorway in Rincón de la Victoria, Málaga.

  Jul 1 · Rincón de la Victoria, Spain1 source

• Woman stabbed and seriously injured in Ibros, investigated as gender violence

  A woman was stabbed and seriously injured by a man in the municipality of Ibros, in the province of Jaén.

  Jul 1 · Ibros, Spain1 source

• School staff in Bordeaux accused of sexual violence against pupils

  An Atsem and an after-school activity leader at the Frida-Kahlo school in Bordeaux were removed after several complaints of rape and sexual assault against pupils.

  Jul 1 · Bordeaux, France1 source

June 2026

• Police officer shoots wife in domestic violence incident

  A police officer shot his wife with his service weapon during a domestic violence incident and then took his own life.

  Jun 30 · Limassol, Cyprus2 sources

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