Incidents of sexism / gender-based violence around the world

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June 2026

• Periodista denuncia agresión sexual de funcionario de Toluca en Chorifest

  Una periodista denunció que un servidor público del Ayuntamiento de Toluca la sujetó del brazo y la muñeca y realizó tocamientos indebidos durante la inauguración del evento Chorifest, en Toluca.

  Jun 20 · Toluca, Mexico1 source

• Indigenous Mixtec women assaulted by municipal authorities in Oaxaca

  The municipal president of Santa María Apazco, Oaxaca, accompanied by his council and local security personnel, led a violent confrontation in which Indigenous Mixtec women were physically, verbally and psychologically assaulted, leaving them with bodily injuries.

  Jun 19 · Santa María Apazco, Mexico1 source

• Man kills wife at home in Angke, West Jakarta

  A 30-year-old man killed his wife at their home on Jalan Padamulya VIII in Angke, Tambora, West Jakarta.

  Jun 19 · Jakarta, Indonesia1 source

• Three schoolgirls sexually assaulted in attack on students in North Kivu

  Unidentified armed men intercepted a group of finalist students on the Kiseya-Kilambo road in Walikale territory, robbing them; three of the girls were sexually assaulted before the group was released.

  Jun 19 · Walikale, Democratic Republic of the Congo1 source

• Woman shot by her husband at home dies of her injuries

  A 76-year-old woman was shot by her 77-year-old husband at their residence on County Road 623 and died of her injuries days later; the husband was found dead at the scene from a gunshot wound.

  Jun 19 · Missouri, United States1 source

• Man assaults and threatens partner at bar after she tried to end relationship

  A 33-year-old man physically assaulted his 23-year-old partner in the face and threatened her at a bar in São Gabriel da Cachoeira after she said she wanted to end their relationship.

  Jun 19 · São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Brazil2 sources

• Man kills estranged wife in Stone Oak shooting, wounds officer

  A man shot and killed his estranged wife at a home in the Stone Oak area of San Antonio, then wounded a responding police officer before dying by suicide.

  Jun 19 · San Antonio, United States1 source

• Pregnant woman shot and killed by her unborn child's father in murder-suicide

  A 31-year-old woman who was 33 weeks pregnant was shot and killed inside a residence by the father of her unborn child, who then took his own life.

  Jun 19 · Milledgeville, United States1 source

• Woman shot and wounded in Mansfield domestic violence incident

  A 23-year-old woman was hospitalized with gunshot wounds after she and her 24-year-old brother were found shot inside a home on Florence Avenue in Mansfield, Ohio.

  Jun 19 · Mansfield, United States2 sources

• Two sisters allegedly gang-raped in Naubatpur, Bihar

  Two sisters from Jharkhand, hired to perform at a tilak ceremony, were allegedly taken to a secluded location in the Naubatpur area and sexually assaulted through the night by multiple men.

  Jun 18 · Naubatpur, India1 source

• Teacher killed by partner in apparent femicide in Ocumare de la Costa

  A male partner killed a female schoolteacher, slitting her throat, and then took his own life in Ocumare de la Costa, Venezuela.

  Jun 17 · Ocumare de la Costa, Venezuela1 source

• Woman killed in rope-jump fall targeted with sexual abuse online

  After a 21-year-old woman died in a rope-jump fall in Limeira, São Paulo state, social media users posted sexually degrading comments about her, including references to necrophilia and rape.

  Jun 17 · Limeira, Brazil1 source

• Man kills sister-in-law in domestic violence incident in Marcovia

  A man killed his sister-in-law, a young woman, in Marcovia, Choluteca department, Honduras, in a case of intrafamily violence.

  Jun 16 · Marcovia, Honduras1 source

• Off-duty police constable shot dead by partner in Durban

  An off-duty female police constable was shot dead at her partner's residence in Mpumalanga Township, west of Durban.

  Jun 16 · Mpumalanga Township, South Africa1 source

• Woman killed in her home in Itagüí; partner accused of femicide

  A 29-year-old municipal worker was found dead with a stab wound to the chest in a house in the Robles del Sur sector of Itagüí.

  Jun 15 · Itagüí, Colombia1 source

• Woman police officer stabbed by husband at home in Drama

  A female police officer was attacked with a knife by her husband inside their home in Drama, Greece, and was hospitalized in critical condition.

  Jun 15 · Drama, Greece4 sources

• Mayor tells female opposition councillor to 'take a broom' during council session

  During the inaugural session of the municipal council in Montorio al Vomano, the mayor repeatedly interrupted and personally attacked opposition councillor Alessia Nori, telling her to 'take a broom to learn to do something'.

  Jun 14 · Montorio al Vomano, Italy1 source

• Man held after child allegedly sexually abused on Bogotá balcony

  Residents of the Usaquén area of Bogotá reported that a man allegedly sexually abused a child on a balcony of a building on Calle 106.

  Jun 14 · Bogotá, Colombia1 source

• Law student killed in femicide in Chimalhuacán; suspect detained

  Miriam Peralta Valverde, a 22-year-old law student at the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, was killed in a femicide in Chimalhuacán, State of Mexico.

  Jun 14 · Chimalhuacán, Mexico1 source

• Venezuelan woman stabbed to death by ex-partner in Trinidad and Tobago

  A 28-year-old Venezuelan woman was attacked with a knife and killed by her former partner in Montrose, Trinidad and Tobago, while she was on her way to work.

  Jun 13 · Montrose, Trinidad and Tobago1 source

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