Incidents of sexism / gender-based violence around the world

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May 2026

• Woman killed by husband in Bitola femicide

  A 31-year-old woman was killed with a knife by her husband in Bitola, in a case described as a femicide resulting from family violence.

  May 14 · Bitola, North Macedonia2 sources

• House fire in Montebello kills woman and her son; domestic violence suspected

  A woman and her 13-year-old son died after a fire engulfed a detached unit on South Fifth Street in Montebello, California.

  May 14 · Montebello, United States2 sources

• Woman gang-raped by RSF fighters after being pulled from bus in Khartoum Bahri

  A 26-year-old woman was gang-raped by three Rapid Support Forces fighters after they stopped the bus she was on in Khartoum Bahri and separated the men from the women.

  May 13 · Khartoum Bahri, Sudan1 source

• Woman shot dead by ex-partner after filing harassment complaint

  A 36-year-old woman was shot and killed by her former partner near the gender-violence prosecutor's office in Santo Domingo Este, hours after she filed a complaint accusing him of stalking and harassment.

  May 13 · Santo Domingo Este, Dominican Republic2 sources

• Male councillor takes microphone from female councillor during session

  During a Porto Alegre city council session, a male councillor removed the microphone of a female councillor while she was speaking, which she called political gender violence.

  May 13 · Porto Alegre, Brazil1 source

• Palestinian mother and daughter beaten in home attack in Burin

  Israeli colonists on motorcycles attacked a home in the village of Burin, south of Nablus, beating a Palestinian mother and her daughter and smashing the house windows.

  May 13 · Burin, Palestine2 sources

• Man kills wife and mother-in-law with steel bar in Kebumen

  A man attacked his wife and her mother with a threaded steel bar at the family home in Kebumen, Central Java, killing both.

  May 12 · Kebumen, Indonesia1 source

• 17-year-old mother raped at home by roommate in Marghera

  A 17-year-old Bangladeshi mother was raped in her home in Marghera by a male roommate who lived with her, her husband and her infant son, taking advantage of her husband's absence.

  May 11 · Marghera, Italy1 source

• Woman brutally assaulted on bus in Stroncone

  A woman was brutally attacked on a bus in Stroncone, Italy, and is in very serious condition in hospital; the attacker, apparently her husband, fled.

  May 9 · Stroncone, Italy1 source

• Woman, 21, allegedly killed by her partner in Madrid

  A 21-year-old woman was found unconscious in the street in Madrid's Carabanchel district with a severe head injury and died; her 23-year-old partner was arrested.

  May 9 · Madrid, Spain1 source

• Man arrested for assaulting and threatening his partner with a firearm

  A 45-year-old man was arrested after physically assaulting his 33-year-old partner and threatening her with a firearm at his home in the Aerodrom municipality of Skopje.

  May 9 · Skopje, North Macedonia1 source

• Woman found mutilated in Havana after going missing

  A 56-year-old woman who had been missing was found dead with mutilations in an open field in San Francisco de Paula, in Havana's San Miguel del Padrón municipality.

  May 8 · Havana, Cuba1 source

• Woman killed in her home in Juraguá, Cuba, allegedly by her ex-husband

  A 44-year-old woman was attacked and killed inside her home in Juraguá, in the Abreus municipality of Cienfuegos, allegedly by her ex-husband, from whom she was separated.

  May 8 · Juraguá, Cuba1 source

• Woman killed defending daughter from attempted sexual abuse

  A woman was killed in Los Polvorines after intervening to protect her 9-year-old daughter from an attempted sexual abuse by a neighbor, who fled the scene.

  May 7 · Los Polvorines, Argentina1 source

• Trans woman killed in Amagá, Antioquia

  A 23-year-old trans woman was shot and killed in the vereda Santa Rita of Amagá, Antioquia, after an unknown man told her and her partner they could not be there and opened fire.

  May 7 · Amagá, Colombia1 source

• Woman killed by husband in murder-suicide in San Antonio

  A woman was shot and killed by her husband in a murder-suicide in a vehicle along Southwest Loop 410 in San Antonio.

  May 6 · San Antonio, United States1 source

• Young woman allegedly killed in gender-violence attack in Santa Úrsula

  A young woman was allegedly murdered in a gender-violence killing in the municipality of Santa Úrsula, Tenerife.

  May 6 · Santa Úrsula, Spain2 sources

• Man attacks wife with knife in Mojokerto, leaving her seriously injured

  A man attacked his wife with a kitchen knife at their rented home in Sumbertempur village, Puri district, Mojokerto, leaving her with serious facial injuries and trauma.

  May 6 · Mojokerto, Indonesia1 source

• Police sergeant shoots his partner dead in Haina

  A National Police sergeant shot and killed his partner in the early hours in the Barrio Nuevo sector of Haina, San Cristóbal province.

  May 6 · Haina, Dominican Republic1 source

• Teenage girl fatally stabbed in Gwangju alley

  A 16-year-old girl walking home alone was followed for more than a kilometer and fatally stabbed in an alley by a 23-year-old man who had prepared a weapon intending to kill a woman who had rejected him.

  May 5 · Gwangju, South Korea2 sources

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