Incidents of sexism / gender-based violence around the world

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January 2026

• Father fatally shoots wife and daughter, fires at second daughter in Lakewood home

  A man shot and killed his wife and 17-year-old daughter inside their Lakewood, California home and fired at his 19-year-old daughter, who escaped unharmed, before killing himself.

  Jan 15 · Lakewood, United States1 source

• Man arrested in Pontevedra for threatening partner with an axe

  A man in Pontevedra pushed his partner, seized her phone and threatened her with an axe during a dispute, causing her to flee the home.

  Jan 13 · Pontevedra, Spain1 source

• Woman reports being raped by ride-hailing driver in Teresina

  A woman reported to police that a ride-hailing driver she knew took her to an isolated area in the Gurupi neighborhood of Teresina, forced her to undress, and sexually assaulted her under threat of death, also robbing her of R$1,500 via Pix.

  Jan 12 · Teresina, Brazil1 source

• Cartoonist mocks senator Paloma Valencia's appearance in viral post

  A cartoonist published a post on X comparing a white dove to a photo of Colombian senator and presidential pre-candidate Paloma Valencia, mocking her physical appearance.

  Jan 12 · Colombia1 source

• NEET aspirant in Patna found sexually assaulted and killed

  A female NEET aspirant in Patna was sexually assaulted and killed, with a post-mortem report documenting forced penetration, signs of violent resistance, and injuries inflicted before death.

  Jan 11 · Patna, India1 source

• Man detained for killing his wife in Olvera, Cádiz

  A 60-year-old man was detained by the Guardia Civil for the murder of his 58-year-old wife in Olvera, Cádiz, investigated as gender-based violence.

  Jan 11 · Olvera, Spain5 sources

• Mother of four killed by husband in Mathakwa village

  Carol Njeri, a young mother of four, was killed by her husband in Mathakwa village, Kenya, in a case described as gender-based violence.

  Jan 10 · Mathakwa, Kenya1 source

• Woman rescued from captivity; partner arrested for domestic violence

  A woman was rescued from a rural property in Governador Valadares where her partner had kept her confined for about two months, preventing her from leaving or contacting family and forcing her into sex against her will.

  Jan 10 · Governador Valadares, Brazil1 source

• Minister's X account photoshopped with vulgar images

  Vulgar sexual images were photoshopped onto the X account of a Minister in the Presidency, and the government condemned the act as targeting a woman with sexual imagery.

  Jan 10 · South Africa1 source

• Woman attacked, threatened by husband in family home in Petrovec

  A 29-year-old woman reported to Skopje police that her husband physically attacked her with a hard object and threatened her with a sharp object in the family home in the Petrovec municipality.

  Jan 10 · Petrovec, North Macedonia1 source

• Man assaults woman, flees with infant before police chase

  A man assaulted a woman at a home on Andrews Road and fled with her three-month-old child, leading police on a pursuit from Alabama into Georgia before he died by suicide.

  Jan 9 · Opelika, United States3 sources

• Elderly man detained over partner's death investigated as gender violence

  An 81-year-old man was detained on suspicion of killing his 78-year-old partner in Badajoz, Spain.

  Jan 9 · Badajoz, Spain1 source

• ICE officer fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis during immigration raid

  An ICE officer shot and killed a woman in her car in Minneapolis during a large-scale anti-immigrant operation targeting the Somali community.

  Jan 7 · Minneapolis, United StatesXenophobia19 sources

• Woman killed by her partner in Granma, Cuba

  A 38-year-old woman, a local museum director, was fatally attacked by her partner in the Alto del Moro neighborhood of Las Mercedes, Bartolomé Masó municipality, Granma, as she was on her way to work.

  Jan 7 · Bartolomé Masó, Cuba2 sources

• Man arrested after attacking and threatening his partner in Itaocara

  A man was arrested after his partner reported that he tried to run her over with a car, threatened to kill her, broke objects in the house and hit and kicked her in Itaocara.

  Jan 7 · Itaocara, Brazil1 source

• Woman shot in hand during domestic incident near Mullewa

  A woman was shot through the hand during an altercation with a man near Mullewa in Western Australia's Mid West.

  Jan 7 · Mullewa, Australia1 source

• Woman abducted from farm and found shot dead in Cesar, Colombia

  A woman and a man were taken from a farm in Las Vegas, Curumaní, by unidentified men and found shot dead the next day in Pelaya, Cesar.

  Jan 7 · Curumaní, Colombia1 source

• Cuban nurse sexually assaulted and killed at prison camp

  A 59-year-old nurse working at the Las Mulas prison camp in Jatibonico was sexually assaulted and killed; her body was found in a nearby sugarcane field.

  Jan 6 · Jatibonico, Cuba1 source

• 10-year-old girl forced to give birth after sexual abuse in Chiapas

  A 10-year-old girl was brought to a hospital in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, to give birth, suffering severe internal injuries; she had been sexually abused by an 18-year-old man who presented himself as her husband.

  Jan 5 · San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico1 source

• Hindu journalist shot dead in Jashore; Hindu widow raped in Mymensingh

  In Jashore, a 45-year-old Hindu journalist and factory owner was shot in the head and had his throat slit by attackers who came on a motorcycle and called him out of his factory.

  Jan 5 · Jashore, Bangladesh1 source

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