Incidents of sexism / gender-based violence around the world

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October 2026

• Man arrested after grabbing wife by the throat and throwing chair near crib

  A man grabbed his wife by the throat with both hands and threw her phone across the room during a domestic dispute, then threw a chair into the ceiling near their two-year-old daughter's crib.

  Oct 30 · Carson City, United States1 source

• Man arrested for death threats against partner and her children

  A man threatened to kill his partner and extended the threats to her children during an argument at their home.

  Oct 30 · Victoria, Chile1 source

• Woman killed at home allegedly by former partner in Pinar del Río

  A 36-year-old woman was killed at her home on the Viñales road in Pinar del Río, allegedly by her former partner, according to a gender observatory that monitors femicides in Cuba.

  Oct 30 · Pinar del Río, Cuba1 source

• Man arrested after breaking into woman's home and attempting sexual assault

  A man forced his way into a woman's house, strangled her, locked her in the bathroom and groped her before she fought him off and got him outside.

  Oct 29 · Arizona, United States1 source

• Woman reports being punched and pushed off stairs by partner

  A woman called the military police saying her partner had punched her and pushed her off a staircase during a dispute at their home.

  Oct 29 · Manaus, Brazil1 source

• Woman says man drugged her after years of sexual exploitation on marriage promise

  A woman in Bihar alleges a man sexually exploited her for five years on a promise of marriage and, when she insisted he marry her, gave her drugged juice that left her severely ill before taking her to a hospital and leaving.

  Oct 29 · Bhagalpur, India1 source

• Man accused of beating and raping his partner at her home

  A 25-year-old man was accused of threatening, punching and raping his 38-year-old partner at her home in Larissa.

  Oct 29 · Larissa, Greece1 source

• Estranged husband kidnaps wife at gunpoint, kills her in murder-suicide

  A 34-year-old mother of two was forced into her estranged husband's car at gunpoint after dropping a child at school, then shot dead by him in a murder-suicide following a high-speed police chase that ended near an airport in Crescent, Texas.

  Oct 29 · Crescent, United States2 sources

• Woman charged with sexual assault after 12-year-old girl's overdose death

  A 39-year-old woman in Enfield, Connecticut, was arrested on charges of Risk of Injury to a Child and sexual assault following the death of a 12-year-old girl in her household from a diphenhydramine overdose.

  Oct 28 · Enfield, United States1 source

• Woman killed in gender-based violence on Carretera de la Comella

  A woman's body was found on the Carretera de la Comella, and the confessed perpetrator has been remanded in custody; he had prior gender-violence offenses against a former partner.

  Oct 28 · La Comella, Andorra1 source

• Woman killed in her Barcelona home; confirmed as gender-based violence

  A 38-year-old woman was killed in her home in Barcelona's Nou Barris district.

  Oct 28 · Barcelona, Spain2 sources

• 11-year-old girl sexually abused in rural Santiago del Estero

  An 11-year-old girl was sexually abused in a rural area of El Cuadrado, in the Juan Felipe Ibarra department.

  Oct 28 · El Cuadrado, Argentina1 source

• Businesswoman shot dead at roadside in Rifaina; police register femicide

  A 24-year-old businesswoman was shot and killed at the side of the Cândido Portinari highway near a rural property in Rifaina after going there with her brother and a friend to return a pickup truck to a 64-year-old cattle rancher.

  Oct 27 · Rifaina, Brazil3 sources

• Spa employee accused of sexually assaulting woman during massage

  A woman told police that a spa employee sexually assaulted her during a massage at a salon in Monterey.

  Oct 27 · Monterey, United States1 source

• Man arrested after attempted rape of woman walking near Birmingham park

  A woman walking in Parkwood Croft in Great Barr was grabbed and an attempted rape occurred; a 26-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of attempted rape.

  Oct 27 · Great Barr, United Kingdom1 source

• Taxi driver arrested for sexually assaulting passenger in Moscow

  A taxi driver stopped his car in a parking lot on Lukhmanovskaya Street and sexually assaulted a female passenger who could not resist.

  Oct 27 · Moscow, Russia2 sources

• Teen found bound and killed in Búzios home

  A 19-year-old woman was found dead inside her home in Armação dos Búzios, her hands tied behind her back and a deep wound to her neck.

  Oct 27 · Armação dos Búzios, Brazil1 source

• Youth charged with assault, strangulation and sexual assault in partner violence case

  A 17-year-old was arrested and charged with spousal assault, assault with a weapon, assault by choking, and two counts of sexual assault following an intimate partner violence investigation.

  Oct 26 · Pembroke, Canada1 source

• 19-year-old student reports sexual assault at Milan's Cadorna station

  A 19-year-old female student reported being sexually assaulted in the bathrooms of the mezzanine at Cadorna station in Milan.

  Oct 26 · Milan, Italy1 source

• Man exposed himself to young woman from his vehicle in San Luis Potosí

  A man in a maroon Voyager vehicle exposed his genitals to a young woman in the Barrio de Tlaxcala; she photographed and filmed him and the images circulated online.

  Oct 26 · San Luis Potosí, Mexico1 source

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