The Tunisian Association of Democratic Women (ATFD) and NGOs "Aswat Nissa" and "Takato" have officially launched the mapping of femicides in Tunisia, entitled "Tunisia of the murdered women." This coincides with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (November 25) and the launch Saturday of the annual international campaign "16 days of activism against gender-based violence against women and girls" The campaign ends on December 10, on the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The map, which was presented during the mock trial held on November 25 and 26 at the Tunis Convention Centre aims to pinpoint the places where femicides have been committed. The map also seeks to raise awareness of the seriousness of the phenomenon of femicide in Tunisia and to provide feminist activists with advocacy tools, testimonies and moving real-life stories to put an end to the murder of women. The ATFD also said the mapping aims to answer a number of questions relating to the location of the crimes, the method of execution, the relationship to the victims, the number of victims by age group and the civil status of the victim. President of the ATFD, Naila Zoghlami, said that this mapping exercise was the first of its kind in the Arab region, preceded by experiments in Latin America and Spain. It would be updated whenever new femicides were committed in order to facilitate the work of those seeking data on this phenomenon and its victims, she added. Mapping femicide will make it possible to strengthen networking between the various Tunisian associations working to combat this phenomenon in terms of collecting, updating, exchanging and disseminating information. According to the data provided by the association, the number of women killed by their husbands in Tunisia after repeated ill-treatment and violence has risen to more than 27 victims since the beginning of 2023. A new report on femicide just released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and UN Women sh ows that nearly 89,000 women and girls were intentionally killed worldwide in 2022, the highest annual figure recorded in the last two decades, indicating that the number of murders of women is not decreasing. Most murders of women and girls are motivated by their gender. In 2022, 55% of murders of women (about 48800) were committed by their intimate partner or other family members. This means that, on average, more than 133 women or girls were killed every day by a member of their own family. Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse