Raising global awareness to the problem of femicide and the impact it’s causing on society and in particular boys.  We provide education about the facts and evidence that support that it is an intentional act of killing a woman, almost always by a man and use art installations around the world in public spaces to raise awareness to the global problem of femicide and to recognise and remember women that are victims of femicide with the hope they’re never forgotten, and their voices continue to be heard.

Create a Femicide Tree to remember victims of femicide in different countries and raise awareness and open conversations with people about femicide while the tree is being created to encourage people to confront gender inequality when they see it with the hope to eliminate gender-based violence. 

The Femicide Tree project arose from Lauren Cannell, the founder living in a region of Colombia that had an extremely high rate of femicide and violence against women.  When she found out that a 3-year-old girl was sexually abused by her own mother and step-father before being taken by them to the hospital where she died later that day of her extensive injuries.  Nobody called the police; the neighbours heard screams and did nothing and this little 3 year old was left to defend herself against monsters.  It didn’t even make the national news, let alone international news.  Lauren felt disgusted that this little girl had lost her life, and nobody was there to ensure she got justice and with this she did the first Femicide Tree in Bucaramanga, Colombia.  
Violence against women is a major public health h problem all around the world and a violation of human rights.  It was in fact the reason behind the creation of women’s rights, because of the horrific crimes being committed against women, purely because of their gender. For women in many parts of the world, violence is a leading cause of injury, and disability, as well as a risk factor for other physical, mental, sexual and reproductive health problems. Violence has long-term consequences for these women and their children, as well as social and economic costs for all society.

Femicide is generally understood to involve intentional murder of women because they are women, but broader definitions include any killings of women or girls.  A key contributor to femicide and violence against women is gender inequality. Femicide is increasingly recognized as a global, widespread and persistent human rights’ violation. The way in which nation states or governments respond to femicide has become the focus of international attention because no country is free from this type of violence.



The history of violence against women helps to explain its normalisation and embedment into societies around the world to this day. Domestic violence was acceptable as “discipline” as late as 1878 in the UK and is still acceptable as a form of discipline in some countries around the world where women and girls are treated as a commodity.  Marital rape only recently became a crime in India whilst again in some countries it’s still not recognised as a violation of a woman’s right to her body.  In Australia, only in 2022 have laws been passed to mandate the teaching of consent within the national school curriculum and that was driven by a group of girls who had over 200,000 women sign it and disclose their non-consentual sexual experiences, so it came with a bunch of trauma and a reminder that their were many women who didn’t get to sign the petition.  

This undoubtedly influences the attitudes of people today. In many societies, femicide is almost universally acceptable under the ‘right’ circumstances – this results in many criminal justice systems writing off the killing of women as ‘cultural traditions’, perpetuating the idea that gender-based violence is appropriate, and even inevitable.
 
We hope to complete the Femicide Tree installation in as many countries around the world as we can and remind people of the global problem and need to solve gender-based violence including Femicide and create conversation about what it means for gender equality.  If we don’t talk about femicide it won’t be seen as a problem and no-one will help us solve it.  We need to do better for the women and girls around the world, and this is how we want to help!


Our womens rights department is dedicated to engaging men to lead the fight to eliminate gender-based violence. We are raising awareness of the global problem of Femicide through preserving the memories of victims and making thier stories known.

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