Femicide is the expression more extreme gender-based violence. It is the murder of a woman being a woman. Diana Russell, feminist activist born in South Africa, is credited with being the first person to use the term femicide. The first publicly used in 1976 to testify before the International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women in Brussels. Then in 1982, the book Rape in Marriage (Rape in marriage), English voice defined femicide as "the killing of women because of it." The word was translated into Castilian as femicide and femicide. And although according to several academic these two terms differ in scope, are used interchangeably to denounce the gravity of the murders of women by gender. Some countries, like Peru and Central Americans prefer femicide. In Argentina, more widespread use of femicide.
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