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English title: Observatory of Murdered Women : 2008
Corporate author(s): UMAR – União de Mulheres Alternativa e Resposta
Keyword(s): gender violence | domestic violence | victims | feminist movements | women’s associations | Portugal
Languages(s): Portugese
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Summary:
The Observatory of Murdered Women (OMA), founded in 2004, is an initiative of the feminist association UMAR- União de Mulheres Alternativa e Resposta. Every year the OMA presents officially to governmental entities, media and civil society a study with the results of murdered women in the former year. This report reveals the data from 2008, where 46 women were murdered by their husbands, partners or ex-partners. The document also shows the number of attempted murders, the victims’ ages, the regions with more cases and the typology of the aggressors.