Women at Risk: Genocide, Ecocide, and Femicide

This presentation will analyze how, although all targeted victims suffer grave harms during a genocide, women may also be subjected to gender-based assaults. They are also disproportionately vulnerable to ecocide, or environmental destruction, during which women constitute 80% of all people displaced by climate disasters. In addition, a woman or girl somewhere in the world is killed every 10 minutes by an intimate partner in the crime of femicide. This event will focus on the intertwined realities of genocide, ecocide, and femicide and highlight some of the efforts taking place across the globe to promote women’s safety, security, and equality.

This event is free and open to the public but registration is required. [Registration link coming soon.]

This event is part of the 2025-2026 series on "Gender and Genocide" being offered by the Cohen Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College. Speakers in this series represent a wide range of scholarly research and views; our guests' perspectives should not be taken as representative of the Cohen Institute or Keene State College as a whole. The lecture is made possible through donor funding. If you would like to make a gift to support this lecture or other Institute offerings, please visit our website.

This event is part of the Cohen Center calendar.