Femicide
（重定向自Feminicide）
![Declaration of the enactment of the law against femicide in Chile, 2010](/Images/godic/202501/12/Promulgation_of_law_against_femicide_Chile2559.jpg")
![17th Century persecution of the religiously dissident Waldensians, illustration from Samuel Moreland's](/Images/godic/202501/12/AnnaCharboniereTortured2600.jpg")
![A candle memorial to women killed by femicide (femicidio), Chile, 2007.](/Images/godic/202501/12/No_femicidio2600.jpg")
Femicide or feminicide is a sex-based hate crime term, broadly defined as the killing of women but definitions vary depending on the cultural context. Feminist author Diana E. H. Russell is one of the early pioneers of the term, and she currently defines the word as "the killing of females by males because they are females". Other feminists place emphasis on the intention or purpose of the act being directed at females specifically because they are female; others include the killing of females by females.