Conclusion: Looking to the Future, Learning from the Past Available to Purchase

In this conclusion, we offer an overview of the contributions to this edited collection assessing where the study of femicide has been, what it has accomplished and what remains to be done. It is evident that much remains to be done to change the number of women and girls killed by men’s violence on a yearly basis. At the same time, much progress has been made in raising awareness of this problem at the international, national and local levels as well as in collecting. This includes collecting the data needed to combat this problem and to inform the range of policies and practices required to be put in place to sustain this work. However, as the contributions to this book clearly identify without sustained and increased resources and the recognition that this is a gendered issue, barriers will remain in reducing the loss of life that ensures when women’s lives are not counted and as result do not count.