Every four minute

"EVERY FOUR MINUTES IN SOUTH AFRICA, A WOMAN OR A GIR - OFTEN TEENAGER, SOMETIMES A CHILD - IS REPORTED RAPED AND EVERY EIGHT HOURS A WOMAN IS KILLED BY HER PARTNER". The phenomenon has a name in South Africa: "intimate femicide" or as crime writer Margie Orford call the repeated killing of women across the country, "serial femicide". This violence against women should in no way be dismissed as marginal.

excerpt from Zizek's Against the Double Black Mail, p.6

IN BRAZIL, THERE ARE THREE FEMICIDES EVERY DAY.