Karen Ingala Smith

Karen Ingala Smith is the CEO of nia (niaendingviolence.org.uk), a domestic and sexual violence charity working to end violence against women and girls, based in London, UK, and advocate of gender-critical feminism. Quotes We've made Freedom of Information requests going back to 2009 about men's fatal violence against women. From this we've identified that 62% of women killed by men are killed by a partner or ex-partner, and that at least a third of these women were in the process of leaving, or had left him; that teenage girls, as well as women in their 80s or 90s, can be killed by men who were supposed to love them; that 92% of women who are killed by men are killed by someone they know. One in 12 is a woman who is killed by her son. "The 81 women killed in 28 weeks", The Guardian (2 October 2021) The article title refers to the period of time following 3 March 2021, the presumed date of the murder of Sarah Everard by a (male) Metropolitan Police constable, and the number of women killed, where the main suspect is male, since then. For some years from 2012, Smith ran a blog entitled Counting Dead Women. All women are controlled by men's violence. Whether or not they are the ones on the receiving end, it affects every one of us. Young, professional, conventionally attractive, white women who are killed by strangers get the most attention but we must stop perpetuating this hierarchy of victims. "Why I have spent a decade counting murdered women", The Times (3 October 2021) The figure of eight per cent of women killed by men in the UK being killed by a stranger is consistent with the average since our records began in 2009. So ask me whether anything has changed since Sarah's murder, and my answer is no. As cited by Amy-Clare Martin in "At least 350 women killed by men since murder of Sarah Everard", The Independent (2 March 2024) External links Category:Living people Category:Feminists from England Category:Women's rights activists Category:Women activists from England Category:Gender-critical feminists