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Femicide in Canada in 2025

The Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability (CFOJA) has documenting sex- and gender-based killings of women and girls in Canada since 2018. In 2025, 147 women and girls violently killed in Canada in 2025; in the majority cases where the accused was identified, the accused was male (90%).

25% of victims were killed in rural areas/small towns. Northwest Territories, Yukon, and  Saskatchewan had the highest rates of killings of women and girls involving male accused.

Over one third (34%) were killed by a current/former intimate partner, and another 12% were killed by another family member. 72% of women/girls were killed in a private location, such as their own home.

Read more about femicide data for 2025 in this infographic. Click here to download the infographic in PDF.

The CFOJA was established on December 6, 2017 in response to a call for action from the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences for countries to document gender-related killings of women by collecting, analyzing and reviewing data on femicides with the aim of prevention.

The CFOJA is a partnership of advocates and researchers from across Canada, who bring expertise from different communities and areas of work related to the prevention of gender-based violence. PATHS’ Director of Research Crystal Giesbrecht is a member of the CFOJA’s Expert Advisory Panel.