Aswat Nissa will launch a digital platform on August 12 to document femicides in Tunisia.
The platform will provide data to researchers, media and civil society groups and support advocacy for stronger public policies.
The initiative comes amid broader efforts to address gaps in data on violence against women.
Tunisia’s Aswat Nissa will launch a digital platform on Wednesday, August 12, to track and document femicides across the country, creating a centralized source of data for researchers, media and civil society organizations.
The launch in Tunis comes a day before Tunisia’s National Women’s Day, observed every August 13 to mark the anniversary of the 1956 Personal Status Code.
The platform will centralize information on femicides and make it accessible to researchers, journalists and civil society groups. Aswat Nissa intends it to serve not only as a statistical database but also as a tool to document cases, support advocacy for more effective public policies and strengthen institutional accountability.
The initiative reflects a broader use of digital tools to improve data collection on violence against women. In Kenya, the Africa Data Hub developed Silencing Women, a database documenting more than 1,069 killings of women between 2016 and 2025 using court decisions and media reports.
In June 2026, the Kenyan government also launched a nationwide WhatsApp platform for reporting gender-based violence.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) held a global meeting on measuring femicides in 2025, with several African countries participating. The discussions highlighted persistent gaps in available data on the issue.
UN Women has also stressed the importance of documenting violence against women to improve responses from public institutions and justice systems.
Adoni Conrad Quenum