To celebrate 5 years since the first community events of the Data Against Feminicide project, in August 2025, we held an online gathering to look back on all we have done together and to launch the Swahili version of our tools, co-designed with the amazing Femicide Count Kenya.
Alessandra Jungs de Almeida and Isadora Cruxên presented key learnings and insights, from a report analysing five years of the project, including material from interviews and a survey of groups and individual activists who engage with feminicide data as a strategy to end gender-related violence.
Audrey Mugeni from Femicide Count – Kenya presented the organization’s work and issued a powerful call to African activists:
“What we need now is a continental wave of femicide documentation. We need tools in our own languages, shaped by our realities. And we must stop relying on Western reports to tell our tragedies”
Finally, Sybille Legitime and Kirabo Atuhurira gave an overview of the development of the Swahili version and a complete demo of the Data Against Feminicide tools.
We always try to host our events in our three working languages, and this time we were also able to offer Swahili interpretation. Here’s the Swahili interpretation of Audrey’s presentation and the tools demo.