Femicide Femicide Femicide or feminicide is a sex-based hate crime term, broadly defined as "the intentional killing of females (women or girls) because they are females", though definitions vary depending on the cultural context. Feminist author Diana E. H. Russell was the first person to define and disseminate this term in 1976. She defines the word as "the killing of females by males because they are female." Other feminists place emphasis on the intention or purpose of the act being directed at females specifically because they are female; others include the killing of females by females. Often, the necessity of defining
The Philatelic Society of India society and in 1997 the Society celebrated its centenary with a display in Bombay titled "Centipex '97" at which a red Scinde Dawk and other rarities of Indian philately were exhibited. India Post also issued two commemorative stamps to mark the centenary. This is a partial list of early members of the society: The society had a strong publishing record with Martin and Smythies' "The Four Annas Lithographed Stamps of India, 1854-55" and L.E. Dawson's "The One Anna & Two Annas Postage Stamps of India, 1854-55" both winning the Crawford Medal from the Royal Philatelic Society London (1932 and 1950