International audienceThe International Tribunal on Crimes against Women (Brussels, 4-8 March 1976) is usually considered to be the collective birth act of the concept of femicide. This international feminist event aims to report on the many « crimes », understood as structural violence, suffered by women in the world. One of them is femicide, introduced by the American committee of which Diana E.H. Russell is a member and later the editor in 1992 with Jill Radford of the founding work of the concept Femicide: the Politics of Woman Killing. Although the concept seem central in the history of the idea of femicide, the role of the Tribunal remains little examined by the scientific literature. Based on unpublished archives from activists who p...