VANCOUVER — A small group gathered outside Vancouver's art gallery Thursday to remember several women who died recently in B.C. and call for changes within the justice system to prevent more such deaths.

Dahye Son, an anti-violence worker at Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter, says femicide is getting "out of control," and a better system needs to be put in place to protect women from dangerous men.

Police say an 80-year-old woman died in Abbotsford in a murder-suicide in late June, a 51-year-old woman was killed in Richmond July 18 and her partner is charged with second-degree murder, and in Kelowna, Bailey McCourt was beaten to death on July 4 and her husband faces a murder charge.

Two other women in Surrey and Vancouver were also killed, but few details have been released on t

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