Deadliest place for women is home, says UN report on gender violence

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Deadliest place for women is home, says UN report on gender violence

UN Report, The global femicide report says about 60 percent of 85,000 women and girls killed in 2023 were by an intimate partner or a family member.

A woman looks on, as people attend a demonstration to protest against femicide, sexual violence and all gender-based violence to mark the International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women, in Paris on November 23, 2024. [Abdul Saboor/Reuters]

An average of 140 women and girls were killed each day in 2023 by their intimate partner or a close relative, a United Nations report on gender violence has found.

About 60 percent of 85,000 women and girls killed across the world in 2023 were at the hands of an intimate partner or a family member, the 36-page report (PDF) by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), published on Monday to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, says.

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“Women and girls everywhere continue to be affected by this extreme form of gender-based violence and no region is excluded,” it says. “The home is the most dangerous place for women and girls.”