Around 87,000 women were murdered across the globe in 2017 — most of them by a family member or intimate partner, according to a new report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Of the 87,000, more than half (58 percent) of female victims were killed by a family member or intimate partner. This amounts to an average of 137 women killed every day, or six women killed every hour, by someone they know. At 20,000 homicides, Asia had the highest number of women killed by a family member or partner, followed by Africa (19,000), the Americas (8,000) Europe (3,000) and Oceania (300). But the risk of being murdered by a partner or family member was highest for women in Africa, where the rate of such homicides per 100,000 female population was 3.1. The risk was lowest in Europe, where the rate was 0.7 per 100,000 population.
Credit: UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
