New Delhi:
According to a United Nations report, in 2023, more than 51 thousand women were murdered by their family members or partners. According to the report, last year an average of 140 women were murdered every day by their family members or partners. A year before this, in 2022, around 49 thousand women were killed in this manner across the world. The highest number of such murders were recorded in African countries. After that comes Asia’s turn. The report says that their homes have become the most unsafe places for women and girls. The experts preparing this report analyzed the data received from 112 countries.
How many women are murdered every day?
This Report It has been prepared jointly by the United Nations organization United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and UN Women. According to this, about 85 thousand women were murdered across the world in 2023. Of these, about 60 percent of the murders were committed by the family members of the murdered women or their partners. This means that every day about 140 women were murdered by their family members or partners. Out of such murders, about 21 thousand 700 murders were recorded in African countries. African countries are at the forefront in the world in such murders. 18,500 such murders were recorded in Asia. Apart from this, 8,300 murders were recorded in America, 23 hundred in Europe and 300 in Asian countries.
On the other hand, if we look at the difference in such murders between men and women, then only 11.8 percent of men were murdered by their family members or partners, whereas in case of women this number is 60.2 percent.
In which countries are women murdered the most?
Apart from the murder of women and girls by family members or partners, there are many other reasons for their murder. Many countries have implemented the UNODC-UN Women Statistical Framework to track gender-based killings. This has made it easier to detect gender-based murders. For example, 79 percent of murders of women and girls in France during 2019 to 2022 were committed by their family members or partners. Whereas in Africa, 9 percent of murders of women and girls in 2020-2021 were committed outside the home. People from were involved.
Due to lack of adequate data, changes in murder of women by family members or partners in other parts of the world, except America and Europe, are not monitored. Because of this, the rate of murders of women and girls by family members or partners has remained stable since 2010. Only in Europe has the rate declined between 2010 and 2023. This was seen in the countries of Northern, Eastern and Southern Europe. May go.
How many women had complained of harassment before the murder?
In America and Europe, most of the women or girls killed in this manner were killed by their partners. In Europe, in 2023, 64 percent of women and girls were murdered by their partners. Whereas in America, the number of such murders was 58 percent. According to available data, in the rest of the world, 59 percent of murders were committed by family members and 41 percent were committed by their partners.
Data from France, South Africa and Colombia show that among women or girls who were murdered by their intimate partners between 2014 and 2017, 22-37 per cent had previously experienced physical, mental or sexual abuse by their intimate partners. Allegations were made. This shows that such murders can be stopped by paying attention to such complaints.
In the countries which are sharing the data of murder of women or girls by their family members or partners, such cases have gradually increased in the last two decades. The highest number of such cases were registered in 2020. But by 2023, only half of these cases remained.
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