News Excerpt:
About 88,900 women and girls were intentionally killed worldwide on the grounds of gender-related factors in 2022, a recent study from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and UN Women shows.
Key Highlights of the Study:
- According to the UN research "Gender-related killings of women and girls (femicide/feminicide)", there was an increase in femicide in 2022 despite a global decline in homicides overall.
- In 2022, men made up 80% of all homicide victims, while women made up 20%.
- Women are more likely to be murdered by their partners or someone known to them. This stems from the reality that women are primarily the victims of physical abuse at the hands of their close relatives.
- Out of the 88,900 female victims of homicides in 2022, 55% were killed by family members or intimate partners.
- In over half the female homicides in Europe, the perpetrators are partners or related to the victims.
- In the Americas, too, the disparity showed (45% among women homicides and 12% among men homicides).
- In 2022, there were about 20,000 female victims of intimate partner/family-related homicide in Africa, the highest among continents.
- The African continent exceeded Asia in femicides for the first time in 13 years.
- In Asia, 18,400 women were killed by their families during the same period.
- Data also suggests that there was a general trend of reduction in gender-related killings of women before 2021, though it increased drastically in 2021 and 2022, especially in Africa.
