United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) prepared a report on the massacres of women.  According to the report, approximately 140 women and girls are murdered by their husbands or family members every day around the world.

 

According to the same report, while 85 thousand women and girls were murdered by men in 2023, 60 percent of these massacres were committed by the closest person. The report stated that the figures show that the most dangerous place for a woman globally is her home.

 

THE MOST DANGEROUS PLACE IS HOME

 

According to The Guardian, UN Women Deputy Executive Director Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda sait that data showed, women ara subjected to deadly violence in their homes. Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda said that not all women's deaths are recorded and not all causes of death are accurately recorded as femicide.

 

UN global estimates of femicide, defined as the gender-based killing of women and girls, showed an overall decline of 89,000 women and girls in 2022, but an increase in the number killed by intimate partners and family members.

 

HIGHEST IN AFRICA

 

Data from the UN agency showed that Africa recorded the highest rates of femicide by married men and partners, with an estimated 21,700 killings in 2023, followed by the Americas and Oceania.

 

FAMILY IS THE PRIMARY PERPETRATOR

 

In Europe and the Americas, most women were murdered by their intimate partners, while elsewhere close family members were the primary perpetrators. UN Women also confirmed that available data for three countries - France, South Africa and Colombia - showed that a "significant proportion" of women murdered by intimate partners had reported some form of violence to the authorities before the massacre.

 

In the report, it was stated that the global rate of murder of women due to domestic violence was 60 percent in 2023.

 

DATA INSUFFICIENT

 

However, the UN agency noted that its report on global estimates of femicide is hampered by insufficient data collection by many countries around the world, with few governments collecting accurate data on femicide committed outside the domestic sphere.