82 women and girls are killed daily by someone whom they would normally trust and expect to care for them – UN Study
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87,000 women worldwide were killed intentionally in 2017, and more than 50,000 were killed by intimate partners, a new study from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime found.
3,000 European women were killed by intimate partners in 2017, according to the Global Study on Homicide 2019.
According to the report, 48,000 women were killed by intimate partners or family members in 2012, so the number of women who are killed by partners or family seems to be increasing.
82 women and girls are killed per day by “someone whom they would normally trust and expect to care for them,” the report says.
Many female victims are not only killed by partners, but by their mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and other family members because of their status as women, the report says. Intimate partners often kill women out of jealousy or fear of abandonment.
For Kiersten Stewart, the director of public policy and advocacy for anti-violence group Futures without Violence, the numbers are disturbing, but not surprising.
“This study confirms what we’ve known for a long time — for women, husbands, boyfriends and family members are the most dangerous people in their lives, and those most likely to seriously hurt or kill them,” said Steward
