This equates to 140 women killed per day or one every 10 minutes by those closest to them.
One woman was killed by a partner or relative every 10 minutes worldwide in 2023, the United Nations warned Monday, stressing that femicides remained at “alarmingly high levels”.
Almost 85,000 women and girls were murdered by people last year, according to a joint report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the UN Women agency published Monday.
About 60 percent — or more than 51,000 women and girls — died at the hands of their partner or relative, the report found.
This equates to 140 women killed per day or one every 10 minutes by those closest to them.
