Women and girls only account for one-tenth of the world’s murder victims, but they are more than half of victims killed by a domestic partner or family member, according to recent report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
There were 47,000 women and girls killed in such a manner in 2020 worldwide, which means a female is murdered by a so-called loved one or relative every 11 minutes, the U.N. research showed. In the United States, 89% of the 2,059 women killed by men that same year knew their assailants, a study released by the Violence Policy Center revealed.
