UN report reveals 1 femicide every 10 minutes worldwide in 2024

Highest rate of femicide by an intimate- partner/family member was in Africa

- PTI

One woman or girl is killed by a partner or family member almost every 10 minutes, an average of 137 every day, according to new data released by the UN.

In its report released on Monday, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and UN Women said that femicide continues to take the lives of tens of thousands of women and girls worldwide, with no sign of real progress.

“Last year, 83,000 women and girls were killed intentionally. Of them, 60 per cent - 50,000 women and girls - were killed at the hands of intimate partners or family members,’ the report said.