UN Study Reveals Domestic Abuse Causes More Than 30,000 Deaths Per Year Worldwide

Last year, 137 women around the world were killed each day by an intimate partner or relatives.

According to the 2018 report on the murders of liberated women and girls. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime killed about 87,000 people around the world on Sunday, including 58% of domestic and family violence victims.

Many of these deaths could have been avoided.

Jean-Luc Lemahieu, director of policy badysis and public information at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, told the Washington Post that more than 30,000 of these deaths were due to domestic violence.

Domestic homicides are "the tragic end of a cycle of abuse and violence," Lemahieu said. "When a woman loses her life, it's not unpredictable – you see cases of verbal abuse and other forms.The pattern is established well before the homicide. "

Violence against women is almost universally underreported to the authorities, according to The research suggests that this can be attributed to "fear of reprisals, economic and psychological dependence, anticipation that the police will not take the accusations seriously. and to private aggression, "says the report.

The UN report was released to coincide with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, an awareness campaign on gender-based violence and its global prevalence [19659011] "We still do not know the actual extent of violence against women, the retaliation, the impact of not being believed and the stigma borne by the survivor – and not by the author – have silenced the voices of millions of survivors of violence and masked the true extent of horrific experiences that women continue to experience, "Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, executive director of UN Women, said in a statement: "This year, we wish, with you, to support all those whose voice is still not heard."

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the number of women killed by relatives or intimate partners has increased by more than 10% since 2012; Women in the Americas and Africa are now the most exposed

. Several countries have launched initiatives and trainings to combat gender-based violence.

"The underreporting of domestic violence highlights the justice system as an area requiring a lot of work," said Lemahieu. He cited Italian figures, according to which 31,500 women in every 100,000 people between the ages of 16 and 70 would be subjected to physical and badual violence, according to a lifetime survey. Domestic homicides occur in 0.4% of cases, while 35 report domestic abuse to the authorities.

"We need to educate the justice system – to make women feel comfortable reporting, that they are being listened to and that their consequences for the abuser are important. Lemahieu said.

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