The Global Study on Homicide consists of five thematic booklets, each offering an insight into specific facets and dimensions of this complex phenomenon: homicide trends and patterns; drivers, mechanisms and typologies of homicide; homicide and sustainable development; gender-related killing of women and girls; and the killing of children and young adults. An additional sixth booklet consists of the executive summary and policy implications.
Booklet 5 gives an overview of the scope of gender-related killings of women and girls. It contains an -depth analysis of killings perpetrated within the family sphere and also examines forms of gender-related killings perpetrated outside the family sphere.
One of the key findings of this report is that a total of 87,000 women were intentionally killed in 2017. More than half of them (58 %) 50,000 ̶ ̶ were killed by intimate partners or other family members, meaning that 137 women across the world are killed by a member of their own family every day.
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