Globally, 85,000 women & girls were killed intentionally in 2023. 60% of these homicides - 51,000 were committed by an intimate partner or other family member. 140 women & girls die every day at the hands of their partner or a close relative, which means one woman or girl is killed every 10 minutes.
In the UK, a woman is killed by a man every three days on average (ONS 2024). UN Women UK urges the UK Government and the private sector to end femicide by accelerating whole-of-government National Action Plans to prevent and respond to VAWG;
adopting corporate policies to support survivors; holding perpetrators to account by strengthening law enforcement and justice sectors; and by ensuring women’s and marginalised groups’ meaningful access to gender-responsive justice
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