In 2024, 137 women and girls were killed every day by intimate partners or family members.In 2025, we are still confronting the unacceptable truth: women are not safe in their own homes.
UN Women and UNODC have released a new report on femicide: https://lnkd.in/eiAs6bRx
These killings are often the culmination of pre-existing forms of gender-based violence, much of it unreported and unseen. Yet fewer countries are reporting femicides statistics, leaving dangerous gaps in prevention and justice.
Prevention is possible. UN Women remains committed working with all our partners – governments, communities, and technology platforms, to strengthen prevention, ensure justice, and end impunity.
In 2025, inaction is not an option. Every life must be counted, and every woman and girl deserves to live free from violence.
Kirsi Madi in a Linkedin post
Femicides in 2024: Global Estimates of Intimate Partner/Family Member Femicides
Authors: UNODC and UN Women
Publication: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and UN Women
Date: November 2025
URL: Click here for the article
Summary
This comprehensive research brief presents 2024 global and regional estimates of intimate partner and family member femicides, revealing that approximately 50,000 women and girls worldwide were killed by intimate partners or other family members during the year. This represents 60 percent of all intentional female homicides, averaging 137 deaths daily. While the 2024 figure is lower than 2023's estimate of 51,100, this change reflects data availability differences rather than an actual decrease.
Africa recorded the highest aggregate number with an estimated 22,600 victims and the highest rate at 3.0 per 100,000 female population. The Americas and Oceania also showed elevated rates at 1.5 and 1.4 respectively, while Asia and Europe had significantly lower rates at 0.7 and 0.5. In Europe and the Americas, intimate partners committed 64 percent and 69 percent of domestic sphere femicides respectively, emphasizing the particular danger intimate relationships pose to women.
Key Quotes
"An average of 137 women and girls worldwide lost their lives every day at the hands of their partner or a close relative."
"The home continues to be the most dangerous place for women and girls in terms of the risk of homicide."
"In many cases, femicides are the tragic end to a pattern of ongoing violence, meaning that with the timely and appropriate intervention, they could be prevented."
The good news is that Quebec provincial authorities are proposing a motion to equate feminicide with first degree murder ie that it is a premeditated offence with all that it implies in the courts.
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