{"id":10338,"date":"2018-12-20T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/?p=10338"},"modified":"2018-12-20T16:41:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T14:41:40","slug":"home-is-the-deadliest-place-for-women-as-violence-rises-u-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/2018\/12\/home-is-the-deadliest-place-for-women-as-violence-rises-u-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Home is the deadliest place for women as violence rises – U.N."},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Home is the most dangerous place for a woman, according to a United Nations study that found the number killed by a partner or relative is rising globally.<\/p>\n

About 50,000 women were killed worldwide last year by a current or former partner or a family member – equating to 137 per day or six per hour – found the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the vast majority of homicide victims are men, women continue to pay the highest price as a result of gender inequality, discrimination and negative stereotypes,\u201d said UNODC executive director Yury Fedotov in a statement.<\/p>\n

Despite recent high-profile campaigns such as #MeToo, in which women publicly called out sexual harassment, they are still far more likely than men to be murdered by their partner or family.<\/p>\n

The total number of such murders rose slightly between 2012 and 2017 – and the proportion of female homicide victims killed by partners or family rose from less than half in 2012 to nearly six in ten last year, said the report.<\/p>\n

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Many were murdered by abusive partners, while others were victims in so-called honor killings or disputes over dowries, it added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Murders by partners or family are often not one-off attacks, but the culmination of previous domestic abuse, said the report.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese shocking findings demonstrate the devastating consequences of gender inequality that perpetuates violence against women,\u201d Sarah Masters, a director at the rights group Womankind Worldwide, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.<\/p>\n

The UNODC report called for more action to combat gender-based violence including greater coordination between police, doctors and social services along with work to ensure specialized support services were available for women at risk.<\/p>\n

Men should also be involved in programs to combat damaging gender norms from early childhood education onwards, it added.<\/p>\n

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