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Home 'most dangerous place' for women, UN study shows
Agence France-Presse ^ | 26 Nov 2018

Posted on 11/25/2018 9:18:16 PM PST by Olog-hai

More than half the women who were murdered worldwide last year were killed by their partners or family members, making home “the most dangerous place for a woman,” a new UN study said Sunday.

In statistics released on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime calculated that of a total 87,000 female homicide cases worldwide in 2017, some 50,000 — or 58 percent -– were committed by the victims’ intimate partners or family members.

Around 30,000, or 34 percent, were committed by intimate partners alone.

“This amounts to some six women being killed every hour by people they know,” the Vienna-based body said.

The vast majority — around 80 percent — of homicide victims worldwide were men, but “women continue to pay the highest price as a result of gender inequality, discrimination and negative stereotypes,” said UNODC chief Yury Fedotov.

“They are also the most likely to be killed by intimate partners and family… making the home the most dangerous place for a woman,” he said.

“The fact that women continue to be affected by this type of violence to a greater degree than men is indicative of an imbalance in power relations between women and men inside the domestic sphere.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at afp.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: destroythefamily; liberalagenda; moreunbullcrap; rop; stupidstats; un; unbelievable
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To: Olog-hai

I guess these researchers have never seen that movie... ‘Looking for Mr. Goodbar”


21 posted on 11/25/2018 10:46:24 PM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Olog-hai

I guess these researchers have never seen that movie... ‘Looking for Mr. Goodbar”


22 posted on 11/25/2018 10:48:28 PM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Olog-hai

The title for the highest homicide rate for women in the world is currently held by El Salvador.


23 posted on 11/25/2018 10:56:14 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Olog-hai
The most dangerous place to be a woman in in your mother's womb. But don't hold your breath waiting for the "great and good" to address that issue.

Which shows this is not about protecting women.

24 posted on 11/25/2018 11:23:31 PM PST by John Locke
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To: Noamie

Why weren’t you in the kitchen
chopping peppers, and doing the
dishes? (just kidding you know)....


25 posted on 11/25/2018 11:50:38 PM PST by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: Pelham

Oh wow, you IQ snob! ;) what, are you slow-phobic??


26 posted on 11/26/2018 12:05:28 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Olog-hai
What is the comparative statistic of the intimate partners they have killed? or their kin? or their . . . unborn babies?
27 posted on 11/26/2018 12:26:08 AM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: reasonisfaith

It’s probably not far off. Most women live and work in the home, worldwide that is.


28 posted on 11/26/2018 12:28:51 AM PST by D Rider
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To: Olog-hai

Women murdered more often at location where they spend the vast majority of their time.

If I have a 1/1,000,000 chance of being killed at home in a given year, and a 1/2,000,000 chance of being killed in the Subway, it I spend 15 hours a day at home and 30 minutes a day on the Subway, the Subway is fifteen times more dangerous than my home, even if I am less likely to be murdered there.


29 posted on 11/26/2018 12:40:04 AM PST by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: Olog-hai

In other news, everyone who has ever died had drunk water in some form.


30 posted on 11/26/2018 2:10:00 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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To: Olog-hai
were killed by their partners or family members

That doesn't mean they were killed in their homes, though.

31 posted on 11/26/2018 2:21:01 AM PST by Tax-chick (Ask me about my Marine!)
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To: Olog-hai

The funding for these U.N. needs to be cut off. (fixed)


32 posted on 11/26/2018 3:32:47 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Olog-hai
"...Home 'most dangerous place' for women, UN study shows..."

Especially if your husband is a Leftist.

33 posted on 11/26/2018 4:24:20 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: Yaelle

That’s a really tough life for those 6 women


34 posted on 11/26/2018 4:32:56 AM PST by my job (MAGA...winning...hugely)
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To: Olog-hai

This “study” is why President Trump should dramatically and instantly reduce our contribution to the UN. Most of the foreign employees at the UN are spies, and our money is paying their salaries. Time for their source of income to be choked off. They need to go home.


35 posted on 11/26/2018 5:32:05 AM PST by Saltmeat
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To: Olog-hai

My home is pretty darn safe. My wife has access to a number of implements to repel an invader, most of which go BANG. The others go BOOM.


36 posted on 11/26/2018 5:36:25 AM PST by cyclotic ( Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: Olog-hai
'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'

- Mark Twain (and others) -

37 posted on 11/26/2018 6:12:00 AM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: Olog-hai

Hello.....could someone please shut the UN up? We are not interested in hearing from them.

Geesh, they already think they control the world.


38 posted on 11/26/2018 6:16:05 AM PST by dforest (Just shut up Obama)
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To: Olog-hai

Violent thugs have families and girlfriends too. There are women who prefer relationships with thugs over nice guys, possibly because the thugs are more exciting.


39 posted on 11/26/2018 6:27:03 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: Larry Lucido; Chode; Squantos; snooter55; All

And the other 70% occur within 3 miles of Home.


40 posted on 11/26/2018 7:14:27 AM PST by mabarker1 (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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