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  • Home 'most dangerous place' for women, UN study shows

    11/25/2018 9:18:16 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 43 replies
    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...