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This installation in Mexico City uses pairs of red shoes to symbolize the murdered women to protest against the continuous emergence of gender-based violence against women. (File photo, AP)
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56%──The proportion of women who died at the hands of relatives accounted for the murder of women 
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When you think of murder, what images do you conjure up in your mind? Murder for money, buy murder or commit random murder?
Most people probably think of murders that happen outside the family, not by someone close to them. Although the above are all possible appearances of murder, according to the latest statistics released by the United Nations, more than half of the murdered women in 2021, as high as 56%, died at the hands of close people, including their husbands, partners or relatives .
Also, this figure does not include the many murders that were “gender-related” or even “possibly related to relatives” but not committed by relatives themselves. In particular, so-called “honor-killing” by the community for women’s “immorality” and many murders related to crimes such as sexual assault are often not counted, the UN noted.
Relatively speaking, only 11% of men died at the hands of relatives. In other words, if the murder victim is a man, he is more likely to fit the usual murder story we hear, that he died at the hands of an “outsider”, but if he is a woman, he is more likely to be killed by someone close and “supposedly trustworthy”. In the cases of “women were killed by someone close to them”, about two-thirds of the perpetrators were current or former partners. A “current or former partner” is the most common perpetrator in these cases.
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On November 25, 2022, Mexican demonstrators took to the streets on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. (AP)
Last year, the total number of women who were “murdered by someone close to them” worldwide was 45,000, which is equivalent to an average of more than 120 women were killed every day around the world, more than 5 people per hour. Among them, the highest risk of women being murdered is in Africa, with 2.5 per 100,000 women being murdered by relatives, and the lowest in Europe, with 0.6 per 100,000.
However, there may also be differences within individual countries. Canada as a whole is not the country with the most serious murders of women, but the murder risk of aboriginal women in Canada is even higher than the African average, with a rate of 4.3 per 100,000 people, which is five times that of non-indigenous Canadians── It is worth noting that the rate of other forms of violence against aboriginal women in Canada is also higher than that of non-aboriginal women. The Canadian government report pointed out that this may be due to the weak protection of the police and judicial system for aboriginal people. (Finish)
About the author｜ Xie Dawen (a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, likes complicated history, clean data, and beautiful people.)
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