Some 51,100 women and girls were murdered in 2023 by their romantic partners or family members around the world, that is, an average of 140 femicides per day, according to the annual UN Women report on this phenomenon published this Monday.
Women and girls victims of feminicide, or gender-based murder, represented 60% of the 85,000 intentionally murdered in 2023, the document’s conclusions indicate.
The report reveals that, although feminicide affects women and girls in all regions, it is Africa that concentrates the highest absolute number, 21,700 murdered in 2023 alone, and has the highest level of violence taking into account the size of its population. female population. In relative terms, Africa suffers 2.9 femicides per 100,000 women, followed by the Americas (1.6), Oceania (1.5), Asia (0.8) and Europe (0.6).
UN Women recognizes that due to a lack of data, it is currently only able to track temporal trends in femicides in the Americas, where the ratio has remained stable since 2010, and in Europe, where it has decreased by 20% since that same year.
In these regions, it points to intimate partners as the main responsible for the “victimization of women in the private sphere” in 2023: in Europe, 64% of feminicide victims were murdered by their partner, while in the Americas The percentage is 58%. This trend is discordant with the rest of the world, since according to available data, women and girls are more likely to be murdered by a member of their family (59%) than by their intimate partner (41%).
The report points to these data to demand that measures to prevent domestic violence be expanded beyond that perpetrated by couples and that they be included in family contexts in which women are at greater risk.
Previous complaints
Likewise, it highlights that the data available from France, South Africa and Colombia (from different years) confirm that a good part of the women murdered by their partners (between 22% and 37%) had previously reported physical, sexual or psychological violence. these, which suggests that femicides are “avoidable.”
“Restraining orders on male partners that prohibit contact between them and the victims of their violence are among the measures that can prevent the murders of women,” he indicates.
UN Women also draws attention to the trends in the reporting of data on femicides: more and more countries contributed data in the last two decades until a peak of 75 countries was reached in 2020, but since then they have been reduced, and In 2023 they were only half. The UN agency also warns that the accountability of countries in the fight against gender-based murders depends on the quality and availability of their statistics on femicides. “Significant efforts to reverse the negative trend in terms of data availability would, therefore, increase government responsibility to address violence against women,” the document concludes.
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