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Home, the most dangerous place for women, with majority of female homicide victims worldwide killed by partners or family, UNODC study says

VIENNA, 25 November (UN Information Service) — Around 87,000 women were killed around the world last year, some 50,000 – or 58 per cent – at the hands of intimate partners or family members. This amounts to some six women being killed every hour by people they know, according to new research published by the …