One female killed by family every 11 minutes globally - UN

A woman or girl is being killed by someone in their family every 11 minutes in the world, said the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Executive Director Ghada Waly on Thursday.

“In 2020, 47,000 women and girls worldwide died at the hands of intimate partners or other family members, according to new data released by the UNODC.

“Despite accounting for only one-fifth of homicide victims overall, 58 percent...