Women safety

Femicides at a twenty-year peak across globe | Data

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Femicides at a twenty-year peak across globe | Data

Women are more likely to be murdered by their partners or someone known to them | Photo Credit: ZUBADA About 88,900 women and girls were intentionally killed worldwide on the grounds of gender-related factors in 2022, a recent study from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and UN Women shows. This is … Read more

Four days before Hathras incident, UP DGP wrote to officers that sexual crimes were making women feel unsafe

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Four days before Hathras incident, UP DGP wrote to officers that sexual crimes were making women feel unsafe

New Delhi: Just four days before the alleged gang rape at Hathras, the Uttar Pradesh police chief had written to senior officers saying repeated incidents of sexual crimes and murder of the victims were making women feel unsafe and also spoiling the image of the state police. ET has accessed director general of police HC … Read more