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New York

2024 Annual Fact Sheet

NYC Mayor's Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence (ENDGBV), published 3 October 2025
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66 domestic violence homicides in 2024 (33 intimate partner, 33 family); 249,077 domestic incident reports (116,051 intimate partner, 92,884 family, 40,142 unknown); borough tables for 2023 and 2024; 57,656 Family Justice Center visits; hotline calls 87,985 in 2023 and 81,949 in 2024.

2025 Annual Report on Domestic Violence Initiatives, Indicators and Factors

ENDGBV, Local Law 38 report covering 2025
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Not yet used for figures. 2025 totals to be added when extracted.

2023 Annual Report

ENDGBV
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Homicide series: 62 in 2021, 71 in 2022, 73 in 2023 (73 is derived from the 2024 fact sheet's 2023 columns: 30 intimate partner plus 43 family).

2024 New York State Gender-Based Violence Dashboard

NYS Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence, November 2025. Interactive Tableau version linked.
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241,351 orders of protection; 87,417 and 167,551 hotline calls; 8,289 state hotline and 11,676 national hotline calls; 10,227 residential admissions; 24,635 shelter denials (12,696 adults, 11,939 children); 115 and 44 day average stays; 67,934 family offense petitions; 10,087 extreme risk orders; 38 intimate partner homicides outside NYC (32 women, 4 men, 2 unknown). PDF brief.

NISVS 2023/2024 Sexual Violence Data Brief

CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 2025. First national sexual violence data since 2016/2017.
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Women lifetime: 21.0% completed or attempted rape, 20.3% sexual coercion, 39.0% unwanted sexual contact, 45.1% any contact sexual violence. Men: 3.2% rape, 16.9% contact sexual violence. Past 12 months: 5.5% of women any contact sexual violence, 1.1% rape; 10.3% of women and 6.9% of men technology-facilitated sexual violence. The 26.8 million figure is from a secondary summary. NSVRC write-up.

NISVS 2023/2024 Intimate Partner Violence Data Brief

CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 2025
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Women lifetime: 34.0% (43.5 million) contact sexual violence, physical violence or stalking by a partner; 19.7% contact sexual violence, 8.6% rape; 22.5% physical violence, 18.2% severe; 12.2% stalking; 30.2% psychological aggression, 27.2% coercive control. Past 12 months: 5.2% (6.7 million). Men lifetime 17.0% (20.7 million). State range 21.0% to 48.1%.

NISVS 2010 Summary Report

CDC, 2011
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Age at first completed rape among female victims: about 80% before 25; 42.2% before 18; 29.9% at 11 to 17; 12.3% at 10 or younger.

NISVS 2016/2017 Report on Intimate Partner Violence

CDC, 2022
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More than 1 in 4 female IPV victims first victimised before 18; almost three quarters before 25.

Quick Facts: Sexual Abuse, Tax Fraud; 2024 Sourcebook

United States Sentencing Commission, fiscal year 2024
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Sexual abuse: 1,395 cases, average 221 months, median 210, 99.2% imprisoned; criminal sexual abuse (rape) average 229 months. Tax fraud: 440 cases, average 15 months, 66% imprisoned. Fraud, theft, embezzlement: 5,312 cases, mean 21, median 12 months. Tax PDF, Sourcebook.

Felony Sentences in State Courts, 1998

Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2001. Last full series with rape sentence lengths.
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Mean maximum sentence for rape 125 months (147 where prison), sexual assault 94 months.

Statistics

RAINN, from the Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey
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An American is sexually assaulted every 68 seconds; every 9 minutes the victim is a child. Funnel of 1,000 assaults to 50 arrests, 28 felony convictions, 25 incarcerations cited via Arizona DPS. verify

CompStat citywide report

NYPD, weekly
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Rape complaints year to date, April 2025: 606 against 485, up 24.9%. Borough reports for Manhattan North and South through late October 2025. The linked PDF is replaced weekly; the figures quoted are from the April and October 2025 editions.

ENDGBV: The Intersection of Domestic Violence, Race/Ethnicity and Sex

NYC Open Data, dataset 2rb7-7eqa, NYPD incident-level records 2020 to 2021, queried live by the New York page
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About 484,000 records: 464,906 domestic incident reports, 17,639 felony assaults, 1,245 rapes; victim and suspect age, sex and race, intimate relationship flag, borough, community district. Snapshot saved 22 October 2026 in docs/data.

NYC Domestic Violence Fatality Review Committee, 2024 Annual Report

City of New York, published 30 December 2024
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564 incidents, 612 victims, 2014 to 2023; 47.2% intimate partner; 16.5% of all homicides; 61 a year; Black women 2.5 times the risk. verify Quoted via summaries.

Every Death Was Preventable

Urban Resource Institute, 2025
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More than 60% of intimate partner homicide victims had no prior contact with a municipal institution; domestic violence felony assaults at least 40% of the citywide felony assault increase.

US Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York: Penn Track and Sayville Motor Lodge cases

Department of Justice press releases, 2025 to 2026
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Omari Scott: 50 years, murder in the course of sex trafficking. Joel Forney: convicted August 2025. Michael Johnson: 22 years, Sayville. verify Dates from search summaries; the DOJ pages block automated reading.

Women in New York still earn far less than men

Office of the New York State Comptroller, March 2025, from American Community Survey 2023
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$62,111 median earnings for women working full time, year round; $71,168 for men.

Case-level data

Women Count USA: Femicide Accountability Project, the databases

Dawn Wilcox, 2016 to present. Fifteen Airtable databases, 1950s to 2026. Copyrighted material.
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Embedded on the patterns page through the owner's share links. No figures copied.

Global

Femicides in 2024: global estimates of intimate partner and family member femicides

UNODC and UN Women, November 2025
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About 50,000 women and girls killed by a partner or family member in 2024; about 137 a day; 60% of all intentional killings of women; 117 countries; 2023 estimate 51,100.

Violence against women prevalence estimates, 2018

World Health Organization, 2021
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About one in three women worldwide subjected to physical or sexual violence in their lifetime.

New global data expose acute prevalence of violence against children

UNICEF press release, October 2024. First global estimate of sexual violence in childhood, 120 countries and territories, 2010 to 2022.
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370 million girls and women (1 in 8) raped or sexually assaulted in childhood; 650 million (1 in 5) including non-contact violence; 410 to 530 million boys and men.

Global Annual Results Report 2024: every child is protected from violence and exploitation

UNICEF, 2025
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One in six adolescent girls aged 15 to 19, about 50 million, experienced physical or sexual violence. verify

Child marriage: latest trends and future prospects

UNICEF, summarised by UNICEF USA
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12 million girls married each year; about 300 years to zero at the current pace; 35% in sub-Saharan Africa against 38% a decade earlier; 640 to 650 million women and girls alive today married in childhood.

Teens and Pornography

Common Sense Media, January 2023, survey of 1,358 US teens aged 13 to 17
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73% have seen pornography; average age of first exposure 12; 15% at 10 or younger; 54% by 13; 58% encountered it accidentally, 44% intentionally.

Measuring the prevalence of online violence against women

Economist Intelligence Unit, 2021, 51 countries
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38% of women experienced online violence; 85% witnessed it against other women.

Accelerating efforts to tackle online and technology-facilitated violence against women and girls

UN Women, 2022
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Prevalence 16% to 58% across countries; girls' first social media harassment most often at 14 to 16.

Adolescence at risk: online misogyny, mental health and the urgent need for action

ACAMH review, 2025, citing Hope not Hate (2023), Internet Matters (2023) and the recommendation-algorithm experiment
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80% of British boys aged 16 and 17 consumed Andrew Tate content; 56% of fathers under 35 approve; blank teen accounts recommended manosphere content, worst on YouTube Shorts. verify Secondary; primary polls to be linked.

Children's Commissioner for England, pornography and children

2023
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Average age of first exposure 13; a tenth by 9. verify

Child marriage data

UNICEF
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About 12 million girls married before 18 each year; about one in five young women married in childhood. verify Quoted from UNICEF's standing estimate; the exact current figure to be confirmed.

Cost of violence against women

UNDP and UN Women statements
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Around 2% of global GDP, about $1.5 trillion. verify An older research estimate the UN continues to cite; underlying study to be traced.

Women's Rights in Review 30 Years After Beijing

UN Women, March 2025
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Nearly one in four governments reported a backlash on women's rights in 2024. verify Quoted via press coverage; exact wording to be checked.

Sixty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women

UN Women, March 2025
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Political declaration adopted at the opening of CSW69, 10 March 2025, marking thirty years of the Beijing Platform for Action.

Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action

Fourth World Conference on Women, 1995
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Twelve critical areas of concern including violence against women; trafficking and prostitution named within it.

Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women

UN General Assembly resolution 48/104, 1993
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First UN definition of violence against women.

CEDAW

UN General Assembly, 1979
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Signed by the United States in 1980, never ratified.

Taking action against gender-related killing of women and girls

UN General Assembly resolution 68/191 (2013) and 70/176 (2015)
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First UN resolutions naming femicide; call for data collection and criminal justice responses.

Security Council resolutions 2331 (2016) and 2388 (2017)

UN Security Council
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Trafficking in persons in conflict situations.

CEDAW General Recommendation No. 35 on gender-based violence against women

CEDAW Committee, 2017, updating General Recommendation 19 (1992)
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Gender-based violence against women as a human rights violation; state responsibility under due diligence.

González et al. ("Cotton Field") v. Mexico

Inter-American Court of Human Rights, judgment of 16 November 2009
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State liability for failure to investigate femicides in Ciudad Juárez; ordered creation of a femicide database and gender-perspective investigation protocols.

Opuz v. Turkey

European Court of Human Rights, application 33401/02, judgment of 9 June 2009
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First finding that a state's failure to protect against domestic violence amounted to sex discrimination under the Convention.

Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women (Belém do Pará)

Organization of American States, 1994
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Treaty duty to prevent, punish and eradicate violence against women; not ratified by the United States.

Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention)

Council of Europe, 2011
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Treaty duties on prevention, protection, prosecution and data collection.

Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (Palermo Protocol)

United Nations, 2000
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Definition of trafficking including exploitation of the prostitution of others.

Security Council resolution 1820 (2008)

UN Security Council
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Sexual violence as a tactic of war and a matter of international peace and security.

Security Council resolution 1325

UN Security Council, 2000
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Women, peace and security agenda.

Sustainable Development Goal 5

UN, 2015
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Target 5.2 on eliminating violence against women and girls including trafficking and sexual exploitation.

Economics and demography

What is the Economic Cost of Violence Against Women?

Andrea Saldarriaga Jimenez and Paula Kantor, Inter-American Development Bank blog, 7 October 2026. CC BY 4.0.
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One in four women in Latin America and the Caribbean has experienced partner violence; cost of killings of women 0.31% of regional GDP against 0.12% globally; Paraguay 5.12% and Ecuador 4.3% of GDP; Spain €4,933 million, 0.37%; South Africa 0.9% to 1.3%; Argentina 0.8% to 2.1% by bottom-up accounting, with its exclusions listed.

Economic toll of GBV: Kenya loses Sh41 billion annually, taskforce finds

Kamau Maichuhie, Daily Nation, 19 June 2025. Reporting on the Technical Working Group on Gender-Based Violence, Including Femicide, chaired by Dr Nancy Baraza, and Kenyatta University's Women's Economic Empowerment Hub.
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Sh41 billion a year; GDP losses 7.8% to 10%; 725 femicides in 2024, 2.66 per 100,000, 47 a week, 75% by someone known; 35% of women and girls affected; per-survivor care costs Sh109,551 in Nakuru and Sh111,113 in Makueni; 2016 study Sh46 billion, 1.1% of GDP; developing-country range 1.2% to 3.7% of GDP. verify Newspaper summary; taskforce report and UNODC figure to be checked at source.

When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2023 Homicide Data

Violence Policy Center, 2025, from FBI Supplementary Homicide Report data
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More than 2,400 females killed by males in 2023; 89.9% knew their killer; 64.9% by firearm; no state rankings this edition.

Women, Business and the Law 2024

World Bank, March 2024
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Women hold about 64% of the legal rights of men across 190 economies when implementation is counted; earlier measure 77%; under 40% of enforcement systems in place.

Lifetime Economic Burden of Intimate Partner Violence Among U.S. Adults

Peterson, Kearns, McIntosh et al., American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2018
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$103,767 per female victim; $23,414 per male victim; nearly $3.6 trillion population burden, in 2014 dollars.

Lifetime Economic Burden of Rape Among U.S. Adults

Peterson, DeGue, Florence, Lokey, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2017
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$122,461 per victim; about $3.1 trillion across an estimated 25 million adult victims.

Mortality in the United States, 2023

CDC National Center for Health Statistics, Data Brief 521
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Life expectancy for females 81.1 years in 2023.

Women in parliament, monthly ranking

Inter-Parliamentary Union, Parline
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About 27% of seats worldwide held by women. verify

Women in the U.S. Congress 2025

Center for American Women and Politics, Rutgers
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About 28% of Congress. verify

Fortune 500 women CEOs

Fortune, 2025
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About one in ten. verify

CATW and New York legislation

Coalition Against Trafficking in Women

catwinternational.org, working since 1988
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Three focus areas: advocating for strong laws, raising public awareness, supporting survivor leadership. Equality Model position. Regional offices CATW-AP and CATW-LAC.

From Impunity to Accountability: Deterring Sex Buyers in New York State and Beyond

Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, June 2022, with the Google My Maps layer "Sex Buyers of New York"
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141 geolocated sex-buyer reviews across ten regions; Brooklyn patronizing arrests 279 (2018), 82 (2019), 28 (2020); pimping arrests 36 to 7; Manhattan 107 arrests in 2011 against 400+ in Nashville; Operation Losing Proposition 156 arrests in three days, 900+ since 2013; 16% of US men have paid for sex; Sweden 0.29% in six months; 99% of buyers are men. PDF.

Legacy of Impact, CATW timeline 1988 to 2026

CATW about page
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Founding 1988; Beijing caucus 1995; Swedish law 1999; Palermo 2000; NYS Human Trafficking Act 2007; France 2016; Ireland 2017; FOSTA-SESTA 2018; New Yorkers for the Equality Model 2019; Sex Trade Survivors Justice and Equality Act introduced 2021; Maine 2023; UN Special Rapporteur report 2024; France ten years 2026.

CATW 2023 to 2024 Impact Report

CATW
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Recent work and campaigns.

Failed Promises: the history of legal prostitution and sex trafficking in the Kingdom of the Netherlands

CATW
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Evidence base for the Equality Model position.

Three Senate bills to combat human trafficking signed into law

New York State Senate, 2018
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S5988A created the crime of sex trafficking of a child, removing the force, fraud or coercion requirement under 18.

S8723, sex trafficking of mentally disabled or incapacitated persons

New York State Senate, Senator Zellnor Myrie, 2025 session
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Would extend the no-force-required standard to adults who are mentally disabled or incapacitated. verify Status and Assembly companion to be checked.

Epstein survivors plead for New York to close legal loophole blocking estate claims

Daily Metro News
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Statute of limitations and the bar on punitive damages against a deceased abuser's estate. verify Bill number to be identified.

Victims Protection and Child Sex Buyer Accountability Act

New York State
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Buying sex from 15 to 17 year olds made a felony. verify Chapter number and date to be added.

Representation, rights over time, child marriage

Women in parliament 2025

Inter-Parliamentary Union, March 2026
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27.5% of seats on 1 January 2026; 27.2% a year earlier; women Speakers 19.9%; MENA 16.2%; Oman, Tuvalu and Yemen with no women in the lower chamber.

Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India

Raghabendra Chattopadhyay and Esther Duflo, Econometrica 72(5), 2004
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265 village councils in West Bengal and Rajasthan; reserved women leaders invest more in goods women ask for.

Women, Business and the Law 2023, executive summary

World Bank
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Global average 77.1 in 2022, half a point above 2021, slowest pace since 2001; 70.06 around 2009; 74.71 in the 2019 edition.

Child marriage is still prevalent across the U.S. Here's why.

The 19th, July 2023, updated
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17 states banned marriage under 18 since 2018; 2025 and 2026 additions.

Help end child marriage

UNICEF USA
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New York and Rhode Island banned marriage under 18 in 2021 with no exceptions; Delaware and New Jersey in 2018.

Will Congress pass a law to make child marriage illegal?

NPR, 4 September 2026
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Countries setting 18 with no exceptions since 2021.

More states ban child marriage, though it's still legal in most of US

Stateline via News Tribune, August 2026
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33 states still allow marriage under 18 with conditions.

Project documents

CATW project brief and ranked outcomes

Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, October 2026. Shared with the team by email, not public.
Advocacy goal: codify sex trafficking and prostitution as forms of femicide in New York State law. The "about three dozen countries" figure is from this brief.

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