Femicides in 2024: global estimates of intimate partner and family member femicides
UNODC and UN Women, November 2025
VerifyAbout 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
VerifyAbout 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.
Verify370 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
VerifyOne 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
Verify12 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
Verify73% 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
Verify38% 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
VerifyPrevalence 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
Verify80% 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
VerifyAverage age of first exposure 13; a tenth by 9. verify
Child marriage data
UNICEF
VerifyAbout 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
VerifyAround 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
VerifyNearly 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
VerifyPolitical 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
VerifyTwelve 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
VerifyFirst UN definition of violence against women.
CEDAW
UN General Assembly, 1979
VerifySigned 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)
VerifyFirst UN resolutions naming femicide; call for data collection and criminal justice responses.
Security Council resolutions 2331 (2016) and 2388 (2017)
UN Security Council
VerifyTrafficking in persons in conflict situations.
CEDAW General Recommendation No. 35 on gender-based violence against women
CEDAW Committee, 2017, updating General Recommendation 19 (1992)
VerifyGender-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
VerifyState 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
VerifyFirst 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
VerifyTreaty 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
VerifyTreaty 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
VerifyDefinition of trafficking including exploitation of the prostitution of others.
Security Council resolution 1820 (2008)
UN Security Council
VerifySexual violence as a tactic of war and a matter of international peace and security.
Security Council resolution 1325
UN Security Council, 2000
VerifyWomen, peace and security agenda.
Sustainable Development Goal 5
UN, 2015
VerifyTarget 5.2 on eliminating violence against women and girls including trafficking and sexual exploitation.