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The women killed on one day around the world - BBC News</div>

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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#1E1E1E; background:yellow">The Women Killed on One Day Around the World</span></b><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#1E1E1E"></span></b></p>

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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">An average of 137 women across the world are killed by a partner or family member every day, according to new data released by the United Nations Office on Drugs

 and Crime (UNODC).</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040"></span></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">November 25, 2019 - They say it makes "the home the most likely place for a woman to be killed".

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">More than half of the 87,000 women killed in 2017 were reported as dying at the hands of those closest to them.

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">Of that figure, approximately

</span><a href="https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/frontpage/2018/November/home-the-most-dangerous-place-for-women-with-majority-of-female-homicide-victims-worldwide-killed-by-partners-or-family--unodc-study-says.html?ref=fs1" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#222222; text-decoration:none">30,000

 women were killed by an intimate partner</span></b></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040"> and another 20,000 by a relative.</span></p>

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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#1E1E1E">Male homicide rates still higher</span></b></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">The data collected by UNODC highlights that "men are around four times more likely than women to lose their lives as a result of intentional homicide".</span></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">The UN indicates that men accounted for eight out of 10 homicide victims worldwide.</span></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">However, the same report suggests that more than eight out of 10 victims of homicides committed by intimate partners are female.</span></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">"Intimate partner violence continues to take a disproportionately heavy toll on women," the report states.</span></p>

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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:18.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#1E1E1E">Forty-seven women, 21 countries, one day</span></b></p>

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<a href="https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/GSH2018/GSH18_Gender-related_killing_of_women_and_girls.pdf" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#222222; text-decoration:none">The

 UN statistics summarise the findings for 2017 </span></b></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">based on homicide statistics provided by government sources. The figures for "gender-related killings of

 women and girls", or "femicide", are collated using the criteria of intimate partner/family-related homicide.

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">BBC 100 Women and BBC Monitoring set out to find out more about the women behind the numbers.</span></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">We monitored press coverage of women killed by another person on 1 October 2018 around the world. Our regional specialists counted 47 women reported killed, apparently

 for gender-related reasons, in 21 different countries. Most of these killings are still being investigated.

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">Here are five of these cases, reported initially by local media and then verified by local authorities the BBC contacted.</span></p>

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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:18.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#1E1E1E">Judith Chesang, 22, Kenya</span></b><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:18.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040"></span></b></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">On Monday 1 October, Judith Chesang and her sister Nancy were out in the fields harvesting their sorghum crop.

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">Judith, a mother of three, had recently separated from her husband, Laban Kamuren, and had decided to return to her parents' village in the north of the country.

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">Soon after the sisters began their duties, he arrived at the family farm where he attacked and killed Judith.</span></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">Local police say he has since been killed by villagers.</span></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">Africa was where women ran the greatest risk of being killed by their intimate partner or family member, the UN report says. It occurred at a rate of 3.1 deaths per

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">Asia had the greatest number of women killed by intimate partners or family members in 2017, with a total of 20,000.</span></p>

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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:18.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#1E1E1E">Neha Sharad Chaudury, 18, India</span></b></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">Neha Sharad Chaudury died in a suspected "honour" killing on her 18th birthday. She had been out celebrating with her boyfriend. Police confirmed to the BBC that her

 parents did not approve of the relationship. </span></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">Her parents and another male relative are accused of killing her in their home that evening.</span></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">The investigation continues and the three remain in judicial custody awaiting trial.

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">The BBC has learned from the lawyer representing Neha's parents and her male relative that they intend to deny the charges.

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">Hundreds of people are killed each year for falling in love or marrying against their families' wishes. Official data on so-called honour killings is hard to come by

 as such crimes are often unrecorded or unreported.</span></p>

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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:18.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#1E1E1E">Zeinab Sekaanvan, 24, Iran</span></b></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">Zeinab Sekaanvan was executed by the Iranian authorities for murdering her husband.

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">Zeinab was born in the north-west of Iran into a poor conservative family of Kurdish origin. She ran away as a teenager to marry in the hope of finding a better life.</span></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">Amnesty International says

</span><a href="http://time.com/5415628/zeinab-sekaanvand-iran-execution-violence/" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#222222; text-decoration:none">her

 husband was abusive and had refused to grant her a divorce</span></b></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">, and that her complaints were ignored by police.</span></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">She was arrested for the killing of her husband at the age of 17.</span></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">Her supporters, including Amnesty, say she was

</span><a href="https://www.amnesty.org.uk/iran-child-bride-executed-after-stillbirth" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#222222; text-decoration:none">tortured

 to confess to the killing of her husband, beaten by police and did not receive a fair trial</span></b></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">.</span></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">The UNODC report suggests women who kill intimate partners have often experienced "extended periods of suffering physical violence".</span></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">Meanwhile, the motivations typically expressed by male perpetrators include "possessiveness, jealousy and fear of abandonment", the report says. This appears to be the

 case with another long-term couple who were found dead in Brazil on the same day that Zeinab was executed.</span></p>

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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:18.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#1E1E1E">Sandra Lucia Hammer Moura, 39, Brazil</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040"><img 0?="" width="976" height="549" id="Picture_x0020_9" alt="Sandra Lucia Hammer Moura" style="width: 10.1666in; height: 5.7187in; user-select: none;" src="service.svc/s/GetFileAttachment?id=AAMkADA2ODU2ZDBkLWYzNWItNGFhOC04ZmVmLWE0OTJiMmYzZWM5OABGAAAAAABGBw2b0skdSLjxkXc4kboFBwBNFUSRsW3TRIo6RTo9vvdQAAAAAAEPAABNFUSRsW3TRIo6RTo9vvdQAAME6O5oAAABEgAQALiY6iQXTF1MrEwVPg5mM8Q%3D&X-OWA-CANARY=Ow8qW3DqAU-O87-dLVVOSZDR6Zdod9cIPBVHw7C-3tbwSvTV-x3nVr72G4MBY7zpDb_W5Nh6Z-A."></span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:18.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#1E1E1E"></span></b></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">Sandra Lucia Hammer Moura married Augusto Aguiar Ribeiro at the age of 16.</span></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">The couple had been separated for five months when she was killed by him.</span></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">Police in Jardim Taquari confirmed to BBC Brasil that she was stabbed in the neck.

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">They found a video of her husband confessing to the crime on his mobile phone. In it, he said that Sandra was already dating another man and he felt betrayed.

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">He also said in the video that he would not be arrested as the couple would go to the "glory of the Lord" together. He then hanged himself in what had been their bedroom.

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">Sandra's case highlights a form of killing known as a "murder-suicide" - when an individual kills one or more people before killing themselves.

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">BBC Monitoring found 14 cases of women killed on 1 October this year in Latin America. Two were in El Salvador.

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">Authorities in El Salvador have told the BBC that at least 300 women have been killed so far in 2018. Karla Turcios is one of them.

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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:18.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">Is El Salvador the worst country to be a woman?</span></b></p>

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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:18.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#1E1E1E">Marie-Am�lie Vaillat, 36, France</span></b></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">Marie-Am�lie was stabbed to death by her husband, S�bastien Vaillat.</span></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">The couple had separated after four years of marriage.

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">He attacked her with a knife before confessing to the police. A few days later, he killed himself in prison.</span></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">Outside the door of Marie-Am�lie Vaillat's lingerie shop on Rue Bichat, residents left a sea of flowers and organised a march in her memory.</span></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">The killing of Marie-Am�lie came on

</span><a href="https://www.thelocal.fr/20181001/france-reveals-new-measures-to-combat-domestic-violence" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#222222; text-decoration:none">the

 same day that the French government announced new plans to tackle domestic abuse</span></b></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">.</span></p>

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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:18.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#1E1E1E">What does it take for a woman's killing to be reported?</span></b></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">To collect these stories, BBC Monitoring's international network of journalists and researchers analysed TV, radio, print, online and social media around the world,

 looking for reports of women killed, apparently for gender-related reasons, on 1 October 2018.

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">They found a total of 47 reports of women killed on that one day around the world. We have shared just some of those cases. There are many more where the motives were

 unclear, or the perpetrators unidentified.</span></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">The new UNODC report suggests that a large share of violence against women is "widely underreported to authorities and that a large share of such violence is hidden".</span></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">Rebecca Skippage, who led the project for BBC Monitoring, found that behind the numbers, "the way in which the media reported their lives and deaths revealed a huge

 amount about how women are viewed by different societies around the world". </span>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">She explains: "We were looking for deaths within one day, but we searched for that day's stories for a month. We found that the time-lag in reporting, the tone of the

 coverage or the scarcity of information often told a wider tale about the status of women in that region."</span></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">Maryam Azwer works for BBC Monitoring and drew much of the final data together.</span></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">"This is as much about the deaths that aren't reported, as those that are," she says.</span></p>

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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#404040">"Those whose stories never reached the media, that went unreported, were unverified, or were not or could not be investigated. It makes you wonder: what does it take

 to make a woman's killing important enough to be reported?"</span></p>

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