This research brief focuses on female victims of intimate partner and family-related homicide, primarily because data on this type of homicide are more readily available and comparable than data on gender-related killings that take place outside the home. However, it must be emphasized
that gender-related killings of women and girls can take place in different situations within both the private and public spheres, and within different contexts of victim‐perpetrator relationship. Examples include homicides as a result of intimate partner violence, as well as murder following rape, so-called “honour killings”, dowry-related killings, killings of women accused of witchcraft and gender-motivated homicides connected with armed conflict or with gangs, trafficking in persons and other forms of organized crime. (From the Introduction).

This is the second joint UNODC and UN Women global research brief on the gender-related killings of
women and girls.

This report includes " Preventing domestic killings of women in Aotearoa New Zealand" contributed by Pauline Gulliver (Family Violence Death Review Committee at the Health Quality & Safety Commission). Record #8428