UN report documents scale of violence against women, urges naming femicide and more prevention funding

Panelists used the snapshot to draw attention to violent threats to women and girls and to call for clearer measurement and naming of femicide. "One in 10 women and girls are killed every 10 minutes," a panelist said, and Sarah Hendricks gave a 2024 tally: "Nearly 50,000 women and girls were killed by an intimate partner or another family member in 2024."

Hendricks said Afghanistan represents one of the most severe crises for women and girls where systematic exclusion has erased educational and employment opportunities; she also answered questions about seemingly anomalous country cases such as Mozambique by pointing to declines in external aid and insufficient domestic financing to support services that drive child survival improvements. The panel emphasized that the snapshot includes a new UN statistical methodology to count femicide and urged that naming and measurement be used to direct prevention and survivor services.