Nicola Thorp Instagram – The 95 women who have been killed by men in the last year in the UK.
This International Women’s Day, as statistics show that a woman is killed on average every three days in the UK, the government has reiterated its commitment to halving violence against women and girls in a decade.
For the past 10 years, Jess Phillips @jessphillipsmp has read the names of women suspected of being killed by men on International Women’s Day, provided by the Femicide Census. But today (Thursday 6th March) she read out the names for the first time from the front benches as a Home Office Minister, and reiterated that ensuring our streets and homes are safer for women is now a top government priority.
This comes as the data shows that 1 in 5 homicides are domestic homicides and that over the last decade there were:
898 female victims of domestic homicides;
of these, 698 victims (78%) were killed by a partner or ex-partner;
and over 9 in 10 female homicide victims were killed by a man (92%).
These are numbers that the government has committed to change. | Posted on 06/Mar/2025 23:20:18
