About 137 women killed by someone they knew every day in 2017: UN report

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — More than half of the approximately 87,000 women killed in 2017 died at the hands of intimate partners or family members, according to a report released Sunday by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Some 50,000 were killed globally by someone they knew, the organization estimated. That works out to …

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