Summary
A U.N. report shows that 140 women and girls were killed daily by intimate partners or family members in 2023, totaling 51,100 victims, an increase of 2,300 from 2022.
The rise reflects improved data collection rather than an increase in violence.
The highest rates were in Africa, with 2.9 victims per 100,000 people.
Despite global prevention efforts, these killings, often the result of ongoing gender-based violence, persist at alarming levels.
The report emphasizes the preventability of such violence through timely and effective interventions.
Okay, I understand the sentiment behind this comment (and I didn’t downvote you), because men’s issues are often underrepresented or even ignored (see: rape) in key areas, but consider this (to clarify, this is fake data meant to mirror this article): two UN agencies come out and say that this year, 50,000 gay men have died from AIDS, 2,000 more than last year. AIDS deaths are on the rise. The report notes that even though non-gay men tend to be more affected by chronic illness overall, gay men are disproportionately affected by AIDS.
Or maybe there’s a report about how people in South America disproportionately die to a specific kind of insect-transmitted disease, and the UN creates a report on it. They note the vast majority of insect-borne illness deaths are from malaria in Africa, but that this specific disease most affects people in South America.
Would you be here standing up on a podium decrying that the announcement focuses on gay people? Or that it focuses on South America? The point of this finding is that there’s an area where someone is disproportionately affected, and unlike just “homicide”, a lot more can be done in the short-term to prevent domestic violence.
As another comment noted, this is whataboutism. I don’t think it’s being done in bad faith, but it’s still whataboutism.
When the “disproportion” is only 60% vs 40%, that’s a fairly small gap, only a 10% shift.
Enough to be within the realm that it’s more likely to just be a reporting problem to swing the other way.
Meanwhile in reality gay men have at times been disproportionately affected by aids on the scale of hundreds to thousands of times worse than other demographics.
So yeah, no, a 10% shift off bias is not actually terribly huge.
Especially when in the same paragraph they acknowledge a 30% shift bias for men in general, and didn’t remark on that at all.
To call “50% more likely” a huge issue in one sentence and then skim over "300% more likely as not being noteworthy is fucked up
But no one bats an eye at this because that violence is normalized.
