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🌍 Global reality (worldwide)

🔴 Women murdered (femicide)

• Around 50,000 women and girls per year are killed by a partner or family member 
• That is:
  • ~137 women every day
  • Roughly 1 woman every 10 minutes
• Total female homicides (all causes) are higher:
  • Around 80,000–85,000 women per year globally

👉 The key point:
Most women are killed by someone they know, not strangers.

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💔 Suicide linked to abuse

This is harder to measure (and often hidden), but:

• Domestic abuse is strongly linked to:
  • Depression
  • PTSD
  • Suicide risk
• Many experts believe suicides linked to abuse are underreported
• Some regional research suggests:
  • Significant numbers of women who die by suicide have experienced abuse

👉 Important truth:
These deaths are often not officially recorded as abuse-related, even when they are.

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🇪🇸 Spain

• Around 50–60 women per year are killed by partners/ex-partners in Spain
• Tens of thousands report gender violence annually
  • e.g. 34,000+ cases recorded in 2024

👉 Again, these are only reported cases—the real number is higher.

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🧠 Neuroscience & psychology behind this

Why women are not believed (and the consequences)

The brain plays a major role in this:

1. Just-world bias

People want to believe:

“Bad things don’t happen without a reason”

So they ask:

• “Why didn’t she leave?”
• “What did she do?”

👉 This reduces their own fear—but blames the victim

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2. Cognitive dissonance

People struggle to accept:

• “He seems normal”
• “He is dangerous”

So they resolve it by:

• Doubting the woman
• Minimising the behaviour

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3. Normalisation over time

When warning signs are ignored:

• Behaviour escalates
• Risk increases
• Intervention comes too late

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⚠️ The hard truth

• Many women report concerns before they are killed
• Many are not fully believed, supported, or protected in time
• Many cases show patterns of prior abuse

👉 Which means:

These deaths are often not sudden.
They are the end of a pattern that was missed, minimised, or ignored.

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💬 Final reality

How many die.

The answer is:

• Tens of thousands murdered globally every year
• Many more driven to suicide
• Millions living with abuse

But the most important truth is this:

👉 It is not just about numbers
👉 It is about patterns not being taken seriously early enough

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