We talk a lot about the danger of dark alleys, but the truth is that in every country around the world the home is the most dangerous place for a woman. Of the 87,000 women killed globally in 2017, more than a third (30,000) were killed by an intimate partner, and another 20,000 by a family member.1 Every week across England and Wales, two women are killed by a man they’ve been intimate with;2 and in 2019 the number of domestic homicides increased by a shocking 27 per cent compared to 2018.
