At least 48,384 individuals – mainly civilians – were killed in 2024, on the basis of the victims recorded by Ohchr.
“Behind each statistic is a story. Behind each data point, one person, “said UN Rights Chief Volker Türk.
This alarming increase in civil death exposes major failures to protect some of the most vulnerable in peacetime and in conflict time, ” Painting an image of a global landscape of human rights that needs urgent action“He said.
Human rights defenders
Just over 500 of the people killed in 2024 were human rights defenders, the number of journalists killed also increasing by 10%, comparing 2023 to 2024.
The targeting level of defenders and human rights journalists has remained alarming: At least one defender, journalist or human rights trade unionist has been killed or disappeared every 14 days.
The detention of rights defenders were the most widespread in North Africa, in the center, in the south and west of Asia. The murders were the most widespread in Latin America and the Caribbean.
An alarming increase in the death of women and children
Violence against children and women in armed conflicts has been devastating in the past two years.
Between 2023 and 2024, about four times more children and women were killed in armed conflicts than in 2021-2022.
Women have said they had sex -based discrimination more than double the rate of men, and the poorest households were the harshest, which perpetuates the cycles of poverty and inequality.
“” Discrimination does not exist in isolation“Said Mr. Türk, while the conclusions of the OHCHR revealed generalized and aggravated discrimination, with almost one in three disabled people who experienced discrimination, against less than one in five without disability.
Publicado anteriormente en Almouwatin.
