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  1. Oct 28, 2019 · While difficult to measure with precision, as many as 600,000 people - including almost 100,000 women and girls - die around the world each year as a result of conflict, crime, extremist and extrajudicial violence. Millions more suffer physical and psychological injuries associated with warfare, criminality, and sexual and gender-based violence ...

  2. The strategy should (1) provide the basis for a more systematic and comprehensive approach to early warning and assessment; (2) provide guidance on how the United Nations system can mainstream ...

  3. Oct 30, 2019 · Image: UNODC. The first step to effectively reducing violence by 2030 is to have a clear sense of how it is distributed in time and space. Take the case of lethal violence. There is a ...

  4. Oct 18, 2023 · The high rates of violence could have to do with the formation of political units vying for control, which may have escalated local quarrels to larger and more organized conflicts.

  5. Jan 26, 2023 · Against a backdrop of the highest number of violent conflicts since the Second World War and a consequent, pervasive sense of insecurity around the world, the United Nations must rethink its efforts to achieve sustainable peace, the Security Council heard today, as speakers presented suggestions to that end during an open debate on investing in people to enhance resilience against complex ...

  6. In the past 15 years, more than half of the world’s population has lived in direct contact or proximity to significant political violence. For women and girls, the home remains the most ...

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  8. Jan 12, 2024 · Though this may seem like a small increase, it suggests that compared with 2022, experts now believe nuclear weapons will spread more quickly—about 21 percent more quickly, in fact. When asked about which actors they expect to actually use a nuclear weapon within the next ten years, 20 percent of our experts said a terrorist group—up from just 3 percent last year.