UN crime agency reports 437,000 intentional homicides in 2012

[JURIST] The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) released the results of the Global Study on Homicide 2013 (GSH) [official websites] which detailed the global prevalence of intentional homicides, finding 437,000 homicides in 2012. The UNODC collected [UN News Centre report] a wide breadth of statistical data including identities of perpetrators and victims, murder weapons, and murder rates by nation. The highest global murder rates were found in Africa and the Americas, and the data showed that nearly 750...

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