Study on Homicide is a search for solutions. By gathering the available data,
the Office of the United Nations against Drugs and Crime seeks to shed light on
different phenomena, from the lethal gang violence and the role of firearms to
links to inequalities and murder related to gender, and in this way support
targeted action. I hope that the investigation and analysis contained in the
study are used in this spirit, not to designate “murder capitals” but to learn,
understand and strengthen prevention. Criminal activity is responsible for far
more deaths around the world than armed conflict and combinations of terrorism.
Unless the international community takes decisive action, the goals of the Sustainable
Development Goal 16 to significantly reduce all forms of violence and rates of related
mortality by 2030 will not be reached.”
Study on Homicide is a search for solutions. By gathering the available data,
the Office of the United Nations against Drugs and Crime seeks to shed light on
different phenomena, from the lethal gang violence and the role of firearms to
links to inequalities and murder related to gender, and in this way support
targeted action. I hope that the investigation and analysis contained in the
study are used in this spirit, not to designate “murder capitals” but to learn,
understand and strengthen prevention. Criminal activity is responsible for far
more deaths around the world than armed conflict and combinations of terrorism.
Unless the international community takes decisive action, the goals of the Sustainable
Development Goal 16 to significantly reduce all forms of violence and rates of related
mortality by 2030 will not be reached.” (UNODOC, 2019)
