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Guns are the weapons most widely used to kill women
Firearms were the weapons most widely used to kill women in 44 countries around the world, according to the
Third International Report on Partner Violence against Women. In 2006, over half of femicides in Croatia,
Cyprus, Colombia, Honduras, Paraguay and Puerto Rico involved guns. In the same year, the countries with the
highest number of women killed (per million women) were El Salvador, Guatemala, Lithuania, Colombia and
Honduras. The Report, published by the Queen Sofia Centre in Spain, also presents 28 national laws combating
intimate partner violence which were enacted between 2004 and 2006.
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