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Preface. Contents. Scope of the study. Introduction to the concept of gender-related killing of women and girls. Key findings. Intimate partner/family-related killing of women and girls: scale of the problem. Scale of the problem in numbers of victims. Scale of the problem in homicide rates. Scale of the problem in shares of all women murdered. Female burden of intimate partner/family-related homicide. Male and female rates of intimate partner/family-related homicide. Male and female rates of intimate partner homicide. The context of gender-related killing of women and girls. Defining and understanding gender-related killing of women and girls. Clustering gender-related killings of women and girls into different forms. Perpetrators of intimate partner killings of women and girls. Victim and perpetrator characteristics. Motives of perpetrators of intimate partner killings of women and girls.Link between lethal and non-lethal violence against women. Criminal justice and policy responses to gender-related killing of women and girls. International responses. National responses. Conclusions and Policy Implications. Annex.