Recently, this blog has touched on how warfare between nations in the digital era includes cyberattacks. And now, just as we already are feeling less than safe, the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (the UNODC) has released some homicide statistics that can make us feel even more vulnerable.
According to the UNODC study, as many as 437,000 people were murdered around the world in 2012 alone. Here’s what else the study found:
Of all of the world’s homicide victims, almost 80 percent were men; 95 percent of the perpetrators were also men.
Continue reading “UN Homicide Report Shows the World Is Not a Safe Place”