Useful sources about Africa

The United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute’s library aims to contribute to the global sharing of criminal justice information. It includes publications, reports and other electronic resources on crime and justice, as well as an international criminology directory. It was established in 1969.

The UN Office on Drugs and Crime’s database gives statistics on police, data, criminal justice and prisons across the world and in Africa.

Constituting the fifth part of the Global Study on Homicide 2019, this booklet gives an overview of the scope of gender-related killing of women and girls. It provides in-depth analysis of killings perpetrated within the family sphere and examines forms of gender-related killings perpetrated outside the family sphere, such as the killing of women in conflict and the killing of female sex workers. The booklet explores the scale of intimate partner/family-related killings of women and girls, and describes different forms of gender-related killings of women. It also looks at the characteristics of the perpetrators of intimate partner killings, the link between lethal and non-lethal violence against women, and the criminal justice response.