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A report into deaths from gender based violence from the National Mortality Review Committee has found there's been no significant reduction in the number of victims between 2009 and 2022. NZ Police data shows between 2007 and 2022 a third of the 1,169 homicides in New Zealand were women and more than half were killed by someone in their family. In a effort to get a clear picture of fatal violence against women and children, the update from the Committee has expanded it's scope to include deaths that have not previously been included, such as homicide with no family connection. Dr Nicola Atwool, chair of the Family Violence Death Review expert group, says the new broader approach to examining femicide - the murder of women and girls - includes violence during pregnancy that contributes to deaths of mothers and babies. She joins Kathryn to discuss what's need to try to make a change.
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Audio correction
In the interview Nicola Atwool misspoke and said in 68 percent of the cases of maternal suicide, there was a previous record of family violence. The actual figure is 63 percent.
