It’s a gruesome reality that is true around the world: Women face the greatest danger in their own homes, according to a new report on homicides around the world by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

More than half of all female homicide victims last year were killed by intimate partners or relatives, the report found. And efforts in some countries to stem such killings through new legal strategies and social programs have not yet made tangible progress, researchers concluded.

The report, released this week to coincide with the United Nations-designated International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, examined how violence against women and girls relates to their status and role in society.

The killing of a woman is “a lethal act on a continuum of gender-based discrimination and abuse,” Yury Fedotov, the agency’s executive director, wrote in the report’s preface. Here are four key takeaways.