The number of murders of women in Brazil increased by five percent in 2022 to 1,400 compared to the previous year. So, on average, a femicide is committed every six hours. Femicide is when a woman is killed because of her gender.
All in all, the number of all homicides in Latin America’s largest country fell slightly in the past year compared to the previous year. The number of femicides, on the other hand, is the highest since 2015.
That year, Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s then president and current head of the BRICS development bank, signed a law providing for harsh punishments for killing women and girls. Murders due to domestic violence or because of gender were explicitly referred to as femicide in the legal guideline.
In other Latin American countries, especially Argentina, Chile and Mexico, more and more women are speaking up and demanding their rights.
Source: Krone
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