Every six hours of the past 365 days in 2023, a woman was brutally murdered in Brazil. Data collected and published by the National Forum of Public Safety this Thursday, ahead of International Women’s Day, which is celebrated this Friday, shows that even despite some small strides in the recognition of rights and opportunities made in recent years, women continue to be killed in Brazil .
At least 1,463 women were killed last year, giving an average of four femicides a day, according to the survey. This is the highest figure recorded since femicide monitoring began in 2015, but the number could be higher, much higher, as police in some of the country’s 27 states do not have complete and reliable data.
The vast majority of victims, seven out of ten, were black and lived in poor areas. Also, in most cases, the killers were very close people who were in a relationship or had already been in a relationship with the victim, for example, a husband or partner, an ex-boyfriend, in many cases unhappy with the woman’s desire to end the relationship. or her refusal to get him back together after breaking up with the aggressor.
The state of Mato Grosso, located in central-western Brazil, had the most women killed last year, with 2.5 femicides per 100,000 inhabitants. In second place in this ranking of female mortality with an indicator of 2.4 are three states in the north of the country: Acre, Rondonia and Tocantins, and in third place with 2.3 women killed per 100 thousand inhabitants is Brasilia. , which concentrates large groups of extremely poor and violent populations around the imposing buildings and palaces that house the country’s federal government.
The three Brazilian states where fewer women were killed last year, at least according to the data that could be collected, are in the northeast – Ceará, in the southeast – Sao Paulo and in the far north of the Amazon – Amapa. In Ceará, where fewer women were killed in 2023, the femicide rate was 0.9 per 100,000 inhabitants, but this may not be realistic, the Forum says, because data sent by government authorities is incomplete. In Sao Paulo the figure was 1 death per 100 thousand, and in Amapá it was 1.1.
Author: Domingos Grilo Serrinha This correspondent in Brazil
Source: CM Jornal
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