The number of rapes of women in Brazil increased by 3.7% in 2021 Compared to the previous year, with 56,098 such cases being recorded across the country, or in other words one every ten minutes, reveals a report released yesterday Monday.
In its largest country Latin America There were also 1,319 female homicides last year, in other words she was murdered every seven hours; that number was down 2.7% from 2020, according to the report. non-governmental organization Public Security Forumwhich was published on the eve of International Women’s Day.
“These data demonstrate the urgent need to develop policies for the care, prevention and repression of violence against women in Brazil,” she said. Samira Buenothe director of the NGO, according to a press release that accompanied the exhibition.
“Despite the slight decrease in the number of female homicides, the numbers remain very high,” she said. The homicide rate is 1.22 per 100,000 women.
The report, which was based on allegations made to police stations, concerns only the rapes that have been reported, which means that it reveals only a part of them.
It also records that the number of female homicides increased dramatically from February to May 2020when the strictest restrictive measures were imposed in Brazil to stop the spread of the new coronavirus pandemic.
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