In its report, the National Truth Commission highlighted that at least 8,350 indigenous people were murdered, and many others endured various forms of violence and abuse.
Physical violence, the most common type among the four analyzed in the study, which accounts for 53 percent of registered cases, grew by 8.3 percent in the period.
The Ministry of Women on Tuesday has unveiled the Action Plan of the National Pact for the Prevention of Femicides. The efforts are part of the celebrations for women’s month of March in the promotion of gender equality.
“The institute brings history back to life. […] The whole world wants to know who and why Marielle was killed,” Marinete da Silva, the councilwoman’s mother and founding adviser of the Marielle Franco Institute, told Agência Brasil.
The inquiry is being held in secret and no details can yet be obtained about the reasons that led the Federal Police and the Superior Court of Justice to send the case to the country’s top court.
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