The decline—from 8% in the second quarter to 7.7% in the third quarter this year—was mainly driven by the decline in São Paulo state, where the index fell from 7.8% to 7.1% in the period.
An unprecedented study by the Bahia School of Law, the Jus Brasil legal portal, and the UNDP looked at 107 lower court rulings from 2010 to 2022 involving offenses against black people on social media.
Some 19 million Brazilians are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or asexual, says a study published by the State University of São Paulo in Nature Scientific Reports.
Created in 2006, the Maria da Penha Law introduced protection measures to curb domestic violence against women, including the establishment of domestic violence courts.
Women's entrepreneurship is reported to have shown signs of recovery in the last quarter of last year after plunging in the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic.