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.
On the promenade of Rio’s Copacabana Beach, 164 pairs of women’s shoes laid out side by side represented the victims of femicide. In the state of Rio de Janeiro, cases totaled 111 in 2022 and 53 in the first half of this year.
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.
For the first time in five decades, women are in the majority across all of Brazil’s major regions. Only the North had been missing to cement the historical trend of female predominance.
The demonstration brought 5 thousand participants from all over Brazil and other nations to Brasília to call for the end to violence against women and to stand up for the protection of their territories, biodiversity, and indigenous traditions.
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