“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.
Following the publication of a decree in September 2021 that authorizes temporary visas and residence for humanitarian reasons, many Afghans have been heading to Brazil.
"The aim of this project is to highlight social issues that often escape the attention of mainstream media and public authorities,” Rene Silva explains.
Femicide is a qualification of the crime of intentional homicide—a murder resulting from violence against women because of their sex. Last year, 1,400 women were killed countrywide