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.
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
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.
A new law guarantees a benefit equal to one minimum wage for children under the age of 18 from low-income families who have lost their mothers to femicide.
The president attended the closing ceremony of the march in Brasília. Before 100 thousand women, he recalled the death of Margarida Alves, the rural worker who was shot dead outside her home in 1983. The event is named after her and takes place every four years.
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