Femicides grow 10% in the country in the 1st half of 2022 and reach 699 victims

What is femicide?

Femicide is the term used to describe murders of women committed based on gender. In other words, when the victim is killed simply because she is a woman. But what does this crime mean, exactly? Is every murder of a woman considered femicide? O Curto News explains it to you.

The data is part of a study carried out by the Brazilian Public Security Forum, which gathered criminal statistics on gender-based and intra-family violence from the first half of the last four years. The numbers evolved from 631 femicides in 2019 to 664 in 2020, 677 in 2021 and 699 in 2022.

The survey also collected data on rape, which identified more than 29 thousand victims of this type of crime in the first six months of the year. Over four years, considering only the first semesters, 112 thousand women were raped in the country.

By region, the biggest increases in feminicides in the last four years they happened in the North (75%), Central-West (8,6%) and Northeast (1%). Only the South region saw a drop of 1,7%.

By State, the biggest increases were in Rondônia (225%), Tocantins (233,3%) and Amapá (200%). Another 13 states had an increase in cases, while 11 showed a reduction, the biggest of which were in Roraima (-50%), Distrito Federal (-42,9%) and Rio Grande do Norte (-35,7%).

Fewer resources

The study pointed out that, despite the constant growth in records of feminicides, the resources invested by the federal government to combat this violence against women have decreased drastically.

In 2022, only R$5 million was allocated to combat the violence against women, the smallest transfer of resources in the last four years, according to technical note produced by the Institute of Socioeconomic Studies (Inesc).

(To Estadão Content)

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