The number of rapes of women in Brazil increased by 3.7% in 2021 compared to the previous year, with 56,098 cases recorded, or one rape every ten minutes, according to a report published on Monday.
Brazil also recorded 1,319 feminicides last year, or one woman killed every seven hours, a slight decrease of 2.7% compared to 2020, according to this report published by the NGO Public Security Forum at the eve of International Women’s Day.
“These data show the need for the urgent implementation of public policies of reception, prevention and repression in the face of violence against women in Brazil”, declared Samira Bueno, director of the NGO, quoted in a press release. .
“Despite a slight decline in the number of feminicides, the numbers remain very high,” she points out, with a femicide mortality rate of 1.22 per 100,000 women.
The report, based on complaints collected at police stations, concerns only reported rapes, only a fraction of all rapes committed against women.
It also shows that the number of feminicides particularly increased from February to May 2020, “at the height of the restrictive measures” which pushed Brazilians to remain confined to their homes at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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