Communicated on the eve of International Women's Rights Day, the figure is dizzying and particularly alarming.
The number of rapes of women in Brazil rose 3.7 percent in 2021 from a year earlier, with 56,098 cases recorded, or one rape every ten minutes, according to a report released 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.
Only the tip of the iceberg
"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.
“Despite a slight decline in the number of femicides, the figures remain very high,” she points out, with a femicide mortality rate of 1.22 per 100,000 women.
Above all, these figures represent only the tip of the iceberg.
The report, based on complaints collected in police stations, only concerns declared rapes.
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 stay confined to their homes at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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