RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil: An average of four women per day were murdered for gender reasons in Brazil in 2023, according to a research published on Thursday ahead of International Women’s Day.
Brazilian Public Security Forum (FBSP) NGO compiled data from police records and found that there were 1,463 murders of women last year, a 1.6 percent increase compared to 2022.
The data has been gathered since 2015, when the nation passed a law defining femicide as murder “caused by domestic or family violence due to the condition of the female sex.” Since then, 10,655 women have been victims of this crime.
“We cannot normalize the deaths of more than 10,000 women murdered in less than a decade just because they are women,” said the director of FBSP, Samira Bueno, in a statement.
“This topic has been the object of numerous debates by civil society, but this is not enough to reduce the number of these crimes committed each day in Brazil.”
A year ago, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced a series of measures on International Women’s Day to combat “intolerable physical violence against women.”
These include increased funding for women’s shelters and the resumption of monitoring programmes to prevent the recurrence of domestic violence.
