December 11, 2022
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Marcela Leiros – From Amazon Agency
MANAUS – The North Region gathers the States that concentrated the highest increase in the absolute number of feminicide cases in the Country during the first semester of four years (2019 to 2022). Rondônia (RO), Tocantins (TO) and Amapá (AP) appear with 225%, 233.3% and 200% increase, respectively, according to the report “Violence against girls and women in the first half of 2022”, of the Brazilian Forum on Public Safety.
The data have as source the police reports classified as feminicide by the Civil Police of the States and Federal District. The “Feminicide Law” (Law 13.104/2015) was introduced in the Brazilian criminal law in 2015, and provides three hypotheses for the classification of homicide: arising from domestic and family violence, due to contempt for the feminine condition, and due to discrimination against the feminine condition.
Besides the data from the three states, Acre (133.3%) and Pará (55.6%), also in the north of the country, had an increase in the number of cases of feminicide. Roraima (-50.0%) was the only state in the region that showed a reduction. The data from Amazonas are listed as “non-existent phenomenon” in the report.
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Law No. 13,104/2015 included in the list of the crime of homicide the feminicide qualifier, considered a heinous crime. The penalty is imprisonment from 12 to 30 years. With the introduction of this qualifier in the Brazilian criminal system, the minimum and maximum penalties were raised by 50%, according to the Paraná Court of Justice (TJPR).
Amazonas
Although Amazonas does not have the data available in the survey, the Civil Police informed that in 2022, until the month of November, 6,500 police enquiries of violence against women were opened only in the three Specialized Police Stations for Crimes Against Women (DECCMs) in the state. More than 14,000 police reports (BOs) were registered and 5,000 protective measures were requested and executed.
“Our work begins with the victims’ complaints. The moment the BO is registered, we begin the investigative work to guarantee the wellbeing of the woman. The complaint may result in both an IP and a request for protective measures”, says the delegate Kelene Passos.
Also according to the delegate, more than 74 preventive arrest warrants were served and approximately 500 individuals were arrested in the act. In addition, one of the highlights of the year is Operation Resguardo, launched in March, which resulted in 81 arrests and more than 1,500 women assisted.
“The numbers are positive and show the commitment of the police teams to combat crimes against women. It is worth noting that domestic violence is framed in physical, psychological and sexual violence. Next year, we hope that more women will feel encouraged and report their aggressors, so that we can guarantee the safety of each one”, he said.
Growth of cases
The survey also showed that in the first half of 2022, 699 women were victims of feminicide, an average of four women per day. This number is 3.2% higher than the total number of deaths recorded in the first half of 2021, when 677 women were murdered.
The data, according to the organisation, indicates a continuous growth in the deaths of women due to their gender since 2019. Compared to the first half of 2019, the growth in the same period of 2022 was 10 ,8%, pointing to the “necessary and urgent prioritisation of public policies to prevent and confront gender-based violence“.
Beatification
On Saturday, 10, Isabel Cristina Mrad Campos (1962-1982), a victim of feminicide, officially became the new Brazilian Blessed two years after Pope Francis recognised her martyrdom in October 2020. She was 20 years old when she was killed in Juiz de Fora (MG) by a man who was working on assembling a wardrobe in her house and tried to rape her.
The ceremony in recognition of her martyrdom was held in Barbacena (MG). She was born on 29 July 1962, in Barbacena, and was the daughter of a very religious family. The young woman had moved to Juiz de Fora to take pre-vestibular courses in order to try to study medicine at a university.
On September 1, 1982, the man hired to provide services in the flat where she lived with her brother tried to rape her, but she resisted. She had her clothes torn off, was beaten, bound and gagged before being killed with 15 stab wounds.
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