While the focus was on the U.S., this situation is also all too familiar in Brazil. In fact, according to a survey conducted in June that year, around eight out of ten respondents believed cases similar to George Floyd’s were frequent in Brazil, with over half of Brazilians surveyed ...
This research analyzes trajectories of rights violations at the intersections of impoverishment, racism and patriarchal violence against mothers and sisters of young Black women murdered in Cear谩, a state in Northeastern Brazil. The persistence and protagonism of these women are documented through ...
摘要: Before 2006, Brazil did not have a criminal law against domestic violence. However, cases of domestic violence were often tried in the Special Court under Law 9,099/95. Common punishments for domestic violence crimes included donation of food baskets to charity or...
Sexual violence should be a matter of concern for everyone, particularly for health services in charge of providing care for women, because of its high level of occurrence, which is higher than suspected, and also because of the dramatic consequences it can have for women victims of aggression....
Besides, violence already exists in the Latin America continent today, but it is a negative violence, a counterrevolutionary violence. Such violence takes the form of dying of old age at twenty-eight in Brazil’s Northeast. Or it is the Bolivian woman who feeds only three of...
Current intimate partner violence (IPV) in Ethiopia is considerably high. This study aimed at determining the prevalence of IPV among a panel of pregnant women during their index pregnancy and identify its correlates using Performance Monitoring for acti
12 January 2018: Amelia Blake, 22, was killed whist travelling in Australia by her boyfriend, Brazil Gurung, 33, who also killed himself. Amelia was strangled and suffered blunt force trauma to her face and head. An inquest into her death ruled that the manner of death was ‘homicide durin...
Cross-sectional study in municipalities of central Colombia and north-eastern Brazil Despite the fragmentation of healthcare provision being considered one of the main obstacles to attaining effective health care in Latin America, very litt... I Vargas,I Garcia-Subirats,AS Mogollón-Pérez,... - ...
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Staged in a city surrounded by staggering natural beauty, the 2016 Olympics were designed to showcase Brazil’s achievements. Yet the post-games reality has been the opposite. Beset by corruption, a slumping economy and a surge in violent crime, Rio de Janeiro has become the most striking sy...