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Between 10 and 15 women are murdered each day in Brazil. [22] [23] A government sponsored study found that 41,532 women were murdered in Brazil between 1997 and 2007. [23] In 2012, only 8% of all homicide victims were female. This is far below the male victimization rate, in which men constitute 92% of homicide victims in Brazil as of 2012. [24]
Brazil is a State Party to the Protocol of the American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty, which was ratified on August 13, 1996. According to international law, the "application of the death penalty in time of war pursuant to a conviction for a serious crime of a military nature committed during wartime" is admissible.
Garimpeiros (illegal gold miners) killed Yanomami people Candelária massacre: 1993 July 23 Rio de Janeiro: 8 Police massacre 8 homeless people. Vigário Geral massacre: 1993 August 29 Rio de Janeiro 21 Rio Military Police attack random people in retribution for being attacked by gangs. Paar killings 1995 May 29 Ananindeua, Pará
Latin America's largest nation had 203,062,512 inhabitants in August 2022, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IGBE) said, 6.5% higher than the last census in 2010 but below the ...
2-13 May – 2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods: At least 147 people are killed from flooding caused by heavy rains in Rio Grande do Sul.At least 127 others are listed as missing and 372 injured, while more than two million people in the state are affected and 600,000 others displaced.
Brazil's penal system has long relied on cheap prison labor in its overcrowded, under-funded jails, with inmates cooking, cleaning and maintaining quarters in return for about 748 reals ($145 ...
For the Netherlands, based on overall excess mortality, an estimated 20,000 people died from COVID-19 in 2020, [10] while only the death of 11,525 identified COVID-19 cases was registered. [9] The official count of COVID-19 deaths as of December 2021 is slightly more than 5.4 million, according to World Health Organization's report in May 2022 ...
Criminal groups set at least 35 buses on fire in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro on Monday, according to the industry group that represents bus companies, after police killed a crime boss in ...