November 25 defines the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, where activists in Brazil demand greater governmental actions against femicide, a fact that has registered about 1,400 femicides last year 2022 in the nation. teleSUR
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00:00 November 25th is the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against
00:05 Women in Recife, Brazil, a group of women, union and social movement activists gathered
00:10 to demand an end to femicide.
00:12 Our correspondent, Bram Meir, has the details.
00:15 2022 marked the worst year in Brazil's history for femicide.
00:20 Fourteen hundred women were murdered by their partners.
00:24 Across the country on today's International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women,
00:29 groups are gathering to say enough is enough.
00:31 Here in Recife, the Feminist Uprising Against Femicide, a campaign led by union members
00:38 and social movement activists, is demanding that the government do more to offer integrated
00:44 services for victims of domestic violence and women who are at risk of femicide 24 hours
00:50 a day in every of the 5,000 counties in the country.
00:54 Here in Pernambuco, some innovative things have been done.
00:58 They've created women's police stations that deal with cases of domestic violence that
01:02 are entirely staffed by women.
01:04 But what the activists here are saying that it doesn't matter for most of the women in
01:08 the state because they only have 15 of them and they're mostly concentrated in the Recife
01:13 area and not in the other 171 counties across the state.
01:18 And this is characteristic of almost all of the programs that were created to help women
01:23 who are under threat of femicide and who are dealing with domestic violence issues.
01:28 Down with femicide, down with domestic violence.
01:31 They're demanding the government do more to prevent further cases of this from happening.
01:36 (audience laughing)