Brazil hits record number of femicides in the first half of the year, while resources for combating violence against women have been cut.

247 - Brazil recorded 699 cases of femicide, an average of four deaths per day, in the first half of this year. This number, the highest ever recorded in a single semester, coincides with the lowest volume of resources allocated to policies combating violence against women by the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government.

According to the G1Data from the Brazilian Public Security Forum highlights that "compared to 2019, the increase was 10,8%, 'pointing to the necessary and urgent prioritization of public policies for the prevention and confrontation of gender violence'." The increase in relation to the first half of 2021 was 3,2%, when 677 women were murdered.

According to the report, the Northern Region registered the highest growth in femicide cases in the first half of the last four years (755). "The Central-West region also had significant growth, with a 29,9% increase between 2019 and 2022," G1 points out. 

In parallel with the increase in violence against women, the resources invested by the Bolsonaro government in policies for the sector were systematically reduced. According to the report, over the four years of his administration, the federal government "proposed 94% less resources in the Union Budget for specific policies to combat violence against women than in the four years immediately preceding it."

According to a survey conducted by the Institute of Socioeconomic Studies (Inesc), "between 2020 and 2023, the years encompassing the budget proposals sent to Congress by the current administration, R$ 22,96 million were allocated to specific policies (earmarked funds) to combat violence against women. In the four previous years, that is, in the budgets from 2016 to 2019 (which were not submitted by Bolsonaro), these resources totaled R$ 366,58 million. The decrease was 94%."

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