Brazil and the Abuse on Women
Essay by review • February 10, 2011 • Essay • 260 Words (2 Pages) • 1,245 Views
In Brazil every 15 min a women is being abused, it is sad that women of brazil have no rights. The women and children of brazil are seen as trash. The women are beaten so bad that there children run away from home and become "street kids". These street kids then turn to life of hustling and crime. The young girls go out here and look for work and end up traped in world they were not expecting, they end up at bordelos think that they were going to work for a cafe or a hotel. The women and children of brazil have lost souls that have no one to speak up for them. these are some of the crimes against women: bodly injury 26.2%, threats 14.4% rape1.8%, murder .5%, other 60%. The numbers that I just read off wre just from the late 1990-2000. The women and children in brazil are a target by the military police. They murder these inicent children, one famous incident was the "Candelaria Massacre", which took it's name from the church outside of which victims were sleeping, it was committed by a death squad made of mostly military officers, targeted mainly at street children. Several of those officers have been convicted and sentenced. Hears some more information on the numbers of domestic violence;66.3 percent of those accused of murding women in 1995 and 1996 were husbands or companions of the victims, according to the study by the National human rights movment. Help give a voice to the women and children of brazil
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