Non-lethal violence against women increases 19% in 5 years in Brazil

Between 2018 and 2022, all forms of non-lethal violence against women increased by 19 percent in Brazil. These types of aggression include property, physical, sexual, psychological, and moral and, except for the last one, they were monitored by the Igarapé Institute, which carried out a survey on this issue in partnership with the transportation app company Uber.

According to the Igarapé Institute, incidents of non-lethal violence against women have increased by 92 percent in the last decade. The report containing this data compiled statistics from official health systems and public security agencies.

The researchers counted occurrences, indicating that the same woman may have been a victim of more than one form of violence recorded.

As the data were compiled, it was revealed that black women are the primary targets of non-lethal gender violence, regardless of the form the aggressions take. In 2018, black and brown women accounted for 52 percent of the records. Last year, they were victims in 56.5 percent of incidents.

According to the survey's organizers, last year alone, a daily average of four women were victims of femicide, which is murder motivated by hatred of the female gender, targeting women simply because they are women. In 2018, femicides accounted for approximately 27 percent of violent deaths, a figure that rose to 35 percent in 2022.

Property violence, which includes instances where the victim's partner restricts access to bank accounts or appropriates the money she earns, has seen the most significant increase in the last five years, rising by 56.4 percent. In 2022, six women out of every 100 experienced this type of violence, marking the highest rate ever recorded in the historical series compiled by the survey, which began in 2009.

The second-largest increase was in sexual violence, which rose by 45.7 percent. Over the last decade, cases of this type of aggression have doubled.

Psychological violence increased by 23.2 percent between 2018 and 2022. In this case, researchers highlight that women's partners and ex-partners are their main aggressors, accounting for more than half of the recorded incidents.

Physical violence, the most common type among the four analyzed in the study, which accounts for 53 percent of registered cases, grew by 8.3 percent in the period. In 2022 alone, more than 140,000 attacks of this type were reported, generating an average of 16 per hour.