Sad reality... Triste realidade...
The rates of violence against women are alarming throughout the world, it is difficult to see that in the middle of the XXI century these events still happen around the world. In the world ranking, the 10 countries with the highest numbers of femicides are: 1º El Salvador, 2º Colombia, 3º Guatemala, 4º Russia, 5º Brazil, 6º Mexico, 7º Moldova, 8º Suriname, 9º Latvia and 10º Puerto Rico. (Source: Google)
Here in Brazil was created by law the law No. 11,340 on August 7, 2006, a law to protect against domestic crimes committed against women, which covers other types of violence such as physical, psychological, patrimonial, moral, etc. Years, a law that was popularly known as the "Lei Maria da Penha", which was created after the real fact that victim Maria da Penha Fernades victimized domestic violence for almost 23 years (the author's report) by her husband, who First attempt to kill her shot while she slept, leaving her paraplegic, in the second attempt tried to electrocute her, (1983) It was from then on that Maria da Penha took the courage to denounce the aggressor. In this period most women felt insecure to expose the violence they suffered for fear of reprisal because there was no specific law to protect crimes against women, the offender when punished was mild because women themselves Waived the complaint, but after the law came into force after the long 20 years that led to the end of the trial that became law, the author even giving up the process continues until it is judged ...
The woman to the victim of such violence has severe consequences throughout life, one of them is the loss of their identity that only through psychological medical treatments is able to regain self-esteem with support also from friends and family.
Justice is the only weapon of defense of women in the fight against violence, of whatever type. The woman is an example of the post but violence covers so many areas, as a crime against the child that is another aggravating factor, we hope that these facts become smaller in statistics, it would end up being the goal but we are talking about behaviors and against this the beginning and the end Are unpredictable ...
What every woman expects of life independent of social classes is freedom to come and go, to express their wills and rights, to love and to be loved. Because there is no violence more devastating than that suffered by someone who one day we choose to love ...
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