Tackling Brazil's rape epidemic: activists see little hope in a country where a woman is raped 'every 11 minutes' | Americas | News | The Independent
A study by the Brasilia-based Institute for Applied Economic Research
drawing on data from 2013 says a woman in Brazil is raped every 11
minutes, though the number is likely to be higher, its authors admitted,
because so few of them report the crimes. The reason is fear - fear
that they will suffer reprisals, that the ‘macho’ police will have no
interest in pursuing their cases or that they will be exposed to further
humiliation by being labeled the guilty party for somehow egging their
attackers on.
