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Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro was covered Monday by 420 red and white pairs of women’s underwear in protest of violence against women. That number was chosen by non-governmental organization Rio de Paz, which organized the public display to represent the estimated 420 women who are raped every 72 hours in Brazil. That totals around 50,000 rapes per year. “There are almost 50,000 cases a year, within the context that these are under-reported. It is suspected that this 50,000 corresponds to 10 percent of the cases which actually take place,” said Antonio Carlos Costa, founder of Rio de Paz, according to teleSUR. Brazil has seen a number of protests nationwide after a 16-year-old girl was allegedly gang raped by 33 men. A cell phone video of the attack has been released by Brazilian police. Read more here: http://www.sunherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article82343957.html#storylink=cpy The teenager was raped by multiple men on a dirty mattress in a tiny room, known in the favela Morro da Barao as “the slaughterhouse.” The crime came to light after the aggressors themselves, sure of impunity, posted videos and images of themselves handling the unconscious victim, laughing and joking about her bruised genitalia and the fact that “more than 30” men had just raped her. Social media commentators, some reporters and even police officers were quick to assume the girl was lying about being raped, and that “she was no saint.” Little wonder that only 35 per cent of rapes in Brazil are reported, and yet statistics from the Brazil Public Security Yearbook’s most recent report indicate that one person is raped every 11 minutes here. One of the gang-rape suspects, Rai de Souza, 22, told a local newspaper that he had done nothing wrong: the girl was “so unconscious,” he said, but had consensual sex with him – and he didn’t film her, he just “watched and laughed” while his friends did. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/gang-rape-reveals-brazils-shocking-attitudes-toward-women/article30260584/
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