Public-Space Femicide Exposes Control in Brazil as 2025 Toll Remains High

Overview

• FBSP data show 64.3% of feminicides happened in victims’ homes in 2024 and 21.2% in public spaces, while São Paulo recorded 53 public cases and 207 total deaths from January to October 2025.
• Specialists say attacks in streets and workplaces are used to reassert power and a perceived ‘honor,’ with breakups flagged as a particularly dangerous trigger.
• Experts describe frequent overkill and blame-shifting by perpetrators, noting that pervasive cameras and witnesses have not deterred the violence.
• Piauí logged more than 30 feminicides by early December, including a case in Esperantina where a woman was killed four days after requesting an emergency protective order; the partner suspected in the attack was arrested.
• Law 14.717/2023 grants a one–minimum-wage pension to children orphaned by feminicide, and prosecutors and advocates urge Senate approval of the Estatuto da Vítima to guarantee integrated psychosocial and legal support.