"In 2022, the year of one of the toughest elections in Brazil, the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji, by its Portuguese acronym) registered 557 cases of aggression against press members, 26% involving some type – more or less explicit – of gender violence. Of this group, 5% were categorized as episodes of sexual violence, with 57.1% taking place on the internet. The data comes from the monitoring of general attacks and gender violence against the press carried out by Abraji, in partnership with the Latin American network Voces del Sur (VdS).
Last year, the monitoring considered as sexual violence cases of rape threats as well as online and offline harassment. There were seven such episodes throughout 2022 – that means that, in seven different situations, journalists were victims of sexual aggressions while trying to do their job.
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Data from Abraji show that in 97% of the gender-based aggressions recorded in 2022, the victims were women, either cis or trans, and 58.2% happened or had repercussions on the internet. [...] All victims of sexual aggressions recorded last year were women."
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