Brazil is long ways away from solving violence against women

By Ciara Long

When Raphaella Noviski, 16, was killed earlier this month, police were at first reluctant to label her death as femicide. But the nature of the crime – she was shot eleven times in the face by a young man whose she had refused – led investigators to acknowledge gender as the case’s determining factor. “He tried to approach her, but she refused. With every refusal, he got angrier,” said Rafaela Azzi, one of...