Criminal injustice
Subtitle: violence against women in Brazil.
Contributors: Human Rights Watch (Organization); Women's Rights Project (Human Rights Watch)
Series: An Americas Watch report
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 70
Subjects: Women -- Crimes against -- Brazil.; Women's rights -- Brazil.; Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Brazil.; Violence -- Brazil.
Description: The Brazilian government is failing to prosecute violence against women in the home fully and fairly. Despite ever-increasing domestic violence-particularly wife-murder, battery and rape-impunity and discriminatory treatment in favor of the perpetrators of domestic violence are still the rule in the Brazilian justice system.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
On cover: WRP, Women's Rights Project [and] Americas Watch, a division of Human Rights Watch.