Violência contra a mulher e feminicídio no Brasil - impacto do isolamento social pela COVID-19

Violence against women is a public health problem, which has the most serious consequence of femicide. According to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), about 35% of women suffer sexual violence, whether by their intimate partners or not. The beginning of the year 2020 was marked by the emergence of the new Coronavirus and the rapid spread of COVID-19 by several countries and continents, having been declared by the World Health Organization, a pandemic. Seeking to contain this disease, the governments of several nations, including Brazil, opted for social distancing, forcing families to stay in their homes for a long period of time. In this context, many women are subject to staying longer with their partners, resulting in an increase in violence rates. This work aimed to carry out a bibliographic survey of the theme "violence against women", with the intention of establishing relationships between facts and occurrences of violence against women with the social isolation established with the complication of COVID-19 in Brazil. According to data from the Brazilian Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights, the number of calls to 180, which receives reports of violence against women, increased by approximately 9%