GCRF_NF123: COVID-19, social distancing and violence against women in Brazil (BRAVE)

针对妇女的家庭暴力是巴西的一个主要问题。它往往不成比例地影响弱势背景的妇女，使她们面临更高的贫困风险，并可能加剧基于性别的不平等。评论人士将巴西为应对COVID-19传播而采取的社会距离措施与DVAW病例的大幅增加联系起来，其他国家也有类似的报告。预计巴西的COVID-19病例将继续增加，可能导致在不久的将来采取进一步的社会距离措施，这使得我们的研究迫切需要了解政策如何能够更好地保护弱势妇女并减少这些措施对社会的更广泛影响。BRAVE试图了解社会距离措施如何影响DVAW，并评估这种影响所产生的社会成本。为此，我们将以巴西城市为重点，分析关于“消除妇女歧视”的信息及其与遵守社会距离、贫困和“消除妇女歧视”对受害者和社会造成的财务成本之间的联系。我们还将研究旨在减轻社交距离负面后果的公共政策如何影响DVAW，以及如何改进这些政策以更好地解决DVAW问题。我们将与当地学术界以及公共组织和其他组织的代表密切合作，为巴西以及可能的其他国家提供指导，以改进在大流行病背景下针对暴力侵害妇女行为受害者的公共政策。

Domestic violence against women (DVAW) is a major issue in Brazil. It tends to disproportionally affect women of disadvantaged backgrounds, putting them at a higher risk of poverty and potentially increasing gender-based inequities. Commentators have linked social distancing measures introduced in Brazil to address the spread of COVID-19 to significant increases in DVAW cases, with similar reports in other countries. COVID-19 cases in Brazil are forecast to keep increasing, likely leading to further social distancing measures in the near future, making our research urgent to understand how policies can better protect vulnerable women and reduce the broader impacts of these measures to society.BRAVE seeks to understand how social distancing measures affect DVAW and assess the resulting societal costs of such effect. To this end, we will analyse information on DVAW and its link to social distancing adherence, poverty and the financial cost of DVAW to victims and society, focusing on Brazilian cities. We will also examine how public policies aimed at mitigating the negative consequences of social distancing influence DVAW, and how these policies could be refined to better address DVAW. We will work closely with both the local academic community and representatives of public and other organisations, to offer guidance to improve public policies for DVAW victims in the pandemic context, for Brazil and potentially other countries.