Campaign Launched to Reduce Killings in World Homicide Leader Brazil

Several human rights groups and think tanks on Monday launched a campaign to drastically reduce homicides in Brazil, the world leader in absolute number of annual killings. In 2015, the last year for which comparative numbers are available, 56,212 people were killed in Brazil, according to the Igarape Institute think tank, which draws data from the United Nations data and governments around the world. That is more than countries like China and India, which have much larger...

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