Discouraging hate crimes related to gender in developing countries

Discouraging Hate Crimes Related to Gender in Developing Countries

Hate crimes related to gender happen frequently all over the world but most of the times are ignored and overlooked by society as a whole. Even though civil equality and rights amongst different genders are being balanced and have started to be guaranteed, many places still suffer from high levels of hatred, aversion, phobia and negligence, especially underdeveloped and developing countries, where a large portion of society has lack of education and information due to social and economic inequality. Therefore, we have decided as a group to undertake this project from this point of view, trying to understand and help those who might suffer from either ignorance or violence, depending on which side of the crime the person is.
Coming from a developing country, I have seen and dealt with situations that reflect this type of behaviour and thinking that many people might not know and even misbelieve and being able to debate and deliberate about it and also being able to position myself, yet hypothetically, in different perspectives, made me able to think broadly about issues that are often forgotten.
After choosing a specific geographic position within the previously mentioned category, in this case Brazil, where the issue is prominent and current, being confirmed by online research, we started to create personas for both victims and criminals in order to understand contexts, backgrounds, thinking, points of view, motivations and any other factor that might contribute to the crime itself, whether being from the criminal or the victim’s perspective. By following this path, we were able to expand possibilities and think more profoundly about the issues related to it.
Unfortunately, many people are killed just due to their sexuality and the high number of victims made us narrow it down to the most neglected portion of victims, the transgender ones, in order to get as deep as possible. Poorly