It is as widespread as the nation's beloved soccer, which is played everywhere from rural provinces to dense slums and metropolitan towns. There are no winners, only victims in Brazil's epidemic of violence against girls and women.
Only last month a video of a teenage Brazilian girl being sexually assaulted by several men emerged on social media and laid bare the vastly unreported violence that blights the lives of thousands of girls and women in the country every day.
As the Latin American nation proudly hosts the world's biggest sporting event – the Rio 2016 Olympics - girls and women are demanding that their voices are heard.
