An act against feminicide marked this Sunday morning (1st) the inauguration, in the capital of São Paulo, of a mural measuring more than 140 meters in honor of Tainara Souza Santos, 31 years old, victim of feminicide, in November 2025. The work was painted by graffiti artists and visual artists. The event also inaugurated the federal government’s official program in reference to International Women’s Day, celebrated on March 8. 
The location of the mural, on Marginal Tietê, in Parque Novo Mundo, north of the city, is the same place where Tainara was run over and dragged by Douglas Alves da Silva, aged 26, on November 29 last year. After the attack, the woman was hospitalized with serious injuries, had to have both legs amputated and died on December 24th as a result of her injuries.
The act pays tribute to the memory of Tainara Souza Santos, 31 years old, who died after being run over and dragged by her ex-partner in São Paulo – Photo Paulo Pinto/Agência Brasil
The event was attended by social movements, trade unions, residents of the Parque Novo Mundo community and parliamentarians. Ministers Márcia Souza, of Women, Marina Silva, of Environment and Climate Change, Sonia Guajajara, of Indigenous Peoples, and the Minister of Agrarian Development and Family Farming, Paulo Teixeira, also participated.
“We will look at that wall painted by graffiti artists and say: this is the wall of restoration, of repair, it is the wall of transformation of our lives, it is the wall that will be marked in this territory by what happened as a lesson. Will we have the courage to ask every boy, every girl, every young man, every man, what is happening?” said Márcia Souza.
Minister Marina Silva highlighted the number of women murdered daily and reinforced the need to combat feminicide. “What we are doing here is an act in defense of life, an act in defense of the dignity of all women. We have the murder of four women every day. There are around 1,500 women who are murdered every year and this is something that needs to be fought by all people, by the entire society, in all places, at all times”, he stated.
Act in honor of the memory of Tainara Souza Santos, victim of feminicide in São Paulo, marks the beginning of the celebrations of International Women’s Day – Photo Paulo Pinto/Agência Brasil
Tainara’s mother, Lúcia Aparecida da Silva, paid tribute to her daughter and spoke about the pain of loss. “She was a young woman full of life who was taken from me in a way that you saw for yourself, by a monster. She was run over, dragged, trapped under a car, looking like a bag of garbage, an animal. She lost both legs, had no skin on her back, no buttocks. Guys, that’s it. [o agressor] is not a human being.”
