According to the executive director of the Gender Observatory, Delma Monteiro, since the beginning of the confinement the NGO is conducting the campaign "Quarantine without violence".
"It began in the quarantine period and is now continuing in this period of social isolation. We want to call for less violence and also for the police to provide an emergency number for victims to call," Delma Monteiro said in a statement to the Lusa agency.
Last week, four reports of domestic violence were filed through social networks, in which the victims were women and children.
Delma Monteiro said many situations of violence are happening "because people are at home and, in fact, families are not used to managing the family tensions in the home".
"People come home after a day tired from work, children are on one side doing chores, the wife is always connected to domestic chores and the husband is watching the news. Now that they don't have the maids at home, now that the children are not going to school, there is a tendency to take the pressure off the weakest, who are usually the children and the women," she added.
"The man is no longer very happy to be from morning till night in front of the television, having to listen to the children's cries, because the child can't go to the street in order not to expose himself, the wife having to be dealing with all the household issues, the cleaning, the kitchen and everything else, getting saturated too", the gender activist described.
So, according to Delma Monteiro, this is "blowing up the violence, because people haven't learned how to deal with the tensions in the home and the street has always been an outlet".
"We want to make an appeal to the National Police to make available a number of victims of domestic violence, who are mostly women and children, who are suffering violence at home with their spouses and who have no way of being rescued," she added.
Delma Monteira believes that with this new reality, there are many people who will be able to live together, rebuild their family relationships, "redesign" themselves, but there is also a great possibility, as is happening in other countries, such as Brazil, of increasing the number of divorces and families away.
"I think it was important to keep in mind that, in fact, there is a whole problem surrounding the situation of confinement that must be taken into account," she stressed.
The country has been in a state of emergency since Friday, which can be extended until 11 April, with a ban on people and vehicles on public roads and a specific timetable for the sale of food, among the measures.
