Role model: In the Brazilian state of Pernambuco the "Pact for Life" has, in five years, lowered the homicide rate by 42%.
In 2007 Pernambuco had the tragic privilege of being at the top of the list for crime among the Brazil’s states. Due to the ‘Pact for Life’, a safety plan established by Governor Eduardo Henrique Campos at the beginning of his term in that year, the murder rate (59 violent deaths per 100,000 people) fell by 42%.