CRIME & SECURITY Report: January saw 28 victims of gender-based violence 10-02-2025 18:34 Buenos Aires Province remains the region with the most femicide cases in the country, followed by Santa Fe, Mendoza and CABA.
POLITICS Government wants to remove femicide from Argentina's Penal Code 24-01-2025 15:48 President Javier Milei's government wants to strip femicide from Argentina's Penal Code, eliminate non-binary IDs and remove quotas for disabled and trans people.
WOMEN'S RIGHTS Brazil introduces law increasing femicide sentences to 40 years 11-10-2024 12:42 Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signs into law a bill that makes femicide a separate criminal offence with potential sentence of up to 40 years behind bars.
CRIME & SECURITY Chaco: Cecilia Strzyzowski femicide case sent to trial 01-05-2024 10:26 Former partner César Sena, his parents Emiliano Sena and Marcela Acuña, and four assistants of powerful local picket-leader, look set to face trial by jury.
8M Rally 'We will be a tsunami' – Green tide fills streets surrounding Congress on 8M 09-03-2024 19:48 Thousands of women of all ages demonstrated near Congress to make their slogans against sexist violence heard. by Sabrina Chemen
#8M: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY Cecilia Palmeiro: ‘Feminism is a space of resistance and social transformation’ 08-03-2024 06:10 Professor, activist and founding member of Ni Una Menos movement reflects on challenges facing women in Argentina and her hopes for the future.
CRIME & SECURITY Femicide in Berazategui: 33-year-old woman stabbed 24 times 12-02-2024 11:21 Mother-of-four María Belén Muñoz, 33, stabbed 24 times by partner in brutal killing; Accused Alejandro Albornoz, 34, has confessed to crime. He had been denounced for domestic violence by his own mother.
GENDER VIOLENCE Femicides up as Milei seeks to weaken protections 13-01-2024 22:18 Argentina registered 322 femicides in 2023, a figure equivalent to almost one murder a day, according to government data.
DISAPPEARANCE OF CECILIA STRZYZOWKI Cecilia Strzyzowski's mother and sister say they're leaving Chaco 13-09-2023 14:55 Both Ángela Strzyzowski and Gloria Romero, missing 28-year-old’s sister and mother, have been living under police protection since she disappeared in early June in Resistencia; Investigators believe she was slain by her husband and his parents.
DISAPPEARANCE OF CECILIA STRZYZOWKI Expert report: Bones thought to belong to Cecilia Strzyzowski were burnt 05-09-2023 13:48 Investigators into the disappearance of Cecilia Strzyzowski in Resistencia told bones believed to belong to the victim were burnt for at least three hours before being dumped in a river.
CRIME & SECURITY Cecilia Strzyzowski: Victim’s blood found on Sena family mattress 13-07-2023 14:11 Key breakthrough in case investigating disappearance of 28-year-old in Chaco Province; DNA testing on mattress, furniture from Sena family home indicate victim’s blood.