News of femicide

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.

News of femicide

Report: January saw 28 victims of gender-based violence

Government wants to remove femicide from Argentina's Penal Code

Brazil introduces law increasing femicide sentences to 40 years

Chaco: Cecilia Strzyzowski femicide case sent to trial

'We will be a tsunami' – Green tide fills streets surrounding Congress on 8M

Cecilia Palmeiro: ‘Feminism is a space of resistance and social transformation’

Femicide in Berazategui: 33-year-old woman stabbed 24 times

Femicides up as Milei seeks to weaken protections

The end of Milei’s single-issue government

Doctors and university staff stage protest against Milei vetoes

Peso posts sharpest weekly fall since Milei took office

Milei gets his comeuppance

How Milei raised the bar and paid the price in Buenos Aires Province

Murió Matías Travizano, el físico y emprendedor que abrió Silicon Valley a Javier Milei

La Suizo Argentina de los Kovalivker y las presuntas coimas: aparecieron nuevos documentos registrales

Macri íntimo: sin gestos para LLA, en alerta por la economía y un crudo análisis de la crisis política

La cifra millonaria que ganó Canelo Álvarez pese a la derrota frente a Terence Crawford

Nueve segundos que vale la pena ver: Oblique Seville es el nuevo campeón mundial de los 100 metros