News of femicide

What we learned this week: February 6 to 13

13-02-2021 10:32 Our pick of the stories from the last seven days in Argentina.

Protesters demand action after brutal murder of teenager

13-02-2021 10:04 19-year-old Úrsula Bahillo found brutally stabbed to death. She had previously denounced her suspected killer, former boyfriend and Buenos Aires Province police officer Matías Ezequiel Martínez.

Victims, feminists take over Mexico human rights office

09-09-2020 08:49 Demanding justice for victims of femicide, gender violence, sexual assault, and forced disappearances, feminist activists and victims' relatives have taken over the offices of Mexico's Human Rights Commission.

Feminist organisation: one femicide every 29 hours in Argentina

02-07-2020 16:32 Feminist organisation Mumalá recorded at least 143 femicides in Argentina during the first six months of 2020, according to new report.

Campaigners renew call for ‘Ni Una Menos,’ five years on

06-06-2020 10:05 The annual march, which is normally attended by tens of thousands of people, first took place in 2015 as huge crowds came together to mobilse against femicide and gender violence.

Domestic abuse victim who killed her husband demands justice

29-04-2020 14:00 Paula Córdoba suffered 20 years of domestic abuse, and killed her husband in 2019 with her daughter’s help, stabbing him 185 times in the process. She's now free, but she feels like the State has abandoned her, she explains.

by Nadia Galán

61-year-old woman killed; 28-year-old girl found dead after beating

04-03-2020 16:03 61-year-old Monica Edith Ramos was killed in her San Luis home on Tuesday, the same day 28-year-old Jordana Belén Rivero died after falling from a building in Mar del Plata after being beaten.

19-year-old in police custody after killing girlfriend, burning body

02-03-2020 15:16 19-year-old Naim Vera surrenders to police after remains of his 24-year-old girlfriend, Brenda Micaela Gordillo, found. In an attempt to cover up crime, he allegedly burnt the victim's body on a parrilla.

Former Frente de Todos candidate killed by husband in femicide

20-12-2019 18:15 Laura Sirera, who ran to be a councillor earlier this year in Pilar, found dead after attack police believe was carried out by her husband, who later attempted to commit suicide.

Chilean battle-cry against sexual violence goes viral

05-12-2019 15:42 In the wake of national social unrest and rising femicides across the region, protesters in Santiago perform rendition of a feminist anthem making waves across the world.

Concern rises after Argentina sees four femicides in just one weekend

16-09-2019 17:08 Campaigners demand action after women were found dead in Neuquén, Chascomus, Santa Fe and Lomas de Zamora in just 48 hours. At least 178 femicides have been recorded in Argentina since the turn of the year.

Mexicans march in silence to demand safety and justice for women

09-09-2019 07:28 Hundreds of women have taken to the streets of Mexico City to demand justice for loved ones, girls and countless women who have been sexually assaulted, murdered or gone missing in one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be a female.